Guido de Columnis, Historia Destructionis Troiae

This 14th century parchment manuscript preserves the "History of the destruction of Troy" by Guido de Columnis for posterity. Its miniatures crafted by Giustino da Forlì portray the most important scenes of the Trojan War against a background of the Gothic architecture of Venice. The margins of the manuscript reveal written traces of the collaborative efforts of the copyist and the illuminator: the scribe made notes in Venetian dialect.