Rustic code

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The Rustic Code takes its name from his writer Marco di Bartolomeo Rustici. The exact title of the manuscript is Demonstration of the passage of the Holy Sepulchre. The volume has a parchment binding and the front and rear plate measures cm. 41.8 x 28.6. It is preserved in the Major Archbishop's Seminary of Cestello in Florence, where it was brought by Monsignor Antonio dell'Ogna in 1813.

History and description
Several are the assumptions of dating of the Code and travel to Terrasanta of the author. The years proposed by several scholars were 1425, 1433, 1441-1442, after 1444, 1448-1450.

Demonstration is divided into three parts.
The first book consists of 169 chapters and 80 cards (1r-80r). Treat of Florence and its territory. The description of the churches, monasteries, hospitals inside the walls is located from 6v and 79r; those outside Florence from 79r to 80r.

The second book contains 63 chapters of 82 cards (80v-161v). It is about the journey from Florence to Porto Pisano and Genoa, then along the Italian peninsula, the coasts of Greece, in the Aegean Sea and in Cyprus. Marco Rustici is in the company of Maestro Leale dei Servi di Maria della Santissima Annunziata di Firenze and Antonio di Bartolomeo dei Ridolfi always in Florence.

The third book includes 73 chapters and 120 cards (161v-281v). The ship trip of Rustici and his companions resumes from Famagosta, along Africa to Egypt and the port of "Tenesi" on the Nile Delta. From Cairo, Rustics and comrades continue in caravans with camels to Mount Sinai and the monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai. After a stop, they resume their journey to Jerusalem, Beirut and Damascus, passing through Samaria and Galilee. The return home is not described. The code ends with the eulogy of Florence "scudo d'Italia" and the index.

' The purpose of the Rustici – writes L. Gai – is to compose a devotional work, above all, but also a text where, above the support of the real plot of the journey, the fundamental elements of Western scientia are grafted into a whole humanistic and Florentine dimension."

Bibliography
L. Gai. "The Demonstration of the journey or journey of the Holy Sepulchre" by Bartolommeo Rustichi Florentine (1441-42), in Tuscany and Terrasanta in the Middle Ages, Florence 1982.
"Rustic Code". Volume 1: Facsimile. Book entitled Demonstration of the journey to the Holy Sepulchre and Mount Sinai by Marco di Bartolomeo Rustici, 568 p. entirely illustrated Volume 2: Essays, edited by Elena Gurrieri. Critical edition, edited by Kathleen Olive and Nerida Newbigin, 320 p. 200 color illustrations, in box. Atlantic format, Florence, Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2015.
K. Olive. The Codex Rustici and the fifteenth-century Florentine artisan, in Renaissance Studies 23.5 (2009): 593-608.
S. Weddle. Saints in the city and poets at the gates: The Codex Rustici as a devotional and civic chronicle, in Florence and Beyon