OratioFilelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481[ca. 1467]latManuscript on paper of Francesco Filelfo, Oratio parentalis de divi Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium ducis felicitateIn Latin.Watermarks, much worn, buried in gutter: similar in general design to Piccard, Ochsenkopf VII.955.Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat sloping humanistic bookhand, above top line.Space left for initial on f. 1r is unfilled; heading in majuscules, colophon, and marginalia, in pale red.Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Quarter bound in brown mottled calf; mottled yellow and green paper sides; pale brown edges. Gold-tooled spine including title, which is mostly wanting. Spine worm-eaten.