Manuscript on paper of Francesco Filelfo, Oratio parentalis de divi Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium ducis felicitate.
Description:
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., Modern foliation in pencil includes preliminary leaf. Detailed description reflects original organization (i.e., "2r"=1r), 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., and Watermarks, much worn, buried in gutter: similar in general design to Piccard, Ochsenkopf VII.955.
Subject (Geographic):
Milan (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Filelfo, Francesco,--1398-1481
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)