Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 20 June 1491

This copy of the first edition of a treatise on health by Antonio Gazio, professor of medicine at Padua and later personal physician to King Sigismond I of Poland (1467–1548), was printed in Venice. The illumination is attributable to Antonio Maria da Villafora (d. 1511), a leading artist in the Veneto. The decoration includes a satyr playing the rebec and the arms of the Visconti, the ruling family of Milan, suggesting that the book may have been a presentation copy from the author in a fruitless attempt to secure patronage.

Inc.2.B.3.45[1506], fol. a1 recto
Illuminated in Venice, 1490–1500