[Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, c. 1483–84]

A copy of the first edition of a collection of humanistic works by Francesco Filelfo, professor of rhetoric at Florence, Milan and Rome. Acquired soon after publication by the great German humanist Gabriel von Eyb (1455–1535), the decoration, incorporating his arms and motto, and the binding of the book are both in Milanese style. Von Eyb, later Bishop of Eichstätt and Chancellor of the University of Ingolstadt, studied at Pavia, some 20 miles to the south of Milan, in the late 1480s.

Inc.5.B.7.12[4564], fol. A2 verso
Illuminated in Milan, 1480s