Bidspirit auction | Guglielmo Becchi

Guglielmo Becchi - Guglielmo Becchi - Guilielmi Becchii florentini generalis Augustinianorum comentum in libros iconomicorum aristotelis, 1467. Splendid humanistic parchment manuscript containing the Commentary on Aristotle's Economics by the Augustinian Guglielmo Becchi, signed on the colophon: ”Guililemi Becchij Generalis Augustinensiurum Comentum super libris Yconomicorum Aristotielis feliciter explicit Anno dni M° cccc°lxvij° xx Julii”. The manuscript is composed of six quires of eight leaves each, the last of seven with four blank pages at the end, for a total of 43 cc., measures 198 x 143 mm., written by a single hand in humanistic cursive. On the first leaf, an elegant letter P decorated in gold and other colors, with festoons on the sides. At the bottom , a noble coat of arms on a red background depicting a double-crenellated gold band placed horizontally in the center and three gold crescents arranged two at the top and one at the bottom . Red rubrics, initials with red and blue paraphs, filigree initial caps, illuminated initial on a gold background in pink, blue, and green, and a decorated festoon on the side. 19th-century brown leather binding with blind embossing on the covers and a gold title on the spine.