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| thanks discardingimages. (PD), Guillelmus Fichetus, Rhetorica, Paris 1471, Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 176, f. 1r |
The "Rhetorica" of Guillelmus Fichetus recorded ten years' worth of that scholar's teaching. The white pup above is a detail of the book's introductory illustration, in which Fichetus is presenting his manuscript to Princess Yolanda of Savoy. (This page tells you that and a bit more.) Want to see the whole page of this illustration? This should take you there.
2 comments:
Lovely manuscript page. It still amazes me to be able to look at things like this on the internet. When I was a child, it would have been an impossible dream.
I would love to see the occasional modern book produced like this too. I mean, I'm sure somewhere they are, but in such rarefied places I wouldn't get to see them.
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