Commines, Philippe de.

De Rebus Gestis Ludovici, eius nominis undecimi, Galliarum Regis, & Caroli, Burgundiae Ducis.

 Joannem Roigny & Christianum Wechelum, Parisiis, 1545



Size 4.5 by 7"

395, [4] pp,

printer device's on final leaf. 

Original limp vellum, gilt rule and vignette on boards, gilt emboss to spine, all edges gilt.


Minor soiling to vellum, lacking ties, good interior. Manuscript title on the spine.

Text in Latin

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Philippe de Commines ( Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 – 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France.

He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature).

Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
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