Philippi Cominei [= Philip de Comines]

Gründtliche Beschreibung allerei wichtiger namhaffter Sachen vnnd Händel : so sich bey Regierung der Grossmächtigsten vnd durchleuchtigsten Fürsten vnnd Herzen Herzen Ludwigen des Eylfften ... Carles herzogen zu Burgund ... Carles des Achten ... Mit einer Vorrede unnd zu ende des Buchs angehenckter Erklärunge ettlicher Sachen ... Durch Michaelem Beuther von Carlstatt der Rechten Doctor. Strassburg, Josiam Rihel, 1580. Small folio, new binding, illus. with music text, new endpapers, title page in red and black with printer's mark in woodcut, leather chapter ties cut up to page edge, finger stains, text somewhat tanned, incidental stains in the text, binding scratched, else good and inside complete.

Philip de Comines was a writer and diplomat at the courts of Burgundy and France; he is named the first "modern" writer and the first critical and philosophical historian since the classics. He was no chronicler in the usual sense, but more of an analyst of the political scene at the time.