Progetti e iniziative per la conoscenza, la descrizione e lo studio degli incunaboli milanesi

The article briefly summarises past and current research on Milanese incunables, paying particular attention to Giuseppe Antonio Sassi’s Historia literariotypograhica Mediolenensis ab anno 1465 ad annum 1500, included in the first volume of Filippo Argelati’s Bibliotheca scriptorum Mediolanensium (1745). Sassi indicates the sources he drew on in identifying and describing the more than 500 incunables recorded in his book, thus enabling us to trace their presence in ecclesiastical and aristocratic libraries as well as in those of individual scholars. There has been a fortunate revival of interest in Milanese incunables recently, thanks to more detailed cataloguing and to the discovery of extensive archival documents. The article notes briefly some new and important discoveries in the library of the Franciscan Order at Sant’Angelo and the library of the ‘Seminario Arcivescovile’ in Venegono.