Super feudis.

Accession number: 
PML 24551
Author: 
Alvarotti, Jacopo, 1385-1453.
Published: 
Venetiis : [Printer of the 1477 Alvarotus], Millesimo q[ua]dringe[n]tesimo septuagesimo septimo ... duodecimo nouembris [12 November 1477].
Description: 
[288] leaves ; 43.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1927.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf rr4v: Hoc opus impressum fuit Venetiis Anno domini Millesimo q[ua]dringe[n]tesimo septuagesimo septimo. Serenissimo [et] illustrissimo principe. d[omi]no Andrea Uendramino imperante [et] completu[m] duodecimo nouembris. Laus deo.
Proctor assigned to Padua, where IGI VI assigns part of the output of this press, to the printer Laurentius Canozius, de Lendenaria.
Printed in type 2:91G attributed to th Printer of the 1477 Alvarotus.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-i⁸/⁶ k-n⁶/⁸ o⁶ q⁸ r-t⁶ v⁸ x⁶ y⁸ z⁶ [et]-aa⁸ bb⁶ cc⁸ dd-ff⁶ gg-hh⁸ ii-nn⁶ oo⁸ pp¹⁰ qq⁸ rr⁶: 288 leaves, leaves a1 and rr8 blank. Leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Super-royal folio.
With additions by Matthaeus de Corbinellis and Montorius Mascarellus. Edited by Baptista de Sancto Blasio. Additional texts: Consilia. Baptista de Sancto Blasio, Tractatus de differentiis inter decisiones feudales iuris canonici et civilis. Consilium ad materiam legis primi paragraphi 'Praeterea ducatus' tituli 'De prohibita feudi alienatione'.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 29.3 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and rr6 (blanks).

Binding: 
19th-century half vellum, with wood-grain paper sides, over wooden boards (43.5 x 31 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks; incomplete illuminated foliate initial, with only outline and one base color (leaf a2r). Annotations: Bibliographic note identifying foliation and imprint, 17th/18th century (leaf rr5v).

Provenance: 
Ercole Silva, conte di Biandrate (1756-1840), armorial stamp: "Comes Hercules Silva" (leaf a2r), sale, Paris, 15 Feb. 1869; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, May 1927.
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