Questiones mercuriales sup[er] regulis iuris.

Accession number:

PML 20694

Author:

Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348.

Published:

Venice : Adam de Rottweil, Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxvii. quarto nonas Julii [4 July 1477].

Description:

[156] leaves ; 31.5 x 22.5 cm.(fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

Title from colophon.
Colophon (leaf q9r): Questiones mercuriales sup[er] regulis iuris. Jo. an. impresse venetiis per magirstrum Adam de Rothvil. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxvii. quarto nonas Julii. finiu[n]t feliciter.
Printed in types 1:94G and 2:140G.
Collation: a-e¹⁰ f-g⁸ h-q¹⁰: 156 leaves, leaves a1 and q10 blank. Leaf a1 unsigned, a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: q10 (blank).

Binding:

17th/18th-century(?) vellum over paper boards (31.5 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Mercuriales quaestiones

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks of northern Italian/Venetian style; initial on leaf a2r has filigree penwork decoration. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in a humanist hand, mainly in first-half of text.

Provenance:

Valius Mantega, inscription: "Liber primi valii mantega ex portuno[rum]," 15th century (leaf q9r); Venice, unidentified monastery, inscription: "Bibliotheq[????]nali Con[ventus] Venetia[rum]" covered over by book label (leaf a2r); Venice, Discalced Carmelites, Santa Maria di Nazareth, armorial book label, 17th/18th century (leaf a2r); unidentified shelf mark: B*.2.30, (front pastedown and spine); Caironi Agostino (1820-1907), of Milan, red oval stamp, no. 208 (leaf a2r); unidentified Italian sale catalogue description, no. 8 (front fly leaf recto); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown) and price code: [gamma eta], purchased in July 1901 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1793, to Quaritch (with collation note, 4 Dec. 1917) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Nov. 1917 (accessioned 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books