Prima p[ar]s lecture excelle[n]tissimi vtriusq[ue] docto[ris] do[mi]ni Bartoli de saxferrato sup[er] inforciato.

Accession number:

PML 20667.1

Author:

Bartolo, of Sassoferrato, 1313-1357.

Published:

Venetijs : Per magistrum Nicolaum Ienson gallicum, M.cccclxxviij. die xxviij. Marcii [28 March 1478].

Description:

[170] leaves ; 43.5 cm (fol)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf u9v: Prima p[ar]s lecture excelle[n]tissimi vtriusq[ue] docto[ris] do[mi]ni Bartoli de saxferrato sup[er] inforciato hic finit[ur]: p[er] optime eme[n]data i[m]pressioni data fuit p[er] magistru[m] icolau[m] Ienson gallicu[m] venetijs anno domini .M.cccclxxviij. die .xxviij. martij.
Printed in Jenson's types types 5:93G and 7:150G.
Text begins on leaf a2 recto: 'Quia hic non est caput libri considerata diuisio[n]e legislatoris ... '.
Signatures: a-u⁸ x¹⁰: 170 leaves, leaves a1 and x10 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 27.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).

Binding:

20th-century quarter leather over contemporary wooden boards (43.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Duprez Lahey. Modern paper endleaves; plain endbands with original manuscript waste from 15th-century German document notarized by Hermannus Birrick de Orssen in the dioceses of Cologne (front and rear pastedowns).

Variant Title:

Prima pars lecture excellentissimi utriusque doctoris domini Bartoli de saxferrato super inforciato

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries rubrication (same in both parts), alternating red and blue lombards, running headlines with book number; primary initial with penwork decoration (leaf a2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Vlierbeek (Belgium), Benedictines, Saint-Médard, inscription: "Liber monasterij Sancti Medardi Vlierbecensis," 16th century (leaf a2r); unidentified shelf mark: [Delta] D. k. 5. (leaf a2r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Edward L. Dean, July 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Wooden boards (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books