Repertorium iuris.

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Accession number: 
PML 20346
Author: 
Calderinus, Joannes, -1365.
Published: 
[Basel] : per impressum [Michael Wenssler], primo ydus decembris .M.CCCC.lxxiiij [12 December 1474].
Description: 
[258, 232] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1918.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Date from colophon, part II, leaf [24]/8v: Diuini ac humani iuris, res tam sup[er]nas q[uem] subt[er]nas b[e]n[e] dispone[n]tis reportoriu[m] disertissimi doctoris Caldrini p[er] imp[re]ssum p[ri]mo yd[us] decemb[ris] .M.CCCC.lxxiiij. felicit[er]. Explicit.
Printed in Wenssler's type 1:121G.
In two parts. Collation, part I: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-9¹⁰ 10-12⁸ 13-24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26¹⁰ 27⁸]: 258 leaves; part II: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10-12¹⁰ 13¹² 14-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20-22¹⁰ 23-24⁸]: 232 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39 x 28.5 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary Austrian blind-tooled pigsking over wooden boards (40.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Dominican convent in Vienna (EBDB w002390, active 1453-86, also know as Wien Dominikanerkloster or Predigerkloster); repaired. Plain endbands. Paper title label on top board. Furniture and 2 clasps, missing; former chain attachment on rear board.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript quire numeration at the bottom-center margin of the first recto, and consecutive numbering of each sheet at the bottom-right corner.

Provenance: 
Unidentified English sale catalogue description, no. 1296 (front pastedown); W. B. Ruggles, of Bath, NY, signature, 19th century (leaf [1]/1r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Edward L. Dean, 1918.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Genres: 
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books