Prima pars consiliorum aureo[rum] prestantissimi domini Iohannis de Anania. U.I. doctoris cu[m] aliquib[us] additionib[us] domini Ludouici Bolognini. U.I. doctoris ad reuere[n]dissimu[m] .d. gubernatore[m] Bon[oniae] D. Ioha[n]ne[m] Aly de Nigris de Medio.

Accession number: 
PML 20722
Author: 
Joannes, de Anania.
Published: 
Bologna : Henricus de Colonia, [not before 17 January 1481]
Description: 
[127] leaves ; 43.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p3r-v: Expliciu[n]t elegantissima [et] omni veritate refulgentia consilia prestantissimi vtriusq[ue] iuris ... [et] vlumo loco litteris eneis impressa per magistrum Henricum de Colonia ad presens in hac ciuitate nostra commemorantem. [et] circa libroum impressiones se mirabiliter exercentem. ... Data in hoc almo Bononie studio die decima Ianuarii. Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo octuogesimo primo ad laudem gloriam omnipotentis dei [et] sancti Pauli cuius festu[m] hodie celebramus ...
Printed in Colonia's type 3:85G.
About the date cf. BMC. The feast of the Conversion of St. Paul is celebrated on 25 January.
Collation: a⁸ b⁶ c¹⁰; ²a¹⁰ ²b⁶ ²c⁸ d-e⁶ f⁸ g⁶ h¹⁰ i⁶ [k]⁸ l-p⁶: 127 leaves, leaves a1, c9-10, ²a1, k8, and p4-6 blank.
Paper format: Super-royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42.8 x 28.3 cm.
PML copy missing 7 leaves: a1, c9 (or c10), ²a1, k8, and p4-6 (blanks).

Binding: 
18th/19th-century quarter calf, with paper sides, over paper boards (43.5 x 29.5 cm), stab-sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; stuck-on endbands.
Variant Title: 

Consilia, cum additionibus et tabula Ludouici Bolognini

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
Raimondo Ambrosini (1855-1914), bookplate "Ex libris R. Ambrosini" with shelfmark: LXXXXVIII (front pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Tammaro de Marinis, 1919.
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