Clarissimi ac utriusq[ue] iuris interpretis famosissimi Iohannis de Imola opus preclaru[m] i[n] Cleme[n]tinas.

Accession number: 
PML 23479
Author: 
Joannes, de Imola, -1436.
Published: 
Venetijs : impressum summo artificio ac industria ingeniossimi viri Jacobi de Rubeis natione Gallici, .M.cccclxxv [1475].
Description: 
[246] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1926.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf [27]/6r: Clarissimi ac utriusq[ue] iuris interpretis famosissimi Iohannis de Imola opus preclaru[m] i[n] Cleme[n]tinas. Uenetijs impressu[m]/ summo artificio: ac industria ingeniosissimi uiri Iacobi de Rubeis natione Gallici. Anno domini .M.cccclxxv. Inclyto Uenetuarum Duce Petro mocenico.
Printed in Rubeus's type 3:104G and 4:82G.
Signatures: [1-4¹⁰/⁸ 5¹⁰ 6¹⁴ 7-9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁶ 12-13⁸ 14-16¹⁰ 17-23⁸ 24-26¹⁰ 27⁶]: 246 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.5 x 28.5 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary German (Lower Rhine/Strasbourg?) quarter blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (42.5 x 29 cm), sewn on 5 supports by the Blattzweig Raute workshop (EBDB w003535, active 1478-1483). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, with manuscript binding waste from a breviary, 14th century; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant Title: 

Opus preclarum in Clementinas

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine (Strasbourg?) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, many with flourished tails. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript headlines (at top-right corners) and alpha-numeric quire signatures; marginal notations, in several hands, sporadically throughout text. Author inscription: "ymola" (leaf a1r) and title on top board.

Provenance: 
Strasbourg, Collegiate Church of Saint Pierre-le-Jeune, inscription: "Colegii S. Petri junioris Argentinae," 17th century (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified (Strasbourg, St. Pierre?) shelfmark: P. 1. 3. (front endleaf 1 recto); Earls of Hopetoun, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), collection inherited and sold by John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th earl of Hopetoun (1860-1908), Hopetoun House sale, Sotheby's, 25 Feb. 1889, lot 846; Edmund McClure (d. 1922), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Wilfred Voynich, March 1926.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Printed Books