Vtilis ac preclara repetitio .c. cum contingat d[e] iure iurando edita per optimu[m] iuris interpretem d[ominum]. Iohanne[m] d[e] Imola [et] in studioru[m] matre bononia exactissima cum diligentia castigata & impressa foeliciter i[n]cipit.

Accession number: 
PML 22533
Author: 
Joannes, de Imola, -1436.
Published: 
[Bologna] : Zampol Zaffone [in the employ of Hannibal Malpiglius?] ha impresso questa opera...Sigismondus de Libris in patria sua Bononia studiorum altrice suis impensis emendatissime imprimi curauit], M.CCCCLXXVI [1476].
Description: 
[52] leaves ; 43.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1925.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [8]/6v: Finit sole[m]nis repetitio c. cu[m] co[n]tingat d[e] iure iur. edita p[er] excelle[n]tissimu[m] doctore[m] do[minum]. Io[hannem]. d[e] Imola qua[m] Sigismondus de Libris i[n] patria sua Bononia studio[rum] altrice suis i[m]pens[is] em[en]datissime i[m]primi curauit. Anno d[omi]ni M.CCCCLXXVI. Rar[us] habebais pride[m] celeb[r]eime canon / Nu[n]c ope Gismondi copia facta tui e[st] / Imola te repetit q[ui] docte: h[ic] i[m]primit apte / Is facit aeternu[m]: q[ui]d d[e]dit ille decus. / Zampol Zaffone ha impresso questa opera.
Printed in Zaffone's type 1:98R.
Since documentary evidence indicates that Malpiglius printed an edition of this work, it has been suggested that Zaffone may not have been an independent craftsman (cf BMC, note) (Goff). Attributed definitely to Malpiglius by BMC.
PML Checklist lists Zaffone as compositor.
Collation: [1⁸ 2-4⁶ 5⁸ 6-8⁶]: 52 leaves.
Paper format: Super-royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42.4 x 28.5 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century(?) paste paper over limp paper boards (43.5 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant Title: 

Repetitio capituli "Cum contingat" de iure iurando

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary notations throughout in 2-3 hands, including a very neat humanist hand and a later Italian hand. Columns are numbered in Roman and then Arabic numerals.

Provenance: 
Unidentified purchase inscription below colophon: "bb 3/4/3/ die 15 aprilis [15]02" (leaf [8]/6v); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Voynich, Jan. 1925.
Classification: 
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