Institutionu[m] seu elementoru[m] domini Iustiniani.

Accession number: 
PML 21865
Uniform title: 
Institutiones.
Published: 
In universitate Louaniensi : Ioannes de paderborne in vvestfalia, M°.cccc°.lxxv°. mensis nouembris die .xxi. [21 November 1475].
Description: 
[220] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Notes: 

Title from caption, printed in red, leaf [1]/2r: [I]N nomine domini nostri Iesu christi. Imperator cesar. flauus. iustinianus. alama[n]bic[us]. goticus. fra[n]cus. germanicus. actic[us] gwandalicus. affricus. pi[us] ac felix. inclitus uictor ac triumphator: semp[er] augustus. Cupide legum inne[n]tuti. Salutem. Institutionu[m] seu elementoru[m] domini Iustiniani Incipit liber primus.
Imprint from colophon, printed in red, leaf [28]/6v: *Institutorum presens opus insigne / variis ex libris scriptis [et] imp[re]ssis iurisperitorum industria perexacte eme[n]datum ac per partes titulorum [et] paragraphorum iuxta domini Ioannis de platea / aliorumq[eu] legum docto[rum] precepta limpidissime distinctu[m]: Ioannes de paderborne in vvestfalia / alma in vniuersitate Louaniensi residens / non fluui ali calamo set arte quandam caracterisandi modernissima / suo p[ro]prio signo consignando feliciter consummauit Anno incarnationis d[omi]nice M°.cccc°.lxxv°. mensis nouembris die .xxi. ... [Printer's mark, printed in black]
Printed in Westfalia's types 1B:89/90G and 2A:119G.
Collation: [1-13⁸ 14⁶; 15-27⁸ 28⁶]: 220 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [28]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
With the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 21.1 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [28]/6 (blanks).

Binding: 
Modern half brown goatskin, with cloth sides, over paper boards (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red section titles, initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Dec. 1922.
Classification: 
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