Published:
Gracionopoli : per Stephanum Foreti, die penultima mens[is] aprilis Anno d[omi]ni m°.cccc.lxxxx [29 April 1490].
Description:
[400] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Binding:
18th-century English brown calf over paper boards (29 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Provenance:
Pierre Civa (active 1545), inscription by his son, Jean Civa: "Hic liber decisionum fuit nobilis et egregii viri D. Petri Civa patris mei dum viveret senatoris regii in senatu grationopolitano" (leaf aa1r), also a quote from Justinian's Institutions, "Si pereat tota liberatur emphitesta / Quod si p[ro] parte nulla liberabitur arte" (leaf X6v); Antoine Benjamin Morin d'Hérouville, bookplate (leaf aa1v), his sale, Sotheby & Leigh, 9 March 1870, purchased by: Michael Wodhull, purchase inscription (front endleaf 1 recto), bought with 4 other books for 2s: 3d, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 1890 to Quaritch; Anatole Claudin, collation inscription (front pastedown); Eugen Chaper, bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front endleaf 1 recto); Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, bookplate (front pastedown) and inscription: "AE R.892" (rear pastedown), inherited by his son: John Ehrman (1920-2011), bookplate inscribed "Xmas 1950" (rear pastedown), Broxbourne sale, part I, Sotheby's, 14 Nov. 1977, lot 197 to Lathrop C. Harper for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
