Breviarium super totum corpus iuris Canonici.

Accession number:

PML 20710

Author:

Attavanti, Paolo, 1445?-1499.

Published:

Memmingen : Albrecht Kunne, 1499.

Description:

[134] leaves ; 26 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (a1r): Breviarium super totum corpus iuris Canonici.
Colophon (leaf q5v): Decretorum ac Decretalium Sexti et Clementinarum p[er] utile Breviaririum [sic] cum tabula p[er] alphabetu[m]. ... Impressu[m] Me[m]mingen per Albertu[m] Küne d[er] duderstat. Anno salutis. 1499.
Printed in Kunne's types 2:115G (title), 6:87bG (preface), 5:87aR (head to preface and incipits, kerned to about 72), and 4:71G (text).
Collation: a¹⁰ b-n⁸ o¹⁰ p⁸ q⁶ [r⁴]: 134 leaves, leaf q6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Author's name also recorded as Paulus Attavanti (cf. DBI 4 p.531).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.3 x 18.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern half brown goatskin with cloth sides over paper boards (26.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.

Variant Title:

Breviarium totius juris canonici, sive Decretorum breviarium.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not realized. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

[G. Gallarini, of Rome, note by Belle Greene on front pastedown;] George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown and without his typical notes); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1444 to Ellis for £3.10; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Ellis, 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books