Incipit opus restitutionum utilissimum / a Reuerendo in Christo Patre Fratre Francisco de Platea Bononiensis Ordinis Minorum diuini que uerbie predicatore eximio editum.

Accession number: 
PML 20465
Author: 
Platea, Franciscus de, -1460, author.
Published: 
[Padua, Italy] : [Leonardus Achates de Basilea], [(not after 28 July) 1473]
Description: 
[174] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes: 

Title from caption (all caps), leaf a1r.
Imprint and date as given by ISTC. Colophon, leaf [173b], reads: "Quem legis: impressus dum stabit in ere caracter. Dum non longa dies uel fera fata prement. Condida perpetue non deerit fama Basilee. Phidiacum hinc superat Leonhardus ebur. Cedite chalcographi: millesima uestra figura est. Archetipas fingit solus at iste notas. M.CCCC.LXXIII. Nicolao Trono duce Veneciarur [that is, Veneciarum] regnante impressum fuit hoc opus Padue foeliciter." The doge Nicolao Trono died on 28 July 1473.
Printed in Achates's type 1:105R.
Collation: A¹⁰ B⁸; a-f¹⁰ g⁶ h-q¹⁰: 174 leaves, leaf q10 blank. The signatures are placed far down in the lower right-hand corner, subject to trimming; those through quire g (containing the table and Restitutiones) are stamped, the rest being supplied by the printer in manuscript.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Based on the edition of Bartholomeus Cremonensis (Venice, 1472; ISTC ip00572000), substituting "Basilee" for "Cremonæ" and "Leonhardus" for "Bartholomeus" in the colophon.
1 column, 40 lines, with marginal section numbers. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century tacketed and laced vellum over paper boards (31 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. Same binding as PML 20714 (ChL 1234).
Variant Title: 

Caption, leaf A1: Incipit tabula restitutionum usurarum et excomunicationum ...

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary foliation, with foliation added to tabula. Minimal contemporary marginal notations.

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1919.
Classification: 
Department: