Decreta : Sabaudie : ducalia : tam uetera : q[uam] noua ...

Accession number: 
PML 27542
Published: 
Taurini : impressa per insigne[m] Iohannem Fabri lingonen[sis], Anno a natali christiano Milessimo quatuorcentessimo s[e]ptugessimo [sic] septimo Quintodecimo Kalendas decembris [17 November 1477].
Description: 
[180] leaves ; 288 mm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1930.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from caption, partly in capitals, at incipit of the table of contents on leaf [1]/2r, which reads: Decreta : Sabaudie : ducalia [all in capitals] : tam uetera : q[uam] noua : ad iusticiam et rem publicam gubernanda[m] : p[ro]pe diuina : Suasu atq[ue] ope preclari iuris utriusq[ue] doctoris : domini : Petri [in capitals] : Care : Ducalis consiliarii : aduocatiq[ue] fiscalis : Taurini impressa per insigne[m] Ioannem Fabri lingonen[sis] : Regnante inclyto : mire indolis : diuineq[ue] spei : Illustrissimo : Philiberto [in capitals] : Sabaudie duce : ac Serenissima matre : Iolant [in capitals] : Karoli septimi. Christianissimi Francorum regis : primogenita : tutellam ei[us] : imperiumq[ue] gerente : Anno a natali christiano : Milessimo : quatuorcentessimo s[e]ptugessimo [sic] septimo : Quintodecimo Kalendas decembris.
Colophon, leaf u5r: Explicit : Taurini [all in capitals] : p[er] Egregium Magistrum : Iohannem fabri lingonensis.
Printed in Fabri's type 2:114R.
Signatures: [1]⁸; a-f¹⁰ g⁸ [h⁴] k-q¹⁰ r-t⁸ u⁶. Leaves [1]/1, s8, and u6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Petrus Cara.
Spaces left blank for initials, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and u6 (blanks); with leaf o8 (conjoint with o3) bound before o4.

Binding: 
18th/19th-century stiff vellum over paper boards (30 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Sabaudiae decreta ducalia

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication (Savoy region?), red/blue initial (a1r and t1r), with red initials. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript quire signatures, mostly trimmed. No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscriptions, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); Giuseppe Martini, collation inscription (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, July 1930.
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