Regule Ordinationes et Co[n]stitutiones cancellarie.

Accession number: 
PML 127141.1-2
Author: 
Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484.
Published: 
[Rome] : [Adam Rot], [after 19 December 1471]
Description: 
[18, 8] leaves ; 21 x 15 cm (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1991.
Notes: 

Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸; 3⁸]: 26 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [2]/8, and [3]/7-8 blank.
Explicit (leaf [2]/7v): Lecte et publicate fuerunt suprascripte Regule Rome in Cancellaria apostolica die Martis .xxvii. mensis augusti Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxi. Indictione quarta Pontificatus .S. d[omini] n[ostri] d[omini] Sixti Pape .iiii. Anno primo G. de puteo Et in audientia Contradicta[rum] die Mercurii s[e]c[un]da octobris Anno et pontificatu ut supra Or.de Ursinis locumtenen.
Explicit (leaf [3]/6v): Lecte et publicate fueru[n]t supradicte regule rome in Cancellaria apostolica die iovis de cimanona me[n]sis Dece[m]bris Anno incarnatio[n]is dominice Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimoprimo indictio[n]e Quarta Po[n]tificatus p[re]fati Sauctissimi [sic] in [Christ]o patris et domini nostri domini Sixti divina provide[n]tia Pape Quarti Anno primo G. de puteo.
Paper format: Royal octavo
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 14.3 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [1]/1 (blank).
Printed in type 1:102R.
The second part, with Regulae expectativarum dated 19 Dec. 1471, is described in the Sotheby catalogue (now PML). It appears to precede Rot's edition, Goff S-577; cf. also Walsh 1337, with transcription (ISTC).
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Regule Ordinationes et Co[n]stitutiones cancellarie Sanctissimi domini nostri domini Sixti divina p[ro]vientia Pape Quarti scripte et correcte in Cancellaria Apostolica.

Binding: 
Modern laced limp parchment conservation binding (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Deborah Evetts, 1998. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 3 stab holes from previous binding visible at gutter. Previous blue paper wrapper and fly leaves (from Edicta et Mandata Universalia Regnis Galiciæ Et Lodomeriæ, Lemberg/Lviv (Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria/Ukraine), 1809) in box with book.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title for ChL629C: Constitutiones et regulae in gratiarum concessionibus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, initial added later to part I. Annotations: Contemporary numeration of paragraphs in quire [1] and inscription: LV (leaves [1]/2r and [3]/1r at incipit). Contemporary inscription along bottom edge, illegible.

Provenance: 
Unidentified collection, shelf mark/inscription: No. 763 (former paper wrapper and leaf [1]/2r); Sotheby's NY, 13 June 1991, lot 92; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Sotheby's (via E.K. Schreiber), 1991.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books