Incipit tabula restitucionu[m] usuraru[m] et excomu[n]icac[i]onu[m] edita per venerabilem dominum fratrem Franciscu[m] de Platea ordinis minorum.

Accession number: 
PML 24152
Author: 
Platea, Franciscus de, -1460.
Published: 
[Cracow] : [Printer of Turrecremata, Expositio (Kaspar Straube?)], .M.CCCC.LXXV [1475].
Description: 
[216] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1926.
Notes: 

Title from tabula caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Incipit, leaf [3]/1r: Incipit opus restitucionum utilissimum a reuerendo patre fratre Francisco de Platea Bononiense ordinis minorum diuiniq[ue] verbi predicatore eximio editum.
Date from colophon, leaf [21]/11r: [Printer's mark] Anno Nati[vi]tatis dom[in]i Iesu .M.CCCC.LXXV.
Printed in Printer of Turrecremata, Expositio (Kaspar Straube?) type 1:113G.
BMC doubtfully identifies the Printer of Turrecremata with Caspar Hochfeder: see BMC III (with notes in reprint assigning to Straube), and Geldner II p.361. For variants, see IBP.
Collation: [1-2¹²; 3-20¹⁰ 21¹²]: 216 leaves, leaf [21]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8 x 20.4 cm (temoin, leaf [6]/10: 31.5 x 20.7 cm).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [21]/12 (blank). Bottom of leaves [21]/10 and 11 remargined, with inscription cut away on leaf [21]/11r; leaf [10]/12r bottom margin with blank leaf pasted over, without loss to paper or text. Fore edge of final quire chipped and frayed.

Binding: 
Later (19th century?) vellum over stiff paper boards (31 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves
Variant Title: 

Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (stops in quire [12]). Annotations: No marginal notation in text. Early Latin inscription (in Germanic/Polish hand?) and pen trials (leaf [21]/11v); 16th-century Latin inscription about monastic reform copied from Fasciculus temporum, in year 1474 (leaf [21]/11v). Inscription, illegible: "W D[????] S[??]," 15th/16th century (top edge).

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gottschalk, Dec. 1926.
Classification: 
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