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Super feudis.

Accession number
PML 20783
Creator
Alvarotti, Jacopo, 1385-1453.
Object title

Super feudis.

Published

[Lyon] : Impressum est atque finitum per Nicolaum Philippi ac Marcum Reinhart, .M.cccc.lxxviii. die vero mensis Aprilis antepenultimo [28 April 1478].

Description

[226] leaves ; 37.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r: In nomine sancte et indiuidue trinitatis patrus et filij [et] sp[irit]us sancti glorioseq[ue] virginis marie vtriusq[ue] Iacobi apostoli, tociusq[ue] curie celestis. Amen. Venerande vniuersitati iurisaru[m] Padue Iacobus de Aluarotis patau[us] [et] opus p[re]sens.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [25]/8v: Iacobi de alpharottis vtriusq[ue] iuris doctoris famosissimi ingenioq[ue] solertissimi opus nouu[m] atq[ue] perutile super feudis q[uam] exornatissime ta[n]q[ue] eme[n]date imp[re]ssum e[st] atq[ue] finitu[m] p[er] Nicolaum philippi ac Marcu[m] reinhart viros q[uam] honestos. Anno incarnat[i]onis [christ]i .M.cccc.lxxviii. die vero me[n]sis aprilis antepenultimo. De quo laus imensa deo trino et vno.
Printed in Philippi and Reinhart's types 1:73G and 2:120G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-7⁸ 8⁶ 9-23⁸ 24⁶ 25⁸; 26⁸ 27-28¹⁰]: 226 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
With additions by Matthaeus de Corbinellis and Montorius Mascarellus.
For variants on f.1 see CIBN A-287.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.5 x 24.5 cm.
Binding
17th/18th-century mottled calf over paper boards (37.5 x 26.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports; rebacked; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges. Evidence on final leaves of damage from a chain hasp from the previous binding.
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 2 Feb. 1914, lot 717 for £5.5.0 to Leighton, J. & J. Leightson sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 Nov. 1918, lot 839; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Nov. 1919.
Classification
Century
Department