Accession number
PML 20667.1
Creator
Bartolo, of Sassoferrato, 1313-1357.
Object title
Prima p[ar]s lecture excelle[n]tissimi vtriusq[ue] docto[ris] do[mi]ni Bartoli de saxferrato sup[er] inforciato.
Published
Venetijs : Per magistrum Nicolaum Ienson gallicum, M.cccclxxviij. die xxviij. Marcii [28 March 1478].
Description
[170] leaves ; 43.5 cm (fol)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf u9v: Prima p[ar]s lecture excelle[n]tissimi vtriusq[ue] docto[ris] do[mi]ni Bartoli de saxferrato sup[er] inforciato hic finit[ur]: p[er] optime eme[n]data i[m]pressioni data fuit p[er] magistru[m] icolau[m] Ienson gallicu[m] venetijs anno domini .M.cccclxxviij. die .xxviij. martij.
Printed in Jenson's types types 5:93G and 7:150G.
Text begins on leaf a2 recto: 'Quia hic non est caput libri considerata diuisio[n]e legislatoris ... '.
Signatures: a-u⁸ x¹⁰: 170 leaves, leaves a1 and x10 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 27.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Printed in Jenson's types types 5:93G and 7:150G.
Text begins on leaf a2 recto: 'Quia hic non est caput libri considerata diuisio[n]e legislatoris ... '.
Signatures: a-u⁸ x¹⁰: 170 leaves, leaves a1 and x10 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 27.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding
20th-century quarter leather over contemporary wooden boards (43.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Duprez Lahey. Modern paper endleaves; plain endbands with original manuscript waste from 15th-century German document notarized by Hermannus Birrick de Orssen in the dioceses of Cologne (front and rear pastedowns).
Variant title
Prima pars lecture excellentissimi utriusque doctoris domini Bartoli de saxferrato super inforciato
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries rubrication (same in both parts), alternating red and blue lombards, running headlines with book number; primary initial with penwork decoration (leaf a2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Vlierbeek (Belgium), Benedictines, Saint-Médard, inscription: "Liber monasterij Sancti Medardi Vlierbecensis," 16th century (leaf a2r); unidentified shelf mark: [Delta] D. k. 5. (leaf a2r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Edward L. Dean, July 1919.
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