Accession number
PML 20667.2
Creator
Bartolo, of Sassoferrato, 1313-1357.
Object title
Lectura eximij docotris domini Bartoli de saxoferrato super secu[n]da inforciati.
Published
Uenetijs impressa : per Andream de Toresanis de Asula, .M.cccc.lxxxvij. die vero .v. decembris [5 December 1487].
Description
[166] leaves ; 43.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf x5v: Lectura eximij docotris domini Bartoli de saxoferrato super secu[n]da inforciati per optime emendata: ac per Andrea[m] de Toresanis de Asula Uenetijs i[m]pressa feliciter explicit: Anno salutis [christ]iane .M.cccc.lxxxvij. die v[er]o .v. decembris.
Printed in Torresanus's types 4:150G (mixed with 11:180G) and 9:93G.
Signatures. a-u⁸ x⁶: 166 leaves, leaves a1 and x6 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 27.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: x6 (blank).
Printed in Torresanus's types 4:150G (mixed with 11:180G) and 9:93G.
Signatures. a-u⁸ x⁶: 166 leaves, leaves a1 and x6 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 27.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: x6 (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
Super secunda inforciati
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. Manuscript title inscription, leaf a1r.
Provenance
Vlierbeek (Belgium), Benedictines, Saint-Médard, inscription: "Liber monasterij Sancti Medardi Vlierbecensis," 16th century (part I, leaf a2r); unidentified shelf mark: [Delta] D. k. 5. (part I, leaf a2r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Edward L. Dean, July 1919.
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