Incipit liber sexus decretaliu[m] d[omi]ni bonifacij pape .viij.

Accession number:

PML 20

Author:

Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303.

Published:

Maguntina : per Petrum Schoiffer de Gernβhem, .M.cccc.lxx. die vero .xvij mensis Aprilis [17 April 1470].

Description:

[138] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Incipit liber sexus decretaliu[m] d[omi]ni bonifacij pape .viij.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [14]/9r: Presens huius sexti decretaliu[m] preclaru[m] opus. Alma in vrbe maguntina. inclite mac[i]onis germanice. qua[m] dei clene[n]tia tam alto ingenij lumine. donoq[ue] gratuito. ceteris terra[rum] nationib[us] p[re]ferre. illustrareq[ue] dignata est. non atreme[n]to. plumali canna neq[ue] aerea. s[ed] artificiosa quada[m[ adiue[n]tione imprimendi seu caracterizandi sic effigiatu[m]. et ad eusebia[m] dei. industrie e[t] [con]summatu[m] Per. Petrum schoiffer de gernβhem. Anno domini .M.cccc.lxx. Die vero .xvij mensis aprilis. [printer's device]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 3:91G and 5:118G.
Collaction: [1-3¹⁰ 4¹⁰ (+3 leaves) 5-9¹⁰ 10⁶ (+1 leaf); 11⁸ 12-14¹⁰]: 138 leaves, leaf [14]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's device printed in red.
Set up from Fust and Schoeffer edition of 1465.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.8 x 28.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [14]/9 (blank).

Binding:

19th-century English black morocco, blind-tooled in a retrospecitve style, over heavy paper boards (42.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Hayday, with the gilt armorial of Seillière. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain vellum endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Incipit liber sextus decretalium

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Mainz red/blue foliate initial with papal portrait in center (portrait perhaps modern addition?, leaf [1]/1r), rubricated with alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Red/blue initials and paragraph marks identical to Vatican copy (Membr.S.22) and PML's 1468 Institutiones (PML 21138/ChL 13). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contermporary arabic quire numbers at bottom center of first leaf, mostly trimmed. Fore edge tabs.

Provenance:

Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding, Bibliothèque de Mello sale, Paris, 1890, lot 88; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, laid-in (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: dm/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books