Accession number
PML 24
Creator
Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303.
Object title
Incipit lib[er] sextus decretaliu[m] d[omi]ni bonifacij p[a]pe .viij.
Published
Maguncia : Petrum Schoiffer de Gernβhem, .M.cccc.lxxiij. ad nonas aprilis [5 April 1473].
Description
[162] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Incipit lib[er] sextus decretaliu[m] d[omi]ni bonifacij p[a]pe .viij.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [17]/4r: Sexti decretaliu[m] opus p[re]claru[m] in nobili vrbe Magu[n]cia! qua[m] imp[ri]mendi arte ingeniosa gratuitoq[ue] dono/ glorisosus deus plus ceteris terraru[m] nationib[us] p[re]ferre illustrareq[ue] dignatus! no[n] atramento quada[m] p[er]pulchra per venera[n]du[m] viru[m] Petru[m] schoiffer de gernβhem/ feliciter est consummatum. Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxiij. ad nonas aprilis. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 5:118G and 6:92G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4¹²(11+1: nullius penitus); 5-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰(9+1: in quib[us] iura); 9¹² 10-11⁸ 12⁶; 13-16¹⁰ 17⁴]: 162 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
With gloss of Johannes Andreae.
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 28.1 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [17]/4r: Sexti decretaliu[m] opus p[re]claru[m] in nobili vrbe Magu[n]cia! qua[m] imp[ri]mendi arte ingeniosa gratuitoq[ue] dono/ glorisosus deus plus ceteris terraru[m] nationib[us] p[re]ferre illustrareq[ue] dignatus! no[n] atramento quada[m] p[er]pulchra per venera[n]du[m] viru[m] Petru[m] schoiffer de gernβhem/ feliciter est consummatum. Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxiij. ad nonas aprilis. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 5:118G and 6:92G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4¹²(11+1: nullius penitus); 5-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰(9+1: in quib[us] iura); 9¹² 10-11⁸ 12⁶; 13-16¹⁰ 17⁴]: 162 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
With gloss of Johannes Andreae.
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 28.1 cm.
Binding
19th-century English blind-tooled red straigh-grained morocco over paper boards (41.5 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports, with Wodhull gilt armorial on sides. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Incipit liber sextus decretalium domini bonifacij pape viii
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red/blue initials with green/pink penwork decoration, and running and subject headlines.; primary initial in blue, green, pink, and red, with foliate border decoration, inhabited border with a man, squirrel, birds, and armorial (leaf [1]/1r). All pigments are rather thin (not very opaque). Some decorative initials tend towards cadell characteristics, some inhabited or with faces in profile. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text. Contemporary foliation. Manuscript "Tabula Rubr[icarum] Sexti lib. decretal[i]," written in a German hand, 16th century (rear endleaf 1 recto, previously as front endleaf but moved to end and inverted when rebound).
Provenance
Unidentified armorial: crowned lion, three flowers (leaf [1]/1r); Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), armorial binding and inscription, 14 Dec. 1805 (front endleaf 2 recto), purchased at Leigh's auction with purchase and binding prices scraped away, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 458 for £15.0.0; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, laid-in (front endleaf 2 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: wo/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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