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De servitutibus urbanorum et rusticorum praediorum.

Accession number
PML 28516
Creator
Cipolla, Bartolomeo, -approximately 1477.
Object title

De servitutibus urbanorum et rusticorum praediorum.

Published

[Perugia] : [Petrus Petri de Colonia], [about 1475]

Description

[70, 62] leaves ; 43 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1931.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
Unassigned in Goff and by Proctor; Veneziani assigns to Petrus Petri. BMC assigns in addition to Johannes Nicolai, and GW to Vydenast and associates, about 1473/74.
PML Checklist assigns to Petrus Petri de Colonia and Johannes Nicolai de Bamberga.
Printed in Petri's type 1c:108/109R.
Collation, part I (De servitutibus urbanorum praediorum): [1⁸ 2⁶; 3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8¹⁰]: 70 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part II (De servitutibus rusticorum praediorum): [9-13¹⁰ 14¹²]: 62 leaves, leaf [14]/12 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.9 x 28.5 cm.
Binding
Contemporary quarter blind-stamped pigskin over beech boards (43 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with some tools similar to the Erfurt Carthusian bindery Fogel-Frenckel (EBDB w000226, see also Schunke, Schwenke-Sammlung, II: 83, and with a scroll stamp inscribed "Joseph Maig"); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves (renewed?); modern decorative stuck-on endbands. 2 clasps and parchment reinforcement strip along pigskin edge. Manuscript title on paper label (top board).
Variant title
Checklist title: De servitutibus praediorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, primarily in first part, in several hands. Contemporary Arabic foliation.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Hiersemann, Oct. 1931.
Classification
Century
Department