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Constitutiones.

Accession number
PML 20122
Creator
Clement V, Pope, approximately 1260-1314.
Object title

Constitutiones.

Published

Argentinen[sis] : Heinricum Eggesteyn, M.cccc.lxxi .xi. kalends. decembris [21 November 1471].

Description

[74] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1r: [I]oha[n]nes episcopus s[er]vus s[er]vorum dei dilectis filiis, doctoribus et scolaribus universis bononie commorantibus Salute[m] [et] apostolicam benedictionem.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [8]/4r: Hic Clementis quinti co[n]stitutionu[m] liber vnacu[m] apparatu famosissimi iuris doc[tor]. domini Jo[hannes] an[dreae] suis rubricationibus bellissime distinctus. Per venerabilem ph[ilosoph]ie magistru[m] ac etia[m] inclite Argentisen[sis] viuitatis ciue[m] bene meritu[m] d[omi]n[u]m Heinricu[m] Eggesteyn hui[us] artis peritissimu[m] ut innumera ante hac diuini humaniq[ue] iuris per ipsu[m] testantur volumina. summa cu[m] maturitate ac diligentia impressus est. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxi. xi. k[a]l[ends]. decembris.
Printed in Eggestein's types 2**:133G and 3:99G.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6-8⁸]: 74 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Colophon printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.8 x 29.4 cm.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (41.5 x 30.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports, with Wodhull arms, by Mrs. Weir (identified in Amherst catalogue). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Constitutiones (cum apparatu Joannis Andreae)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubricaiton, red initials, paragraph marks, running headlines, and subject headlines. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations, including textual corrections and commentary.
Provenance
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), binding and inscription, 29 Nov. 1799 (front endleaf 1 recto), purchased from Edwards for £4:4:- and binding: 1:12:- = 5:16:-, 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 757 for £5.5.0; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's London, 3 Dec. 1908, lot 232; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Dec. 1916.
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