Accession number
PML 16357
Creator
Gratian, active 12th century
Object title
Incip[itur] discordantiu[m] canonu[m] [con]cordia.
Published
Moguncia: Petrus Schoiffer de Gernβheym, [13 August 1472].
Description
[413] leaves ; 49 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Incip[itur] discordantiu[m] canonu[m] [con]cordia.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [48]/7r: Anno incarnationis d[omi]ice .M. cccc.lxxij. Idib[us augustijs. Sanctissimo in [christ]o p[at]re ac d[omin]o/ d[omin]o Sixto pa]pa quarto po[n]tifice maximo. Illustrissimo/ nobilissime domus austrie Friderico/ Romanoru[m] rege gloriosissimo ! reru[m] dominis. Nobili necno[n] generoso Adolpho de Nassau archiepiscopatu[m] gere[n]te magu[n]tinensem. in nobili urbe Mogu[n]cia nostros apud maiores aurea dicta ! qua[m] diuina ec[iam] cleme[n]tia dono gratuito p[re] ceteris terra[rum] nationib[us] arte[m] impressoria dignata est illustrare ! hoc presens Gratiani decretum suis cu[m] rubricis ! non atrame[n]tali penna cannave ! s[ed] arte quada[m] ingeniosa imprime[n]di ! cu[n]ctipote[n]te adspira[n]ti deo Petrus schoiffer de gernβheym suis consignando scutis ! feliciter consummauit. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 5:118G and 6:92G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6-7¹⁰ 8⁶ 9⁴(3+1: cogitauerit) 10⁸(1+1: au[n]cte extra); 11⁸ 12⁶; 13-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17⁴ 18⁶; 19-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22⁶(5+1: ut pe[n]sio); 23-24¹⁰ 25-26⁸; 27-28¹⁰ 29⁸ 30⁸(1+1: omnino); 31¹⁰ 32¹⁰(?9+1: [I]Lli qui) 33-35¹⁰ 36⁸ 37⁶ 38⁸ 39⁶; 40-44¹⁰ 45⁸ 46⁶ 47-48⁸]: 413 leaves, leaves [48]/8 blank. Variant collation in GW: [a⁸ b-d¹⁰ e⁸ f-g¹⁰ h⁶ i⁵ k⁹ l⁸ m⁶ n⁹ o¹⁰ p-q⁸ r⁶ s⁴ t-u¹⁰ x⁸ y-z A¹⁰ B-C⁸ D-E¹⁰ F⁸ G⁹ H-I¹⁰ K¹¹ L-M¹⁰ N⁸ O⁶ P⁸ Q⁶ R⁸ S⁶ T-X¹⁰ Y⁸ Z⁶ aa-bb⁸], totalling 412 leaves without a final blank.
PML copy follows collation in BMC.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Commentary by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca).
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 47.9 x 33.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [48]/8 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [48]/7r: Anno incarnationis d[omi]ice .M. cccc.lxxij. Idib[us augustijs. Sanctissimo in [christ]o p[at]re ac d[omin]o/ d[omin]o Sixto pa]pa quarto po[n]tifice maximo. Illustrissimo/ nobilissime domus austrie Friderico/ Romanoru[m] rege gloriosissimo ! reru[m] dominis. Nobili necno[n] generoso Adolpho de Nassau archiepiscopatu[m] gere[n]te magu[n]tinensem. in nobili urbe Mogu[n]cia nostros apud maiores aurea dicta ! qua[m] diuina ec[iam] cleme[n]tia dono gratuito p[re] ceteris terra[rum] nationib[us] arte[m] impressoria dignata est illustrare ! hoc presens Gratiani decretum suis cu[m] rubricis ! non atrame[n]tali penna cannave ! s[ed] arte quada[m] ingeniosa imprime[n]di ! cu[n]ctipote[n]te adspira[n]ti deo Petrus schoiffer de gernβheym suis consignando scutis ! feliciter consummauit. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 5:118G and 6:92G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6-7¹⁰ 8⁶ 9⁴(3+1: cogitauerit) 10⁸(1+1: au[n]cte extra); 11⁸ 12⁶; 13-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17⁴ 18⁶; 19-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22⁶(5+1: ut pe[n]sio); 23-24¹⁰ 25-26⁸; 27-28¹⁰ 29⁸ 30⁸(1+1: omnino); 31¹⁰ 32¹⁰(?9+1: [I]Lli qui) 33-35¹⁰ 36⁸ 37⁶ 38⁸ 39⁶; 40-44¹⁰ 45⁸ 46⁶ 47-48⁸]: 413 leaves, leaves [48]/8 blank. Variant collation in GW: [a⁸ b-d¹⁰ e⁸ f-g¹⁰ h⁶ i⁵ k⁹ l⁸ m⁶ n⁹ o¹⁰ p-q⁸ r⁶ s⁴ t-u¹⁰ x⁸ y-z A¹⁰ B-C⁸ D-E¹⁰ F⁸ G⁹ H-I¹⁰ K¹¹ L-M¹⁰ N⁸ O⁶ P⁸ Q⁶ R⁸ S⁶ T-X¹⁰ Y⁸ Z⁶ aa-bb⁸], totalling 412 leaves without a final blank.
PML copy follows collation in BMC.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Commentary by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca).
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 47.9 x 33.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [48]/8 (blank).
Binding
18th/19th-century (Italian?) gilt-tooled vellum over heavy paper boards (49 x 34 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Red silk pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain, stuck-on endbands.
Variant title
Incipitur discordantium canonum concordia.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials (with manuscript guides), headlines (with manuscript guides), and paragraph marks; primary initials unrealized. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text. Alpha-numeric manuscript signatures. Collation inscription: "Fol. 411 Quires 47" (leaf [48]/7v).
Provenance
John Gott (1830-1906), purchase and bibliographic inscription, Rome, 1865 (front endleaf 1 verso); Henry Sotheran, bookseller's ticket (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Oct. 1909.
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