Accession number
PML 22101
Creator
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Object title
In nomine domini nostri ihesu [christ]i Codicis iustiniani sacratissimi principis p[er]petui augusti, repetite p[ro]lectionis.
Published
Maguncia : Petrum Schoyffer de Gernβsheym, .Mcccc.lxxv. ad .vij. kale[n]das februarias [26 January 1475].
Description
[324] leaves ; 49.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1943.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [37]/8v: Anno natiuitatis [christ]i .Mcccc.lxxv. ad .vij. kale[n]das februarias. S[an]c[t]issimo in [chirst]o p[at]re ac d[omi]no/ d[omi]no Sixto p[a]pa .iiij. Illustrissimo/ nobilissime domus austrie Friderico .iij. Romano[rum] imp[er]atore inuictissimo/ semp[er] augusto. Reuere[n]dissimo in [christ]o patre ac d[omi]no/ d[omi]no Adolpho archi[e]p[i]s[c]ule magu[n]tino. In nobili vrbe Magu[n]cia no[n] atrame[n]ti calamo ca[n]nave! s[ed] arte imp[re]ssoria (qua quide[m] etsi anti quitas diuino no[n] digna e[st] visa nidicio! n[ost]ra nichilominus temestate in dulta) Sacratissimi principis Iustiniani Codicem! cunctipote[n]ti faue[n]te deo Petrus schoyffer de Gernβheym suis consigna[n]do scutis/ feliciter consummauit. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 5:118G and 6:92G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-4¹⁰; 5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7⁶ 8⁸; 9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰; 12¹⁰ 13-14⁸ 15¹⁰ 16⁶(2+1: vendidisti; 5+1: placuit parere); 17¹⁰ 18⁸ 19¹⁰ 20¹²; 21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24-25⁸ 26⁶; 27-28¹⁰ 29-30⁸; 31-32¹⁰ 33⁸ 34⁴; 35⁸ 36⁶ 37¹⁰]: 324 leaves.
Paper format: Imprerial folio.
Commentary by Franciscus Accursius.
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
CIBN reports variants.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 48 x 33 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [37]/8v: Anno natiuitatis [christ]i .Mcccc.lxxv. ad .vij. kale[n]das februarias. S[an]c[t]issimo in [chirst]o p[at]re ac d[omi]no/ d[omi]no Sixto p[a]pa .iiij. Illustrissimo/ nobilissime domus austrie Friderico .iij. Romano[rum] imp[er]atore inuictissimo/ semp[er] augusto. Reuere[n]dissimo in [christ]o patre ac d[omi]no/ d[omi]no Adolpho archi[e]p[i]s[c]ule magu[n]tino. In nobili vrbe Magu[n]cia no[n] atrame[n]ti calamo ca[n]nave! s[ed] arte imp[re]ssoria (qua quide[m] etsi anti quitas diuino no[n] digna e[st] visa nidicio! n[ost]ra nichilominus temestate in dulta) Sacratissimi principis Iustiniani Codicem! cunctipote[n]ti faue[n]te deo Petrus schoyffer de Gernβheym suis consigna[n]do scutis/ feliciter consummauit. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's types 5:118G and 6:92G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-4¹⁰; 5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7⁶ 8⁸; 9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰; 12¹⁰ 13-14⁸ 15¹⁰ 16⁶(2+1: vendidisti; 5+1: placuit parere); 17¹⁰ 18⁸ 19¹⁰ 20¹²; 21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24-25⁸ 26⁶; 27-28¹⁰ 29-30⁸; 31-32¹⁰ 33⁸ 34⁴; 35⁸ 36⁶ 37¹⁰]: 324 leaves.
Paper format: Imprerial folio.
Commentary by Franciscus Accursius.
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
CIBN reports variants.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 48 x 33 cm.
Binding
15th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (49.5 x 34 cm), sewn on 5 supports by the Windberg Prämonstratenserkloster bindery (EBDB w002305 (with stamps also used at the Löwe dreieckig II bindery, EBDB w002870), active late 15th-early 16th century). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. Furniture and 2 clasps, missing.
Variant title
Codex Justinianus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and underlining; primary initial in blue (leaf [1]/1r only); miniatures at book incipits unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Quires numbered in Arabic numerals along bottom edge of first leaf.
Provenance
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Joseph Baer, Oct. 1923.
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