Lectura super secundo Decretalium. (Pars secunda et tertia).

Accession number: 
PML 23012
Author: 
Niccolò, de' Tudeschi, Archbishop, 1386-1445.
Published: 
[Venice] : [Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen], [1479-1480].
Description: 
[148, 146] leaves ; 40.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1925.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint derived from both colophons.
First colophon, part I, leaf t5v: Explicit [secunda] p[ar]s sup[er] [secundo] decretaliu[m] do[mini] abbat[is] siculi venetijs imp[re]ssa impe[n]dio Iohannis de colonia Iohannisq[ue] Ma[n]then de gherretzem socio[rum] anno salut[is] christiane .M.cccc.lxxix. tertio nonas decembris. Laus deo.
Second colophon, part II, leaf s8v: Tertia p[ar]s sup[er] [secundo] decretaliu[m] libro clarissimi vtriusq[ue] iurisco[n]sulti d[omi]ni abbat[is] siculi finit. Impendio ac liberalitate Ioahnnis de colonia agrippiensi Ioha[n]nisq[ue] manthen gheretzen socio[rum] venetijs impressa decimo cale[n]das februarias anno salut[is] d[omi]nice .M.cccclxxix. Laus deo.
In two parts, dated: I) 3 Dec. 1479; II) 23 Jan. 1479/80.
Printed in Colonia and Manthen's types 5:200G and 14:94G.
Signatures, part I: a-r⁸ s-t⁶: 148 leaves, leaf a1 blank; part II: a-r⁸ s¹⁰: 146 leaves, leaves a1 and s10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.7 x 27 cm.
PML copy is part I only.

Binding: 
17th/18th-century Italian half laced vellum, with block printed paper sides, over paper boards (40.5 x 28.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Lectura super Decretalium, II:2

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian (Roman?) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks; illuminated primary initial and foliate border with armorial (leaf a2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Jorge da Costa (1406-1508), cardinal (1476) and archbishop (1464-1500) of Lisbon, armorial: blue with St. Catherine's wheel, surmounted with cardinal's hat (leaf a2r), from 1478 he was exile in Rome; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Nov. 1925.
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