Accession number
PML 77511
Creator
Platea, Franciscus de, -1460.
Object title
Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum.
Published
[Padua?] : [Printer of Platea, 'Opus restitutionum' (H 13034*)], [not after 1472]
Description
[136] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1982.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
BMC located this press near Venice; CIBN and R.C. Mathiesen, in Books at Brown 28 (1981) pp. 114-17, suggest Padua.
Copy dated 1472 by rubricator offered by E.P. Goldschmidt, cat. 135 (1966), no. 111.
Printed in types 107R (quires 7-8 and leaf 9/1) and 103R (quires 1-6 and 9/2-14).
Collation: [1-6¹⁰7-13¹⁰ 14⁶]: 136 leaves, leaves [14]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Initial spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 20.3 cm., temoin (leaf [6]/4): 29.7 x 20.5 cm.
BMC located this press near Venice; CIBN and R.C. Mathiesen, in Books at Brown 28 (1981) pp. 114-17, suggest Padua.
Copy dated 1472 by rubricator offered by E.P. Goldschmidt, cat. 135 (1966), no. 111.
Printed in types 107R (quires 7-8 and leaf 9/1) and 103R (quires 1-6 and 9/2-14).
Collation: [1-6¹⁰7-13¹⁰ 14⁶]: 136 leaves, leaves [14]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Initial spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 20.3 cm., temoin (leaf [6]/4): 29.7 x 20.5 cm.
Binding
16th/17th-century(?) Italian laced vellum over thin paper boards (30.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Vellum reused from another source, labeled "privilegium" on top cover. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, one red lombard and headlines, remaining initials completed in simple ink and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and manicules sporadically throughout. Contemporary manuscript quiring: alpha-numeric on rectos and numeric on final versos, and foliation.
Provenance
Bergamo (Lombardy), Church of St. Michael, inscription: "In Ec[c]l[es]ia parochialis S. Michaelis de Arca B[er]gomi," 16th century (leaf [14]/4v); E.K. Schreiber, cat. 9 (1981), no. 74; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Schreiber on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1982.
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