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Incipit tabula restitucionu[m] usuraru[m] et excomu[n]icac[i]onu[m] edita per venerabilem dominum fratrem Franciscu[m] de Platea ordinis minorum.

Accession number
PML 24152
Creator
Platea, Franciscus de, -1460.
Object title

Incipit tabula restitucionu[m] usuraru[m] et excomu[n]icac[i]onu[m] edita per venerabilem dominum fratrem Franciscu[m] de Platea ordinis minorum.

Published

[Cracow] : [Printer of Turrecremata, Expositio (Kaspar Straube?)], .M.CCCC.LXXV [1475].

Description

[216] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Title from tabula caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Incipit, leaf [3]/1r: Incipit opus restitucionum utilissimum a reuerendo patre fratre Francisco de Platea Bononiense ordinis minorum diuiniq[ue] verbi predicatore eximio editum.
Date from colophon, leaf [21]/11r: [Printer's mark] Anno Nati[vi]tatis dom[in]i Iesu .M.CCCC.LXXV.
Printed in Printer of Turrecremata, Expositio (Kaspar Straube?) type 1:113G.
BMC doubtfully identifies the Printer of Turrecremata with Caspar Hochfeder: see BMC III (with notes in reprint assigning to Straube), and Geldner II p.361. For variants, see IBP.
Collation: [1-2¹²; 3-20¹⁰ 21¹²]: 216 leaves, leaf [21]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8 x 20.4 cm (temoin, leaf [6]/10: 31.5 x 20.7 cm).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [21]/12 (blank). Bottom of leaves [21]/10 and 11 remargined, with inscription cut away on leaf [21]/11r; leaf [10]/12r bottom margin with blank leaf pasted over, without loss to paper or text. Fore edge of final quire chipped and frayed.
Binding
Later (19th century?) vellum over stiff paper boards (31 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves
Variant title
Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (stops in quire [12]). Annotations: No marginal notation in text. Early Latin inscription (in Germanic/Polish hand?) and pen trials (leaf [21]/11v); 16th-century Latin inscription about monastic reform copied from Fasciculus temporum, in year 1474 (leaf [21]/11v). Inscription, illegible: "W D[????] S[??]," 15th/16th century (top edge).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gottschalk, Dec. 1926.
Classification
Century
Department