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Rubrice totius iuris canonici [quam] ciuilis.

Accession number
PML 196158.1
Object title

Rubrice totius iuris canonici [quam] ciuilis.

Published

[Lyon] : [Hémon David], [about 1496-1498].

Description

[48] leaves ; 14 cm. (8vo)

Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler and L.C. Harper C-1 Funds, 2015.
Notes
Title from first leaf (a1r): Rubrice totius iuris canonici [quam] ciuilis.
Explicit (leaf f8r): Et sic finis rubricarum seu titulorum tam iuris cesarei [quam] iuris pontifici sive canonici secundum ordine[m] titulorum [et] debitam situationem feliciter habetur.
Printed in David's types 1:69G and 2:100G.
Collation: [a]⁸ b-f⁸: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.7 x 8.8 cm.
PML copy is only copy known (according to ISTC/GW, as of August 2015).
Binding
15th-century (Breton?) blind-stamped leather over paper boards (14 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; hinges and edges repaired. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 1 clasp, wanting.
Variant title
Rubricae totius iuris canonici et civilis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, guide letters. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Raoul (d. 1527) and Étienne Bec-de-Lièvre (d. 1535), annotations (third front fly leaf); unidentified ownership stamps, pasted over (leaf a1r of Rubrice); Rennes, Capuchins, ownership inscription, 1708 (leaf a2r of Rubrice); Louis Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (1827-1901), inscription, 1884 (first fly leaf recto) and bookplate (front pastedown), and given by his widow, Marie de La Borderie to: Elie comte de Palys (1836-1908); Comte de Palys sale, Paris, 9 April 2014, lot 185; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick, May 2015.
Classification
Century
Department