Accession number
PML 23677
Creator
Costa, Stefano, active 15th century.
Object title
Tractatus de [con]sanguinitate [et] affinitate / editus per clarissimu[m] iuris vtriusq[ue] doctore[m] d[omi]n[u]m Stephanus Costa[m].
Published
Impressum Papie : per Martinum de Laualle de Monteferrato, .M.cccc.lxxxviiij die .iii. mensis Augusti [3 August 1489].
Description
[12] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 43 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf a2r: Tractatus de [con]sanguinitate [et] affinitate editus per clarissimu[m] iuris vtriusq[ue] doctore[m] d[omi]n[u]m Stephanus Costa[m] lege[n]te[m] iura canonica in felici gymnasio Papiensi.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b5r: Explicit elegans tractatus de consanguinitate [et] affinitate editus p[er] subtilissimum iuris vtriusq[ue] doctore[m] d[omi]n[um] Stephanu[m] Costam in studio Papiensi legente[m]. Impressum Papie per Martinu[m] de Laualle de Mo[n]teferrato. Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxviiij die .iii. mensis Augusti.
Printed in Martinus de Lavalle's types 2:92/93G, 3:180G, and 5:78G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves, leaves a1 and b6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
2 woodcuts: tree of consanquinity (leaf a6v) and tree of affinity (leaf b5v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 28.3 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b5r: Explicit elegans tractatus de consanguinitate [et] affinitate editus p[er] subtilissimum iuris vtriusq[ue] doctore[m] d[omi]n[um] Stephanu[m] Costam in studio Papiensi legente[m]. Impressum Papie per Martinu[m] de Laualle de Mo[n]teferrato. Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxviiij die .iii. mensis Augusti.
Printed in Martinus de Lavalle's types 2:92/93G, 3:180G, and 5:78G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves, leaves a1 and b6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
2 woodcuts: tree of consanquinity (leaf a6v) and tree of affinity (leaf b5v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42 x 28.3 cm.
Binding
19th/early 20th quarter parchment, with 15th/16th century music manuscript on parchment sides with extended (Yapp) fore-edges, over paper boards (43 x 29 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
De consanguinitate et affinitate
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Several contemporary marginal notations throughout work, mainly keywords/phrases.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Tauber & Weil, June 1926.
Classification
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