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Finit lectura eximii doctoris domini Dominici d[e] S[ancto] Geminia sup[er] s[e]c[un]da p[ar]te sexti li[bri] decre[talii].

Accession number
PML 28454
Creator
Dominicus, de Sancto Geminiano, approximately 1375-1424.
Object title

Finit lectura eximii doctoris domini Dominici d[e] S[ancto] Geminia sup[er] s[e]c[un]da p[ar]te sexti li[bri] decre[talii].

Published

[Rome] : per magistrum Adam Rot, Anno etc .M.CCCC.LXXI. die vero lune ultima Septembris [30 September 1471].

Description

[272] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1931.
Notes
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf [28]/9r: Finit lectura eximii doctoris domini Dominici d[e] S[ancto] Geminia sup[er] s[e]c[un]da p[ar]te sexti li[bri] decre[talii]. Nulla calami exarat[i]o[n]e s[ed] quada[m] artificiosa karacterisandi ac imprime[n]di inue[n]tio[n]e. Co[m]pleta feliciter et op[er]ata p[er] magistru[m] Adam Rot clericu[m] Meten[sis] dioce[sis]. Anno [etc] .M.CCCC.LXXI. Die uero Lune ultima Septembris.
Printed in Rot's type 1:102R.
Collation: [1-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17-23¹⁰ 24⁸ 25-28¹⁰]: 272 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [28]/10 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 43.2 x 29.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [28]/10 (blank).
Binding
19th-century (English?) full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in an Italian retrospective style, over heavy paper boards (45 x 31 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Finit lectura eximii doctoris domini Dominici de Sancto Geminia super secunda parte sexti libri decretalii
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, with penwork decoration, and paragraph marks (C-type with extended upper stroke). Annotations: Contemporary/16th-century marginal notations sporadically throughout text, sometimes extensive. Contemporary manuscript headlines and alpha-numeric quire signatures. Early manuscript titles (leaf [1]/1r and bottom edge).
Provenance
Strasbourg, Collegiate Church of Saint Pierre-le-Jeune, inscription: "Collegii S. Petri junioris Argentinae," 17th century (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified shelfmark: L.i.15. (leaf [1]/1r); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [delta nu omega], purchased Jan. 1899 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3056; Giuseppe Martini, cat. 19 (1929), no. 169 for £250 and unidentified catalogue, no. 84 (description pasted-in at front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Martini, Aug. 1931.
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Department