[Super prima parte Codicis]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Super prima parte Codicis]
Other titles: Lectura super prima parte Codicis
Classmark: BC Incunabula/BAR
Creator(s): Bartolo da Sassoferrato (1314-1357)
Additional creator(s): Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529) (Printer); Zanis, Bartholomaeus de de Portesio (1486-1515) (Publisher); Serre, Hercule comte de (1776-1824) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Torresanus, Andreas; Zanis, Bartholomaeus de; Serre, Hercule; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Andreas Torresanus], per Bertolamaeum de portesio et Socijs
Publication city: Venetijs [Venice]
Date(s): 31 January 1486
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [134] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106464
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008484959705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶ e⁴ f-m⁸ n⁶ o-r⁸ s⁶.
Imprint from ISTC.
Cited in: The Brotherton Library, a catalogue of ancient manuscripts and early printed books, 1931, as: Lectura super primas parte Codicis.
Printed in two columns with 66 lines to a full column.
Printed headlines.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00193800.
Indexed in: H 2552; Pell 1910; CIBN B-125; IBP 821; IGI VI 1293-A; GW 3496.
Features
Occasional marginal annotations and notabilia in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
Guide-letters have been supplied in black ink manuscript.
Book numbers bave been provided in red ink manuscript in roman numerals at the top centre of versos and rectos above the printed headlines.
The major initials on d3r, l3r, o2v and q7r have been supplied in red, green, brown and gold against a dark blue background with stylised foliage in pale blue and white with gold dots.
Larger major initials have been supplied and decorated in red and blue.
Other major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Paragraph markers supplied alternately in red and blue.
Capital strokes supplied in yellow.
This copy is missing all before b6 and also leaf c1.
Some water damage and staining.
Bindings
Binding of half pigskin and brown paper over pasteboard by E. Morley of Leeds, whose name is stamped in black at the bottom of the front pastedown. The paper on the upper and lower covers has been decorated to resemble grained wood. The spine has five raised bands. Stamped in black in the second panel are the words: Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Stamped in black in the third panel are the words: Lectura Codicis. Stamped in black at the base of the spine are the place and date: Venice 1480-6. In the fifth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in black. Size: 414 x 288mm. Leaf size: 399 x 273mm.
Bound with 1 other publication. Volume contents: 1. Bartolo da Sassoferrato: [Super prima parte codicis], 1486. -- 2. Bartolo da Sassoferrato: [Super secunda parte codicis], 1480.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript on the recto of a leaf of vellum bound at the front of the text, mostly indecipherable but possibly: Ex libris phi[...]bion [...]ome. Drawn beneath the inscription is a device with crossed keys and a monogram, possibly: PF. Written further down the page is the word: Codex.
Inscription in black ink manuscript in French, nineteenth-century, on the verso of a leaf of vellum bound at the front of the text: Barthole imprimé à Venise en 1480 m'a été donné en 1811 par Mr Hercules De Serre nommé 1er président d'Hambourg.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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