[Repertorium iuris] (v.1-2)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Repertorium iuris] (v.1-2)
Other titles: Repertorium juris
Classmark: BC Incunabula q/CAL
Creator(s): Calderinus, Joannes (1365)
Additional creator(s): Wenssler, Michael (1472-1497) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Wenssler, Michael; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Michael Wenssler]
Publication city: [Basel]
Date(s): 12 December 1474
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 2 volumes ([258], [232] leaves)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/112325
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007740829705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint and title from ISTC.
Printed in two columns with 47 lines to a full column.
No signatures.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00051000.
Indexed in: Goff C-51.
Features
The first initial of each section is supplied and decorated in red, green and yellow with ornamentation of stylised foliage and flowers extending into the margins.
Other major initials supplied in red.
Paragraph markers and some capital strokes supplied in red.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century binding of full pigskin over wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with an identical design comprising a border and frame of quadruple fillets with a central panel decorated with rows of diagonal fillets containing fleurs-de-lys with flowers at the edges. The surrounding frame contains a repeating pattern of stylised foliage. Written in early black ink manuscript, now faded, at the head of the upper cover: Repertoriu[m] Juris Caldrini. The spine, which has been painted grey, has seven raised bands. Written directly onto the spine in the second panel in red ink manuscript are the words: Calderini Repertor. In the fifth and sixth panels, also in red ink manuscript, is a library number: DI 45. Written in red in the third panel, now faded, is the date: 1474. There is evidence that metal furniture in the form of round bosses was once attached to the upper and lower covers. The book was once fastened with two clasps, now removed. The upper board is
broken and damage to the head of the spine reveals the endband and sewing. Size: 395 x 300mm. Leaf size 380 x 282mm.
Provenance
Sixteenth-century inscription in black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of the first printed leaf: Ex monasterio Oibinensi. 1556. The book was once in the possession of the Monastery of Oybin in Saxony, Germany, close to the border with the Czech Republic.
Inscription in black ink manuscript near the outer margin of the recto of the first printed leaf: Caes. Colleg. [...] Iesu Pragae.
A later inscription beneath the first reads: Caes. Colleg. Soc. Jesu Pragae. The book once belonged to the Jesuits in Prague.
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
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.
Access and usage
Access
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