[Liber sextus decretalium]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Liber sextus decretalium]
Classmark: BC Incunabula quarto BON
Creator(s): Boniface, Pope (1303)
Additional creator(s): Clement, Pope (1260-1314) (Other); Giovanni d'Andrea (1270-1348) (Other); Torti, Battista (1481-1536) (Printer); Cypressus, Georgius Petrus (Former owner); Risenfels, Ferdinand Heinrich Freiherr (1688-1754) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Baptistam de Tortis; Baptista de Tortis
Publication city: Venetijs
Date(s): Die.iiij.nove[m]bris. Mcccc.lxxxxi. [4 November 1491]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 104, 58 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/116888
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007740799705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-n⁸ A-E⁸ F-H⁶.
In two parts, dated: I) 4 November 1491; II) 10 December 1491.
Imprint from first colophon.
First colophon on n8v reads: Venetijs per Baptistam de Tortis. die.iiij.nove[m]bris. Mcccc.lxxxx.
Second colophon on H5r reads: Venetiis p[er] Baptistam de tortis. Mcccc.lxxxx.die.x.dece[m]bris.
With commentary by Giovanni d'Andrea.
Part II includes the Constitutiones of Clement V.
Printed in two columns with 82 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Part I has leaves 4-104 numbered in print at the top right of the text on rectos.
Part II has leaves 2- 57 numbered print at the top right of the text on rectos.
The first and last leaves of part II are blank.
Text printed in red and black.
Paragraph markers printed in red.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Printer's mark in red on H5v with the monogram BT.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib01006000.
Indexed in: GW 4888.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript.
The major initials on a4r and A2r are supplied and decorated in red and blue.
Other major initials supplied in red and blue.
Underlinings supplied in red.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century German binding of full pigskin over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frames of double fillets. The outer frame contains blind-tooled images of saints. The central panel contains a lozenge-shaped tool with a smaller tool at each outer corner, and stamped in capital letters in black at the top of the panel is the name: Clemen. The spine has four raised bands. In the first panel is a paper lettering piece with writing in black ink manuscript, crossed out: Baldus de Perusio. Written beneath in a different hand: Bonifacius VIII and Clemens V. Written directly onto the spine in the second panel in black ink manuscript is the Roman numeral I. At the base of the spine is a rectangular paper lettering piece on which is printed a small crown and beneath: Nr. 687. There is evidence that the book was once fastened with two thongs. Size: 428 x 300mm. Leaf size: 414 x 285mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript on leaf a1r: Ex libris Georgij Petri Cypressi Anno 1662.
Inscription in black ink manuscript on leaf a1r: Ferdinandus Henricus L. B de Risenfels.
Book label on the back pastedown, inverted: Bibliotheca Fidecomissaria Familiae Risenfelsianae Stabilitæ in Castro Domini Toparchici Seisenegg Nr. 687.
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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Profile: Ferdinand Heinrich, Freiherr von Risenfels (1688-1754)
Biography of Ferdinand Heinrich, Freiherr von Risenfels, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.