Decretum de Tortis
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Decretum de Tortis
Other titles: Decretum; Decretum (cum apparatu Bartholomaei Brixiensis)
Classmark: BC Incunabula q/GRA
Creator(s): Gratian
Additional creator(s): Bartolomeo da Brescia (1258) (Commentator); 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)
Related people: Bartolomeo; Torti, Battista; Cypressus, Georgius Petrus; Risenfels, Ferdinand Heinrich; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per Baptistam de Tortis; Baptista de Tortis
Publication city: Venetijs
Date(s): Mcccclxxxxix. die xx.Aprilis. [20 April 1499]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [3] 2-335, [1] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/116889
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007753379705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-Q⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on N7v reads: Venetijs per Baptistam de Tortis.Mcccclxxxxix. die xx.Aprilis.
Text surrounded by the commentary of Bartholomaeus Brixiensis.
Printed in two columns with 82 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Title page printed in red.
Text printed in red and black.
Paragraph markers printed in red.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Printer's mark in red on leaf N8r with the monogram BT.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00390000.
Indexed in: Goff G390; H 7917; Will 43; Polain(B) 1688; IBP 2469; IDL 2051; IGI 4415; Sajó-Soltész 1462; Sack(Freiburg) 1604; Hunt 2680; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 857; BSB-Ink G-287; GW 11386.
Features
The major initial on a4r is supplied and decorated in red and blue.
Other major initials supplied in red and blue.
Underlinings in red ink manuscript.
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 word: Decretvm. The spine has four raised bands. In the first panel is a paper lettering piece with writing in black ink manuscript: Francois Fradin Decretrum de Tortis. Written directly onto the spine in the second panel in black ink manuscript is the Roman numeral V. At the base of the spine is a rectangular paper lettering piece on which is printed a small crown and beneath: Nr. 841. There is evidence that the book was once fastened with two thongs. Size: 425 x 290mm. Leaf size: 416 x 280mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript on leaf a1r: Ex libris Georgij Petri Cypress Anno 1662.
Book label on the front pastedown with the number 332 in black ink manuscript, partially obscured by a later book label.
Book label on the front pastedown: Bibliotheca Fidecomissaria Familiae Risenfelsianae Stabilitæ in Castro Domini Toparchici Seisenegg Nr. 841.
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.