Singularia iuris
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Singularia iuris
Classmark: BC Incunabula q/SAN
Creator(s): Pontano, Lodovico (1409-1439)
Additional creator(s): Mattaselanus, Matthaeus (Other); Torti, Battista (1481-1536) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Mattaselanus, Matthaeus; Torti, Battista; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per Baptistam de tortis; Baptista de Tortis
Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): M.cccclxxxxvj. di.xx.septembris. [20 September 1496]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [70] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/279863
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008569739705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
a-c⁶ d-e⁸ 1⁶ 2⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on e8v reads: Venetiis per Baptistam de tortis. M.cccclxxxxvj di.xx.septembris.
Includes: Singularia juris dicta by M. Mattaselanus.
Printed in two columns with 71 lines to a full column.
The leaves are numbered in print at the top of the right-hand column of text on the rectos.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00932100.
Indexed in: H 13273; Polain(B) 3240; IBE 4738; IGI 8017; IBP 4552.
Features
This copy is lacking all except the leaves numbered 25-30 (signatures e1-e8), i.e. the Singularia iuris dicta by Matthaeus Mattaselanus. The first two leaves are both numbered 25.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding of half pigskin over wooden boards. The pigskin, where it overlaps onto the upper and lower boards, is blind-tooled with a repeating pattern of stylised foliage between double fillets. The spine has four raised bands. Written in black ink manuscript on paper lettering pieces in the first and second panels are the names of the seven works bound together in this volume. At the top of the upper board there is writing in an early hand in black ink manuscript over which has been affixed a paper lettering piece with the titles of the seven works bound together in this volume written on it in black ink manuscript. Fragments of metal and leather on the lower board and nails on the upper board indicate that the book was fastened with two clasps, the catch on the upper board. Watermark on the back pastedown of a crown or mitre surmounted by a cross. There is damage to the head of the spine revealing the endband and the upper board and spine have
suffered worm damage. Size: 442 x 300mm. Leaf size: 427 x 285mm.
Bound with 6 other publications. Volume contents: 1. Sangiorgio, G: Prepositus super usibus feudorum, 1498. -- 2. Porcio, C: Lectura super primo, secundo et tertio libro institutionum, 1504. -- 3. Cipolla, B: De simulatione contractuum, 1498. -- 4. Castiglionchio, L: Allegationes, 1498. -- 5. Corsetti, A: Singularia et notabilia, 1490. -- 6. Pontano, L: Singularia iuris, 1496, ff. 25-30. -- 7. Dinus de Mugello: Consilia, 1496.
Provenance
An ink stain on the opposite leaf indicates that an oval purple library stamp has been cut out of the bottom of leaf e1.
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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