Domini Johannis fabri vtriusque censure primarii in Justianum codicem Breuiarum: multis elucubratum ac castigatum vigiliis: necnon Torturarum ac questionum insignis repetitio cum de insigniis et armis Bartoli tractatu exquisitissimo

Description

Signatures: a-x⁸ y-z⁶ A-C⁸ aa⁵ D⁵.

Imprint from colophon.

Colophon on D4v reads: Explicit Breviariu[m] vtriusq[ue] iurus luminis d[omi]ni Jo. fabri Parhisijs impressum arte atq[ue] opera magistri Andree Boucard. Sumptib[us] vero [et] impendio Johannis alexandri collegij Andegauensis et Johannis petit Parisiensis bibliopolaru. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo CCCC.xcix.xviii.kl.ianuarii.

Also recorded as 15 December 1498.

C4r: Sequitur quedam utilis repetitio super materia quaestionum sive torturarum. C6v: Incipit tractatus domini Bartholi de Saxoferrato de insignis et armis.

Printed in two columns with 54 lines to a full column.

Large initial space with guide-letter on a3r.

Ornamental woodcut initials, many containing foliage, flowers, fabulous creatures and grotesque human heads.

On the title page is a woodcut printer's mark with the monogram IA.

The final leaf is blank.

Indexed in: ISTC no. if00009900.

Indexed in: H 6847; C 2399; Pell 4714; Coq(Bordeaux) F-1; Polain(B) 4355; IBE 2375; IGI 3784; IBP 2122; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 761; BSB-Ink F-2; GW 9632.

Features

Major initial on a3r supplied and decorated in blue and red ink manuscript.

Marginal annotations and manicules in red and black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, throughout.

Notes in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, on the title page.

Notes in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, on the recto and verso of the final blank leaf.

There are several illustrations, some fanciful, in red ink manuscript in the margins accompanying the annotations, sixteenth-century.

Painted beneath the printer's mark on the title page is a small coat of arms with three vertical stripes, two white and one blue, and a horizonal line of red above containing a flower in white at its centre.

Some paragraph markers and underlinings supplied in red.

Several of the ornamental woodcut initials have been coloured in red.

Bindings

Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century binding of full pigskin over pasteboard by Poincignon whose name is printed on the verso of the front free endpaper at the upper left of the page. The upper and lower covers are decorated with an identical design of a thick single fillet forming a border containing seven vertical and four horizonal lines of quadruple fillets. The spine has five raised bands and blind-tooled in the second panel are the words: J. Fabri Breviarium. Blind-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1499. Each spine panel is blind-tooled with quadruple fillets to form a border. The turn-ins are blind-tooled with a pattern of stylised foliage and the leaf edges are coloured brown and sprinkled red and black. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring a combination of the curl and spot patterns in blue, cream, red and brown. Size: 279 x 215mm. Leaf size: 269 x 200mm.

Provenance

Autograph in red ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, beneath the colophon on D4v: Matheus [?] Lerue.

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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