Accession number
PML 20143
Creator
Pontano, Lodovico, 1409-1439.
Object title
Prefatio in sing[u]laribus domini ludovici de roma.
Published
[The Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [not after 1472?]
Description
[60] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC. Printer also identified as "Printer of the Speculum humanae salvationis."
Printed in Prototypography types 4:144G and 5:123/124G.
Collation: [1¹⁶ 2²⁸ 3¹⁶]: 60 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Laurus de Palatiis.
On the text see R. Feenstra, Le droit savant au Moyen Age (London, 1986), p.7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC. Printer also identified as "Printer of the Speculum humanae salvationis."
Printed in Prototypography types 4:144G and 5:123/124G.
Collation: [1¹⁶ 2²⁸ 3¹⁶]: 60 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Laurus de Palatiis.
On the text see R. Feenstra, Le droit savant au Moyen Age (London, 1986), p.7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
19th-century English straight-grained gilt- and blind-tooled maroon morocco over paper boards (28 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with ticket of R. Storr of Grantham. Purple paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Singularia iuris. Tractatus de praesumptionibus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes. Annotations: Sporadic contemporary manuscript headlines.
Provenance
Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1615; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), his sale, Sotheby's London, 3 Dec. 1908, lot 697; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased April 1909, his sale, Sotheby's, part I, 11 Feb. 1913, lot 619; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Nov. 1917.
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