Accession number
PML 196158.4
Object title
Modus legendi in utroque jure: ab his que olim tum diminute cum superflue in eo posita fuere: exactissima nuper diligentia emendatus.
Published
Paris : Pierre le Dru, 27 November 1495
Description
[1] lxxv [1] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler and L.C. Harper C-1 Funds, 2015.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf k3v): Explicit libellus docens modu[m] studendi [et] lege[n]di contenta ac abbreviata utriusq[ue] iuris tam canonici [quam] civilis: in se [con]tinens titulos sive rubricas eiusdem iuris. Parisius impressus per magistrum Petrum le dru Anno d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.xcv. xxvii. novembris.
Printed in Le Dru's type 2:65G.
Collation: [a]b-i⁸ k⁴: 76 leaves, leaf k4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
Werner von Schussenried is named as author in an acrostic in the text (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.7 x 8.8 cm.
Colophon (leaf k3v): Explicit libellus docens modu[m] studendi [et] lege[n]di contenta ac abbreviata utriusq[ue] iuris tam canonici [quam] civilis: in se [con]tinens titulos sive rubricas eiusdem iuris. Parisius impressus per magistrum Petrum le dru Anno d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.xcv. xxvii. novembris.
Printed in Le Dru's type 2:65G.
Collation: [a]b-i⁸ k⁴: 76 leaves, leaf k4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
Werner von Schussenried is named as author in an acrostic in the text (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.7 x 8.8 cm.
Binding
15th-century (Breton?) blind-stamped leather over paper boards (14 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; hinges and edges repaired. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 1 clasp, wanting.
Variant title
Modus legendi abbreviaturas
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, guide letters. Annotations: No notations in text. Pen trials on leaves k3v and k4r-v (k4v pasted over).
Provenance
Raoul (d. 1527) and Étienne Bec-de-Lièvre (d. 1535), annotations (third front fly leaf); unidentified ownership stamps, pasted over (leaf a1r of Rubrice); Rennes, Capuchins, ownership inscription, 1708 (leaf a2r of Rubrice); Louis Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (1827-1901), inscription, 1884 (first fly leaf recto) and bookplate (front pastedown), and given by his widow, Marie de La Borderie to: Elie comte de Palys (1836-1908); Comte de Palys sale, Paris, 9 April 2014, lot 185; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick, May 2015.
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