[Con]suetudines feudo[rum].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.

Standardized Title:

Libri feudorum.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Feudal law--Early works to 1800.

Feudal law.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Switzerland -- Basel -- 1478.

Penn Provenance:

Dropsie, Moses A. (Moses Aaron), 1821-1905 (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Library (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy)

Stift Sankt Peter Waldsee (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Augustinian Canons (Bad Waldsee, Germany) (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 (stamp) (CJS Incunable copy)

Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (stamp) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[36] leaves ; 40 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Consuetudines feudorum

Goff title: Novellae constitutiones, etc.

Fingerprint:

naig r.dr m-.h ti*R (C) 1478 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Michael Wenssler], [29 November 1478]

Notes:

Title from incipit of text on leaf [a]1r which reads: Incipiu[n]t [con]suetudines feudo[rum]. Et primo de hijs qui feudu[m] dare p[ossu]nt. Et qualiter acquirat[ur] et retineat[ur].

Imprint from ISTC.

"Two settings of the Libri feudorum are known (II and IIa)"--ISTC. Setting II: leaf [a]1r: the final letter of the second word ("[con]suetudines") of the incipit of text is a long s; the first line of the incipit of commentary reads: [blank]Ncipiu[n]t. Quida[m] habe[n]t aliter rubrica[m]. sc[ilicet] ita quib[us] modis. Setting IIa: leaf [a]1r: the final letter of the second word ("[con]suetudines") of the incipit of text is a short s; the first line of the incipit of commentary reads: [blank]Ncipiu[n]t. Quida[m] h[abe]nt aliter rubrica[m] .s[cilicet]. ita quibus modis. For more detailed notes on differences between the two settings, see GW.

Royal folio, printed in double columns (text surrounded by commentary in each column). Leaf [a]1r: 67 lines of commentary; area of text: 307 x 221 mm; column width: 101 mm. Initial spaces, a few with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords. Incipit of text on leaf [a]1r rinted in red.

Second of three parts (Novellae constitutiones ; Libri feudorum ; Codex (Corpus juris civilis). Book 10-12) printed together by Michael Wenssler in Basel and completed on 29 November 1478 according to the colophon of the third part. See GW.

Signatures: [a]-[c]¹⁰ [d]⁶.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy is setting II, in which the final letter of the second word ("[con]suetudines") of the incipit of text is a long s and the first line of the incipit of commentary reads: [blank]Ncipiu[n]t. Quida[m] habe[n]t aliter rubrica[m]. sc[ilicet] ita quib[us] modis.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 387 x 272 mm.

CJS Incunable copy: rubrication: 5-line red and blue initial Q with penwork extensions supplied on leaf [a]1r; initials and paragraph marks supplied alternately in red and blue; capital strokes and underlines supplied in red.

CJS Incunable copy has illustrated bookplate of Moses A. Dropsie on front pastedown; bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING") on front pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy has early manuscript ownership inscription ("Canon: Reg: in Waldsee") of the Augustinian canons of Stift Sankt Peter Waldsee (Bad Waldsee, Germany) in head margin of leaf [a]1r.

CJS Incunable copy has oval blue ink stamp ("FROM THE LIBRARY OF MAYER SULZBERGER.") on leaves [a]1r and [d]6v.

CJS Incunable copy has round blue ink stamp (monogram "VF" within a wreath of leaves) of the Universität Freiburg im Breisgau on leaves [a]1r and [d]6v.

CJS Incunable copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy in German affixed to front pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy: leaves lightly wormed.

Cited in:

Goff J-590

BM 15th cent. III, page 725 (IC.37103; setting IIa)

GW 7752

BSB-Ink. C-546

BN cat. des incun. C-623

ISTC ij00590000

OCLC:

27093177