[Formularium instrumentorum ad usum Curiae Romanae].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, autographer, former owner.

Weiss, Johannes Andreas, autographer.

Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.

Catholic Church. Curia Romana.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Formularium instrumentorum ad usum Curiae Romanae.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Forms (Canon law).

Procedure (Canon law).

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

126 unnumbered leaves ; 28 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

oej. i.ma reis ecet (C) 1480 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Michael Wenssler], [not after 1480]

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.

Signatures: a¹² b-k⁸ l⁶ m-o⁸ p-q⁶.

Leaves a1 and q1 are blanks.

Chancery folio. Leaf A5v: 55 lines; area of text: 227 x 130 mm. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

In some copies the misprint "Taubla" on leaf q2 is corrected to "Tabula". Cf. BM 15th cent.

Local Notes:

Lea Library Inc F-254 imperfect: leaves a1 and q1 (blanks) wanting. Misprint "Taubla" on leaf q2. Leaves a2-p6 have early ms. foliation (Arabic numerals 1-119) in brown ink; a few ms. underlines and marginal notes and marks in brown ink in text; a few ms. marginal pencil marks in text and ms. pencil note in Lea's hand on back pastedown. Leaf size: 265 x 193 mm. Rubrication: underlines, initials, paragraph marks and occasional capital strokes supplied in red. From the library of Henry Charles Lea with his bookplate affixed to front pastedown and his autograph (1892) on recto of front free endpaper. Autograph of Johannes Andreas Weiss dated 1646. Ex libris of a former owner at foot of leaf q2r. Binding: full vellum with ms. title on spine. Bookseller's printed description of another edition pasted to front free endpaper. Leaves q2-q6 bound before leaf a2; q gathering damaged at inner margin with some leaves mended; pinpoint wormhole in inner margin of leaves a2-a11, d7-p6 and q2-q6; occasional dampstaining, usually at top outside corner of leaves or inner margin, throughout.

Cited in:

Goff F-254

BM 15th cent. III, p. 727 (IB.37095)

GW 10201

BSB-Ink. F-206

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1125, 1126

ISTC if00254000

OCLC:

249349604