Praxis partitionum et collationum inter haeredes : secundum ius regium Lusitaniae, et iuxta ius commune, admodum necessaria & vtilis tam scholasticis, quam in foro versantibus / autore Alvaro Valasco ... ; cum indice capitum in initio, & altero legum, altero rerum & verborum locupletissimis in fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaz, Alvaro, 1526-1593.

Contributor:

Valasco de Govea, Francisco.

Loureiro, Diogo Gomes, active 17th century, printer.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Lea Library Maintenance Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Partition of decedents' estates--Portugal--Early works to 1800.

Partition of decedents' estates.

Partition of decedents' estates--Spain--Early works to 1800.

Inheritance and succession--Portugal--Early works to 1800.

Inheritance and succession.

Inheritance and succession--Spain--Early works to 1800.

Spain.

Portugal.

Penn Provenance:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990 (former owner) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 178 leaves, 33 unnumbered leaves ; 27 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

a.5. S.js n-m. iuca (3) 1605 (A)

Place of Publication:

Conimbricae : Ex officina Didaci Gomez Loureyro academiae architypographi ..., Anno D[omi]ni 1605.

Notes:

Edited by the son of the author, Francisco Valasco de Govea. Cf. dedicatory epistle.

Colophon on leaf 2N3v.

Signatures: [par.]⁶ A-2F⁶ 2G⁴ 2H-2M⁶ 2N⁴(-2N4?).

Title in red and black.

Engraved title vignette.

Initials, head-piece and tail-pieces.

Text printed primarily in double columns with marginalia.

Errata on leaf 2N3v.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lea Library Maintenance Fund.

Cassuto Collection copy has some early ms. underlines and marginal marks in brown ink in text; ms. correction to text in brown ink on leaf 2D6r; partially illegible ms. inscriptin ("Ado. Frco. Va[...]degonnea[...]") in brown ink at foot of leaf 2G4v.

Cassuto Collection copy has 1 small paper leaf of ms. notes in pencil laid in.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2014 from the Cassuto family in Portugal.

Cassuto Collection copy bound in full sprinkled leather; 4 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title ("ALASC DE PRATO") stamped in gold on spine.

Cassuto Collection copy: leaves at beginning of volume wormed with damage to text and running title (some mended with Japanese tissue in head margin); wormhole in fore-edge margin of leaves O2-R2; wormhole in upper portion of leaves [par.]1-V5 with minor damage to text; leaves dampstained at head margin.

OCLC:

885926515