[Two leaves from Lectura super V libris Decretalium, vol. 2 / by Niccolò de' Tudeschi].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niccolò, de' Tudeschi, 1386-1445.

Contributor:

Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Printed Binding Waste Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Lectura super V libris Decretalium. Vol. 2

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church. Decretales Gregorii IX--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Decretales Gregorii IX (Catholic Church).

Canon law--Early works to 1800.

Canon law.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printed waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. J.M. Thomas (possibly to be identified with Joseph Miller Thomas, 1898-1979, who received his doctorate from Penn in 1923), probably on 11 September 1923 (accessioned 1931).

Penn Libraries copy has laid in two letters concerning the identification of these leaves, both on letterhead of the University of Pennsylvania Law School: one in ms. dated 14 October 1931 from Francis S. Philbrick to Clifford B. Clapp (1881-1969), which refers to "the problem of the sheets attached to the Latin edition of the Bible sent by you to my office", and one in typescript dated 14 October 1931 from John Dickinson (with his signature provided in ms. "per V.B.") to Francis S. Philbrick, which refers to "two fragmentary pages apparently torn from an incunabulum and inserted at the front and rear of an early edition of the Bible." The Bible in question is most likely Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, sive, Libri canonici, priscae Iudaeorum ecclesiae a Deo traditi (Londini: Excudebat Henricus Middletonus [and T. Vautrollier], impensis G.B[ishop], MDLXXX [1580]; STC (2nd ed.) 2056.4), now housed separately under call number BS90 1580. This item was presented to the Penn Libraries on 11 September 1923 by Dr. J.M. Thomas and accessioned 10 December 1931. The volume is 23 cm in height and the binding ca. 41 cm from the fore-edge of the left board to the fore-edge of the right board; it has been rebacked and provided with modern endpapers.

Thomas, J. M. (donor)

Philbrick, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1876-1970 (autograph) (inscription)

Clapp, Clifford B. (inscription)

Dickinson, John, 1894-1952 (inscription)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves ; 41 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Title from colophon of v. 2: Lectura d[omi]ni Nicolai Siculi su[per] parte p[ri]ma libri secu[n]di Decretaliu[m]

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Andreas Torresanus, de Asula], [24 July 1483]

Summary:

Leaves I2 and I3 (both imperfect, with loss of some text of inner columns, having been cut down for use in a binding) from the second volume of Niccolò de' Tudeschi's Lectura super V libris Decretalium, a six-volume commentary on the Decretales Gregorii IX printed 1482-1483 in Venice by Andreas Torresanus de Asula.

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger from content; statement of responsibility from ISTC.

Imprint information from ISTC. GW gives text of colophon of this volume on leaf 2E9v: Exactu[m] hoc opus videl[icet] lectura d[omi]ni Nicolai siculi su[per] parte p[ri]ma libri secu[n]di decretaliu[m]: inclytis famosis[que] characteribus optime quonda[m] in hac parte magistri Nicolai ienson gallici: q[uo] nihil p[re]sta[n]tius: nihil melius: nihilue dignius. Castigatu[m] vero habes adeo: vt adhibuit optim[us] vir andreas de asula Venetijs olym piadibus dominicis: Anno videl[icet]. M.cccclxxxiij. ix. calendas augusti. Laus Deo.

Super-royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf I3r: 69 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 315 (330) x 165[+] mm (portion of inner column and inner margin excised); col. width: 85 mm. Initial space with guide letter; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures (digital reproductions show catchwords on versos, here excised); without foliation.

GW gives signature statement for this volume: A-X⁸ AA-DD⁸ EE¹⁰ (leaves A1 and EE10 blanks). BSB-Ink. gives signature statement: A-E⁸ FF⁸ G-X⁸ AA-DD⁸ EE¹⁰.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 401 x 220[+] mm (leaf I2); 406 x 217[+] cm (leaf I3).

Rubrication: three-line red initial on leaf I3r; red capital stroke and underline on leaf I3r; paragraph marks supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy: each leaf mounted on both sides on stiff thin fabric tissue.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: inner margin and portion of inner columns of both leaves excised with some loss of text and loss of catchwords on versos; small holes and tearing along previous fold lines of both leaves with damage to and minor loss of text; glue stains(?) visible along edges and some previous fold lines of both leaves; head margin of leaf I2 excised with near total loss of headline; tail margin of leaf I2 mutilated.

Cited in:

Goff P-49

GW M47874

BSB-Ink. T-515

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1882

ISTC ip00049000

Bod-inc. P-017

OCLC:

954273910