S[e]c[un]da pars secu[n]di decretaliu[m] libri Nicolai siculi ...

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)

Standardized Title:

Lectura super V libris Decretalium. Pars 2.2

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Catholic Church.

Ecclesiastical law--Early works to 1800.

Ecclesiastical law.

Canon law--Early works to 1800.

Canon law.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Venice -- 1483.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Physical Description:

[134] leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 44 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Text begins: Hec rubrica satis continuata fuit superius in precedenti rubrica s[ed] magis specifice pot[uit] co[n]tinuari ...

Place of Publication:

[Venice : Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 13 March 1483]

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: gatherings 2q and 2r only (leaf 2r6 mutilated with loss of woodcut printer's device and portion of colophon). Title, statement of responsibility and imprint information from colophon as transcribed by GW; first lines of text from leaf 2a2r as transcribed by GW. Signature statement and foliation from BSB-Ink. Walsh notes that the first and last leaves are blank, but the last leaf is in fact printed on the recto.

Third volume of a six-volume set of Niccolò de' Tudeschi's commentaries on the Decretales Gregorii IX, the whole printed by Andreas Torresanus de Asula (using the types of Nicolas Jenson) in Venice, 1482-1483.

Colophon on leaf 2r6r reads: Exactu[m] hoc opus videlicet s[e]c[un]da pars secu[n]di decretaliu[m] libri Nicolai siculi inclytis i[n]strumentis famosisq[ue] characteribus optime quonda[m] in hac arte magistri Nicholai Ienson gallici quo nihil p[re]stantius nihil melius nihilue dignius. Castigatu[m] vero h[ab]es adeo vt nihil sit ex omni [par]te addendu[m]. Cura[m] vero ac dilige[n]tia[m] adhibuit optimus vir Andreas de asula Venetijs olympiadibus d[omi]nicis a[n]no videlicet. M.cccclxxxiij. tertio idus Martij. Laus deo.

Super-royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf 2q1r: 69 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 318 (331) x 195 mm.; col. width: 85 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures and catchwords; without foliation. Woodcut printer's device in red on leaf 2r6r.

Signatures: 2a-2q⁸ 2r⁶ (leaf 2a1 blank).

Local Notes:

RBC copy bound with: Niccolò, de' Tudeschi. Tertia [par]s decretaliu[m] libro Clarissimi vtriusq[ue] iurisco[n]sulti d[omi]ni abbat[is] siculi ... [Venice] : Impendio ac liberalitate Ioha[n]nis de colonia agrippinensi Ioha[n]nisq[ue] manthen gheretzen socio[rum] venetijs impressa, [D]ecimo Cale[n]das februarias anno salut[is] d[omi]nice. M.cccclxxix [i.e. 23 January 1480].

RBC copy is part of a volume containing gatherings from three works by Niccolò de' Tudeschi -- Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars tertia), Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars prima), and Lectura super V libris Decretalium -- bound together as follows: gatherings h, e, d, f, g, i, k, l and n of Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars tertia); gathering p of Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars prima); gatherings p and q of Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars tertia); gathering r of Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars prima); gathering r and leaf [long s]1 of Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars tertia); gatherings s, t, v, y and A, leaves B3-B8, gatherings H and E, leaves K3-K6 and gathering C of Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars prima); gatherings 2q and 2r (leaf 2r6 bound in before 2r1) of Lectura super V libris Decretalium; and leaves [long s]2-[long s]9 of Lectura super secundo Decretalium (pars tertia).

Leaf size: 417 x 270 mm.

RBC copy: without rubrication.

RBC copy has a few early ms. notes, underlines, marginal marks, and pen tests in text; occasional ink spots and smears in text.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Thomas J. Symonds.

RBC copy has partially illegible early autograph ("J[...] Hinson[?]") at foot of leaf 2q7r; early ms. ornament flanked by initials "E" and "FF" on leaf 2r6r; partially illegible early ms. provenance(?) inscription ("[...] vobis venerabili viro [...] legu[m] doctori alme curie [...]fulsito[?] vestroue aut in [...] alio [...] quocun[que] Pars Discreti viri [...] maximus[?] Rectorie[?] ecclesie [par]och[ial]is de [...]t Eborum [...] et [...] et [...]") on leaf 2r6v.

RBC copy bound in full modern parchment; central gold-tooled ornament on each board; title ("GRATIANUS DECRETA") stamped in gold at head of spine; imprint ("VENICE 1479") stamped in gold at foot of spine; evidence of ms. fore-edge title.

RBC copy: portion of leaf 2r6 torn off with loss of woodcut printer's device and portion of colophon; tail margin of leaf 2r1 torn off with minor damage to last line of text and loss of signature mark.

Cited in:

Goff P-49

GW M47874

BSB-Ink. T-515

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

ISTC ip00049000

OCLC:

1019664602