PAULUS FLORENTINUS (Paulo Attavanti, ca 1445-1499). Breviarium totius juris canonici . Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne 1486. Chancery 2 o (270 x 193 mm). Collation : 1 4 (1r woodcut portrait of the author, 1v index to the abridgement of Gratian's decretals, 4v blank); 2 1 0 3-14 8 15 1 0 (2/1r blank, 2/1v author's dedication to Pope Innocent VIII, 2/2r Gratian, 15/10v blank); 16 8 17 6 (16/1r index to the later decretals, 16/2v blank, 16/3r Gregory IX's supplement by St Raymond of Peñafort, 17/1v Boniface VIII's Sext , 17/4r Clementines, 17/5v colophon, 17/6 blank). 134 leaves. Unmarked paper (characteristic of this press). Gothic types 4:71 (text), 2:115 (a few first words and headings). 50 lines and headline, double column. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Minor marginal worming at beginning and dampstain.) BINDING, formerly chained: contemporary South-German blind-tooled pigskin, over wooden boards, geometric design of intersecting triple fillets, incised initials LCV [Liber Conventualium de Villingen] on front cover (added), later Donaueschingen paper labels on spine, vellum pastedowns of two consecutive bifolia from a 12th-century South-West German liturgical manuscript containing the collects for Sts Nereus and Achilleus day (May 25) before Ascension to the 17th Sunday after Pentecost (late-Carolingian miniscule in black and red ink), original headbands (remains of chain hasp, clasp gone, minor stain to covers). Quarter-morocco box. Provenance : ownership date 1490 on 2/1r -- Frater Cunradus Debendorff, professor of theology (acquisition inscription dated 1499, Visitation day = 2 July) -- Villingen, Conventual Franciscans (initials on binding), whose library was removed after secularization to -- Donaueschingen, Court Library of the Princes zu Fürstenberg, sold at Sotheby's London, 1st July 1994, lot 243 -- purchased from Bernard Rosenthal, Berkeley, California, 1994. Third edition of Attavanti's abridged version of the chief portions of the Corpus iuris canonici . The author's portrait -- the first in a German printed book -- is a close copy of the woodcut that appeared in the first edition (Milan: Leonhard Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeler, 1479). IN ORIGINAL CONDITION. H * 7161; BMC II, 604; BSB A-811; Schreiber 4901; Schramm XVI, 924; Goff P-180.
PAULUS FLORENTINUS (Paulo Attavanti, ca 1445-1499). Breviarium totius juris canonici . Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne 1486. Chancery 2 o (270 x 193 mm). Collation : 1 4 (1r woodcut portrait of the author, 1v index to the abridgement of Gratian's decretals, 4v blank); 2 1 0 3-14 8 15 1 0 (2/1r blank, 2/1v author's dedication to Pope Innocent VIII, 2/2r Gratian, 15/10v blank); 16 8 17 6 (16/1r index to the later decretals, 16/2v blank, 16/3r Gregory IX's supplement by St Raymond of Peñafort, 17/1v Boniface VIII's Sext , 17/4r Clementines, 17/5v colophon, 17/6 blank). 134 leaves. Unmarked paper (characteristic of this press). Gothic types 4:71 (text), 2:115 (a few first words and headings). 50 lines and headline, double column. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Minor marginal worming at beginning and dampstain.) BINDING, formerly chained: contemporary South-German blind-tooled pigskin, over wooden boards, geometric design of intersecting triple fillets, incised initials LCV [Liber Conventualium de Villingen] on front cover (added), later Donaueschingen paper labels on spine, vellum pastedowns of two consecutive bifolia from a 12th-century South-West German liturgical manuscript containing the collects for Sts Nereus and Achilleus day (May 25) before Ascension to the 17th Sunday after Pentecost (late-Carolingian miniscule in black and red ink), original headbands (remains of chain hasp, clasp gone, minor stain to covers). Quarter-morocco box. Provenance : ownership date 1490 on 2/1r -- Frater Cunradus Debendorff, professor of theology (acquisition inscription dated 1499, Visitation day = 2 July) -- Villingen, Conventual Franciscans (initials on binding), whose library was removed after secularization to -- Donaueschingen, Court Library of the Princes zu Fürstenberg, sold at Sotheby's London, 1st July 1994, lot 243 -- purchased from Bernard Rosenthal, Berkeley, California, 1994. Third edition of Attavanti's abridged version of the chief portions of the Corpus iuris canonici . The author's portrait -- the first in a German printed book -- is a close copy of the woodcut that appeared in the first edition (Milan: Leonhard Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeler, 1479). IN ORIGINAL CONDITION. H * 7161; BMC II, 604; BSB A-811; Schreiber 4901; Schramm XVI, 924; Goff P-180.
Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!
Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.
Create an alert
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
