tij00553000

Text-inc Id:

tij00553000

Headings:

Justinianus Digestum vetus (with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius and Summaria of Hieronymus Clarius)

Subjects:

law-civil

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page, in red] ‘Digestum vetus de Tortis.’ [Books I-XXIV.2; 'a close reprint of the 1494 edition, with the same number of copies specified in the prefatory note' (BMC V 330). See also Bod-Inc J-245.]
2. a1r Clarius, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardinus Crassus ‘Bernardino Crasso Clarissimo iurisconsutlo Veneto Hieronymus Clarius Brix. iuris. u(triusque iuris) doctor Prothonotarius et comes apostolicus salutem.’ Incipit: ‘Constat Bernardine Crasse antiqua illa tempora ...’ Explicit: ‘... credo te non parum tua adhortatione gavisurum. Vale maxima pars felicitatis mee.’
3. a2r Justinianus: Digestum vetus ‘In nomine Domini Iesu Christi Imperator Iustinianus Cesar Flavius Alamanicus Gotichus Franchus Germanicus Atticus Affricus Vandalicus pius felix inclytus victor ac triumphator sempre augustus Theophilo et Dorotheo viris illustribus et antecessoribus salutem. [in red.]’ Incipit: ‘[O]mnem totius reipublice nostre sanctionem a nobis iam esse purgatam ...’ T4r Explicit: ‘... Et si concubinam sibi adhibuerit: idem erit probandum.’
4. a2r Clarius, Hieronymus: Summaria ‘[I]n nomine Domini amen [in red.] Rubrica ista simul cum constitutione est quedam epistola, et dividitur in tres partes. ... Bartolus.’ T4r Explicit: ‘...’
5. a2r Accursius: [Glossa ordinaria.] ‘[Note]a Imperator quia imperat subditis. ...’ T4r Explicit: ‘... [Note]b Destinaverit: idest proposuerit aliam habere in sponsam.’
6. T4r Colophon: ‘Venetiis per Baptistam de Tortis. M.cccc.lxxxxviij. die quinto Octobris. Finis.’
7. T4v [Table of contents] ‘Tabula omnium rubricarum per alphabetum posita et ad loca sua per ordinem remissa [title in red.]’
8. T5r ‘Registrum Digesti veteris.’ [Printer's device, in red.]

Imprint:

Venice Baptista de Tortis f° Secundo folio: (a3, running title) Proemium (glossa) sicut et exquestor (textus) -bis idest Theophilum et Dorotheum 5 Oct. 1498

Collation:

a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-R⁸ S-T⁶. First leaf a1 unsigned; last leaf T6 blank. 356 ll. [numbered 2-354.]

References:

Source: Cambridge UL; British Library (IC.21494) ISTC: ij00553000 BMC V 330. Created by L. Nuvoloni and A. Panzanelli.

Cambridge Metadata:

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=245  10$aDigestum uetus de tortis.
=246  3$aDigestum vetus de Tortis.
=260  $aVenice :$bBaptista de Tortis,$c5 October 1498.
=300  $a354, [2] leaves:$bDevice (woodcut) ;$c426 mm. (fol.)
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=500  $aA close reprint of the 1494 edition (ISTC ij00551000), including the dedication letter to Bernardinus Crassus with reference to 1500 copies: see BM 15th century, V, 330.
=500  $aWith the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius and Summaria of Hieronymus Clarius, including excerpts from the lecturae by Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Paulus de Castro, Baldus de Ubaldis, and Alexander de Tartagnis: see Bod-inc 251.
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=500  $aPrinted running titles throughout.
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=563  $aBinding:  Blind-tooled brown calf over slightly cushioned oakwood boards, sewn on five double-split whittawed leather spine bands, with braided endbands with hemp core and whittawed leather brading, lacing through the spine leather, parchment pastedowns, two brass plaquettes holding fastening leather straps and brass [?] clasps at fore-edge of lower board [all missing and substituted by later ones], two decorated brass catches at fore-edge of upper board (similar to J. A. Szirmai, The archaeology of medieval bookbinding, Aldershot, c1999, p. 256, fig. 9.50 [a]), brass shoes protecting the corners [most wanting], and fake raised climbing link stiches in head and tail spine compartments, The Netherlands [?], late 15th or early 16th century; the blind-tools including tools in foliate design, a lily in a lozenge and an elephant; the watermark of the upper free endpaper (coat-of-arms: quartered, 1 and 4 a fleur-de-lys, 2 and 3 a dolphin; over it a crown with four strawberry leaves) similar to Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries (WILC), WM I 55726 [http://watermark.kb.nl/search/view/id/55726].  Manuscript title "II vetus" in Gothic hand on upper board, The Netherlands, early 16th century.  Shelfmark "57" on paper slip, 18th [?] century, pasted onto second spine compartment.  Manuscript title "Digestum / Vol. I / vetus" on paper slip pasted on first spine compartment, 19th [?] century.  Binding identical to Inc.0.B.3.53[1546] mentioned above.$5UkCU
=599  $aDecoration:  Initial in blue with penwork decoration in red on leaf a2 recto, initials in blue, some with reserved decoration, supplied by hand, The Netherlands [?], late 15th or early 16th century.$5UkCU
=599  $aAnnotations:  Marginal manuscript nota signs, including maniculae, notes in cursive hands, and underlining of text, The Netherlands [?], late 15th and 16th century.$5UkCU
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=700  1$aCastro, Paul de,$d-1439,$eglossator.
=700  1$aUbaldi, Baldo degli,$d1327?-1400,$eglossator.
=700  1$aTartagni, Alessandro,$d1424-1477,$eglossator.
=700  1$aChiari, Girolamo,$dactive 15th century,$eeditor.
=700  1$aCrassus, Bernardinus,$dfl. 1490,$ededicatee.
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