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Egregij theologie professoris magistri Pauli Flore[n]tini diui Ordinis Sancti Spirit[us] de Roma totius canonici juris breuiarium : primo Decretoru[m] secundo Decretaliu[m] perutile ad colendissimu[m] Patrem & Dominu[m] Innocentiu[m] ejusdem alme religionis generale[m] preceptore[m] ac Romane dignitat[is] decus feliciter jncipit.

Title in ISTC: Breviarium totius juris canonici, sive Decretorum breviarium

Impressu[m] Me[m]ming[en] : Per Albertum Ku[n]ne d[e] Duderstat, anno salutis 1486.

[4], CXXIX, [1] leaves : portrait ; 29 cm (folio)

Title from incipit, l. II, leaf II.
Imprint from colophon.
Manicules; side notes.
Signatures: [1⁴ 2¹⁰ 3-14⁸ 15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17⁶] (last leaf blank).
Text printed in 2 columns, tables in 3; 50-52 lines; type 4:71G.
Spaces for initial letters left blank; guide letters supplied.
Woodcut portrait of Attavanti on preliminary leaf [1].
"Tabula optima sup[er] breuiario Decreto[rum]": prelim. l. [1] verso-[4] recto.
"Tabula breuiarij Decretalium": l. CXVII recto-CXVIII recto.
"Breuiariu[m] Decretaliu[m] perutile jucipit [i.e. jncipit]"--Leaf CXIX.

Copy 2 imperfect: first gathering and last leaf wanting.
Copy 1 has: pastedowns from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript; inscription on leaf with author portrait.
Copy 2 has: illuminated initial decorated with floral motifs on leaf II; initials supplied in red ink.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 604 (IB. 11042).
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-180
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 7161
Incunabula short title catalogue, ip00180000 (https://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00180000)
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, P-052 (http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/P-052)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, A-811 (https://inkunabeln.digitale-sammlungen.de/Ausgabe_A-811.html)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M30141 (https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M30141.htm)

Copy 1: Abel E. Bertrans (bookplate on upper pastedown); Cunradus Debendorff professor of theology (note on preliminary leaf [1]); acquired by the Court Library at Donaueschingen in the secularizations of the late 18th-early 19th centuries, as incunable no. 206 (indicated by spine label with number), sold at Sotheby's on July 1, 1994, by order of Prince Joachim zu F|rstenberg (dealer's information).
Copy 2: Eduardo J. Bullrich (ex libris on upper pastedown); M. Ioannes [?], canon of Brescia (inscriptions on upper pastedown and leaf [I]v).

Copy 1: Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, bevel-cut, with manuscript endpapers; one clasp (partly wanting) attached back to front; sewn on three double twine bands; handwritten label on spine. In box, quarter red morocco, gold-stamped on back.
Copy 2: Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin; clasps removed; clasp holes inside covers pasted over with pieces of note-paper with mansucript notes in 17th or 18th-cent. hands; sewn on four double twine bands; speckled page edges.

Restrictions: Inquiries concerning this item should be directed to the reference librarian for the Robbins Collection.

Germany -- Memmingen.

KBR1925.A77 A32 1486 Incun.

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