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JUSTINIAN I (emperor, r. 527-565). Institutiones. With the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius (1182-1260). Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 29th October 1472.
R2o (405 x 275mm). Collation: [1-58 610(10+1), 7-118 12-136]. 103 leaves. Gothic types 5:118 (text) and 3:91 (gloss), printed in red and black, double columns of text surrounded by gloss (67 lines to the full page). 8 pinholes per sheet (preserved). Contemporary 9-line initial I on 1/1r illuminated by a contemporary German hand, rubricated with initials and paragraph marks in blue or red, capital strokes in red. (Bifolium 2/4.5 supplied from another copy, presumably by James Edwards for Wodhull, a few very minor stains.)
English binding of straight-grained red morocco gilt, single fillet around the sides, flat spine in compartments tooled à la grotesque, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, (extremities slightly rubbed). Provenance: Michael Wodhull (purchase inscription, dated 13th July 1801, price 5 gns. from Edwards) - Boies Penrose (bookplates) - Acquired from John F. Fleming 1976.
Third edition, reprinted line-for-line from Schoeffer's first of 1468 (GW 7580). Eggestein's second edition from Strassburg (GW 7581) preceded it by just over a month. It takes its place among the great series of civil and canon lawbooks started by Fust and Schoeffer in 1460 with Clemens V's Constitutiones (GW 7077) and ending with Schoeffer's edition of Justinian's Novellae constitutions, Consuetudines feudorum in 1477 (GW 7751). Both types employed in this edition first appeared in the 1459 Durandus (GW 9101) and the larger type subsequently in the 1462 Bible. Wodhull, Dibdin's 'Orlando', was an important classical scholar and one of England's most sophisticated bibliophiles, who would choose the finest sheets from other copies to perfect his own, rather like Count MacCarthy-Reagh in France. In fact, Maria Weir, restorer and wife of the binder, worked for both of them. FINE CONDITION. Only two copies currently in American libraries. HC *9490; BMC I, 29; GW 7582; Goff J-508.
R2o (405 x 275mm). Collation: [1-58 610(10+1), 7-118 12-136]. 103 leaves. Gothic types 5:118 (text) and 3:91 (gloss), printed in red and black, double columns of text surrounded by gloss (67 lines to the full page). 8 pinholes per sheet (preserved). Contemporary 9-line initial I on 1/1r illuminated by a contemporary German hand, rubricated with initials and paragraph marks in blue or red, capital strokes in red. (Bifolium 2/4.5 supplied from another copy, presumably by James Edwards for Wodhull, a few very minor stains.)
English binding of straight-grained red morocco gilt, single fillet around the sides, flat spine in compartments tooled à la grotesque, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, (extremities slightly rubbed). Provenance: Michael Wodhull (purchase inscription, dated 13th July 1801, price 5 gns. from Edwards) - Boies Penrose (bookplates) - Acquired from John F. Fleming 1976.
Third edition, reprinted line-for-line from Schoeffer's first of 1468 (GW 7580). Eggestein's second edition from Strassburg (GW 7581) preceded it by just over a month. It takes its place among the great series of civil and canon lawbooks started by Fust and Schoeffer in 1460 with Clemens V's Constitutiones (GW 7077) and ending with Schoeffer's edition of Justinian's Novellae constitutions, Consuetudines feudorum in 1477 (GW 7751). Both types employed in this edition first appeared in the 1459 Durandus (GW 9101) and the larger type subsequently in the 1462 Bible. Wodhull, Dibdin's 'Orlando', was an important classical scholar and one of England's most sophisticated bibliophiles, who would choose the finest sheets from other copies to perfect his own, rather like Count MacCarthy-Reagh in France. In fact, Maria Weir, restorer and wife of the binder, worked for both of them. FINE CONDITION. Only two copies currently in American libraries. HC *9490; BMC I, 29; GW 7582; Goff J-508.