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PAULUS FLORENTINUS (1419-1499). Breviarium totius juris canonici, sive Decretorum breviarium. Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne, 1486.
With the woodcut author portrait, ‘the earliest book illustration' aside from woodcut initials when it first appeared in the 1479 edition (Hind II, p.513). HC *7161; GW M-30141; BMC II 604; Bod-inc P-052; BSB-Ink A-811; Goff P-180.
Chancery folio (270 x 197mm). Without last blank, woodcut portrait of the author on *1r in contemporary colour, red and blue initials (some spotting and staining, minor worming on first and last few leaves, repaired on first 2 leaves, marginal paper flaw on fo.XXVII). Contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards, early flyleaf preserved, early manuscript title on upper edges (early rebacking, without clasps). Provenance: early marginalia – Brixen, Johannes Pachler (inscription recording his gift to St Agnes church on 15 November 1535) – [Brixen] Augustinian Canons Regular (later inscription) – Jacobus Cendrus (early inscription with motto 'Sera in fundo parsimonia') – Austria, Carinthia, Georg ?Lorber (early inscription).
With the woodcut author portrait, ‘the earliest book illustration' aside from woodcut initials when it first appeared in the 1479 edition (Hind II, p.513). HC *7161; GW M-30141; BMC II 604; Bod-inc P-052; BSB-Ink A-811; Goff P-180.
Chancery folio (270 x 197mm). Without last blank, woodcut portrait of the author on *1r in contemporary colour, red and blue initials (some spotting and staining, minor worming on first and last few leaves, repaired on first 2 leaves, marginal paper flaw on fo.XXVII). Contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards, early flyleaf preserved, early manuscript title on upper edges (early rebacking, without clasps). Provenance: early marginalia – Brixen, Johannes Pachler (inscription recording his gift to St Agnes church on 15 November 1535) – [Brixen] Augustinian Canons Regular (later inscription) – Jacobus Cendrus (early inscription with motto 'Sera in fundo parsimonia') – Austria, Carinthia, Georg ?Lorber (early inscription).
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