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PAULUS ATTAVANTI FLORENTINUS (ca 1445-1499). Breviarum totius juris canonici, sive Decretorum breviarium. Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne, 1486.
Chancery 2o (275 x 197 mm). 134 leaves. 2/2-17/5 with printed foliation II-CXXIX. 50 lines and headline, double column (3 columns in tables). Printed marginalia in inner and outer margins. Gothic types 2:115 (incipits of treatises, headlines on 16/3-17/5), 4:71 (text and marginalia), small heavy Lombards used for headings and foliation. Four- to ten-line initial spaces, with printed guide-letters. Rubricated with red Lombard initials; woodcut with red highlights. (First leaf darkened with repair to blank corner, dampstains, some worming especially to beginning and end.) Contemporary blind-tooled half leather over wooden boards (rebacked and repaired, large circular bookplate removed from pastedown); two clasps; contemporary title lettered on front cover and on head- and tail-edges of bookblock; vellum sewing guards cut from a small-format manuscript breviary. Provenance: S. Rishimer, who was perhaps the rubricator: name signed boldly in red ink on 1/1r -- Gustavo Camillo Galletti: inkstamp on 1/2r -- Baron Horace de Landau: bookplate. -- Ned Nakles (sold Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 73).
Third edition and the first of two editions published by Kunne. The text was copied, with some differences of layout, from that of the first edition by Leonardus Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeler (Milan, 28 August 1479 [Goff P-178]). The woodcut is a close copy of the one which appeared in the first edition and also in Paulus' Quadragesimale (Milan: Pachel and Scinzenzeler, 10 September 1479 [Goff P-182]). This was the first author portrait to appear in a printed book, and its use in the present edition was the first appearance of a Renaissance woodcut in a German book. The initials under the figure identify the subject as "Magister Paulus Florentinus ordinis Sancti Spiritus". A member of the humanistic circle associated with Lorenzo de' Medici and Marsilio Ficino, Paulus was praised by Ficino for his culture and eloquence, which Ficino likened to the lyre of Orpheus. H 7161*; BMC II, 604 (IB. 11043); BSB-Ink. A-811; CIBN P-58; Harvard/Walsh 979-980; Pr 2780; Schreiber 4901; Goff P-180.
Chancery 2
Third edition and the first of two editions published by Kunne. The text was copied, with some differences of layout, from that of the first edition by Leonardus Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeler (Milan, 28 August 1479 [Goff P-178]). The woodcut is a close copy of the one which appeared in the first edition and also in Paulus' Quadragesimale (Milan: Pachel and Scinzenzeler, 10 September 1479 [Goff P-182]). This was the first author portrait to appear in a printed book, and its use in the present edition was the first appearance of a Renaissance woodcut in a German book. The initials under the figure identify the subject as "Magister Paulus Florentinus ordinis Sancti Spiritus". A member of the humanistic circle associated with Lorenzo de' Medici and Marsilio Ficino, Paulus was praised by Ficino for his culture and eloquence, which Ficino likened to the lyre of Orpheus. H 7161*; BMC II, 604 (IB. 11043); BSB-Ink. A-811; CIBN P-58; Harvard/Walsh 979-980; Pr 2780; Schreiber 4901; Goff P-180.