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BERNARDUS PARMENSIS (d.1266). Casus longi super quinque libros decretalium. [Basel: Michael Wenssler, not after 1479].
Chancery 2° (286 x 208mm). Collation: [1-48 510 6-78 810 96; 10-1310 14-178 18-2010 21-248 256 26-298 3012 31-338 3410 35-366 (1/1r text, Book I, 10/1r Book II, 17/8v blank, 18/1r Book III, 26/1r Book IV, 29/1r Book V, 36/6 blank). 304 leaves. 46 lines and headline, double column. Type: 1.:121G, 2:92G. 2- to 7-line initial spaces. (Few minor wormholes in first quires, 1/1.8 rehinged, few marginal tears neatly repaired, some light browning, light stain at upper corner from quire 17.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, sides with central panel diapered with triple fillets and with griffin, rosette, Agnus Dei and leafy-vine stamps (not apparently in Kyriss or Schunke), pastedowns from a 13th-century Psalter on vellum, one with music, two fore-edge clasps, title written along top edges (rebacked, slightly scuffed). Provenance: extensively annotated by a contemporary hand, MS alphabetical table to N written on front flyleaf -- Frankfurt, Stadtbibliothek (duplicate stamp).
SECOND EDITION. HC *2929; GW 4093; BMC III, 727 (IB. 37097); Goff B-455.
Chancery 2° (286 x 208mm). Collation: [1-48 510 6-78 810 96; 10-1310 14-178 18-2010 21-248 256 26-298 3012 31-338 3410 35-366 (1/1r text, Book I, 10/1r Book II, 17/8v blank, 18/1r Book III, 26/1r Book IV, 29/1r Book V, 36/6 blank). 304 leaves. 46 lines and headline, double column. Type: 1.:121G, 2:92G. 2- to 7-line initial spaces. (Few minor wormholes in first quires, 1/1.8 rehinged, few marginal tears neatly repaired, some light browning, light stain at upper corner from quire 17.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, sides with central panel diapered with triple fillets and with griffin, rosette, Agnus Dei and leafy-vine stamps (not apparently in Kyriss or Schunke), pastedowns from a 13th-century Psalter on vellum, one with music, two fore-edge clasps, title written along top edges (rebacked, slightly scuffed). Provenance: extensively annotated by a contemporary hand, MS alphabetical table to N written on front flyleaf -- Frankfurt, Stadtbibliothek (duplicate stamp).
SECOND EDITION. HC *2929; GW 4093; BMC III, 727 (IB. 37097); Goff B-455.
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