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NICOLAUS DE AUSMO (d.1453). Supplementum Summae Pisanellae. - ASTESANUS DE AST (fl. 1st half of 14th century). Canones poenitentiales. Venice: Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1474.
Chancery 2° (258 x 176mm). Collation: [1-1010 11-128 13-1610 178 18-3010 318 3212 3310 3412] (1/1 blank, 1/2r Supplementum, 33/6r table, 34/9v Canones poenitentiales, 34/12r colophon, 34/12v blank). 336 leaves, sheets 7/4.7 and 5.6 reversed from an early date with contemporary annotation directing the reader to the proper page sequence. 47 lines, double column. Type: 2:75G. CONTEMPORARY DECORATION IN A FERRARESE STYLE: 14-line illuminated foliate initial in pink, blue and green on a burnished gold ground infilled with blue with white decoration and a curling spray of vari-coloured acanthus, terminals of same type extending the length of the inner margin with gold disks ringed by scrolling penwork and incorporating 4-line initial below, 3-line initials alternating in red or blue with red or purple penwork decoration, paragraph marks alternating in red or blue, MS guide-letters. (A few margins very lightly dampstained, small wormhole from quire 26 to end, very occasional light spotting.) Modern light brown morocco tooled to a gothic design, metal corner and centerpiece and fore-edge clasps. Provenance: some neat contemporary annotations, 'Carte no. 346' on final blank page -- [John Ehrman, Broxbourne Library (bookplate, not in sale at Sotheby's, May 1978)] -- H. Legel (bookplate, pencilled notes).
First of two editions printed at this press in the same year. As the title indicates, the work is Nicolaus's supplement to Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio's Summa. As a digest of canon law conveniently arranged alphabetically for easy reference, it was popular in the second half of the 15th century. HR 2153a; BMC V, 192 (IB. 19843); CIBN N-33; IGI 6871; Goff N-61.
Chancery 2° (258 x 176mm). Collation: [1-1010 11-128 13-1610 178 18-3010 318 3212 3310 3412] (1/1 blank, 1/2r Supplementum, 33/6r table, 34/9v Canones poenitentiales, 34/12r colophon, 34/12v blank). 336 leaves, sheets 7/4.7 and 5.6 reversed from an early date with contemporary annotation directing the reader to the proper page sequence. 47 lines, double column. Type: 2:75G. CONTEMPORARY DECORATION IN A FERRARESE STYLE: 14-line illuminated foliate initial in pink, blue and green on a burnished gold ground infilled with blue with white decoration and a curling spray of vari-coloured acanthus, terminals of same type extending the length of the inner margin with gold disks ringed by scrolling penwork and incorporating 4-line initial below, 3-line initials alternating in red or blue with red or purple penwork decoration, paragraph marks alternating in red or blue, MS guide-letters. (A few margins very lightly dampstained, small wormhole from quire 26 to end, very occasional light spotting.) Modern light brown morocco tooled to a gothic design, metal corner and centerpiece and fore-edge clasps. Provenance: some neat contemporary annotations, 'Carte no. 346' on final blank page -- [John Ehrman, Broxbourne Library (bookplate, not in sale at Sotheby's, May 1978)] -- H. Legel (bookplate, pencilled notes).
First of two editions printed at this press in the same year. As the title indicates, the work is Nicolaus's supplement to Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio's Summa. As a digest of canon law conveniently arranged alphabetically for easy reference, it was popular in the second half of the 15th century. HR 2153a; BMC V, 192 (IB. 19843); CIBN N-33; IGI 6871; Goff N-61.
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