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SALICETO, Bartolomaeus de (d. 1412). Super octavo libro Codicis. Modena: Johannes Wurster, 10 January 1476.
2° (433 x 280mm). [1-98 106 11-178 186 198]. 146 leaves (of 148, without the first and last blanks). 50 lines, double column. Type: 2:111R. 4- to 6-line initial spaces, with guide-letters. Manuscript headlines. (Early leaves slightly gnawed at lower margin, some soiling and waterstaining, occasional browning, final leaf of text with small blank section torn away.) Contemporary bevelled wood boards with calf spine, pastedowns of vellum fragments from a 15th-century Spanish carta executoria, one remaining metal plate for double clasps, UNCUT (rebacked in calf gilt in the 18th century, the rebacked spine subsequently restored, and with some areas of cracking). Provenance: marginal annotations in a contemporary hand -- unidentified gilt crest on spine.
FIRST AND ONLY INCUNABLE EDITION. ISTC LOCATES ONLY TWO COPIES at Modena and Lucca. Johannes Vurster's itinerant career put him at the forefront of printing at Modena, where he attempted to publish a series of commentaries by Saliceto on the Justinian Codex. The present commentary was preceded by the Super nono libro Codicis on 9 October 1745, both publications being in joint partnership with Cechinus. Vurster struggled on to the completion of yet another part of Saliceto on 18 November 1476, but the last mention of his name in Italy occurs only two weeks later with an order to pay debts of over 700 lira to his partner. H 14138; Reichling VI, 141; IGI 8505; BMC VII, p. lxvii; Favia p. 25.
2° (433 x 280mm). [1-98 106 11-178 186 198]. 146 leaves (of 148, without the first and last blanks). 50 lines, double column. Type: 2:111R. 4- to 6-line initial spaces, with guide-letters. Manuscript headlines. (Early leaves slightly gnawed at lower margin, some soiling and waterstaining, occasional browning, final leaf of text with small blank section torn away.) Contemporary bevelled wood boards with calf spine, pastedowns of vellum fragments from a 15th-century Spanish carta executoria, one remaining metal plate for double clasps, UNCUT (rebacked in calf gilt in the 18th century, the rebacked spine subsequently restored, and with some areas of cracking). Provenance: marginal annotations in a contemporary hand -- unidentified gilt crest on spine.
FIRST AND ONLY INCUNABLE EDITION. ISTC LOCATES ONLY TWO COPIES at Modena and Lucca. Johannes Vurster's itinerant career put him at the forefront of printing at Modena, where he attempted to publish a series of commentaries by Saliceto on the Justinian Codex. The present commentary was preceded by the Super nono libro Codicis on 9 October 1745, both publications being in joint partnership with Cechinus. Vurster struggled on to the completion of yet another part of Saliceto on 18 November 1476, but the last mention of his name in Italy occurs only two weeks later with an order to pay debts of over 700 lira to his partner. H 14138; Reichling VI, 141; IGI 8505; BMC VII, p. lxvii; Favia p. 25.
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