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ALVAROTUS, Jacobus (1385-1453). Super feudis, with additions by Matthaeus de Corbinellis and Montorius Mascarellus. Venice: eponymous press, 10 July 1477.
First edition, the only book assigned to this press at Venice, in a contemporary binding tooled with an ownership stamp of Philipp Baumann, and with a purchase inscription dated 1478. Rare: no copy of any 15th-century edition is recorded as having been on the market in over 60 years. Goff A-545.
Royal folio (430 x 290mm). Red initials in the index leaves, other initial spaces left blank but the first several filled by a just later hand, including 3 with faces, contemporary foliation and subject headline (small wormholes in first 5 and final 3 quires touching some letters). Bound for Philipp Baumann (stamp EBDB w002384 and others): contemporary south-German pigskin over wooden boards, evidence of fore-edge clasps, later title lettered on spine (only very lightly worn). Provenance: Philipp Baumann (binding stamp) -- purchase inscription recording its price of 5 rhenish gulden and dated Nuremberg, 1478 – early annotations, pastedown inscription erased, others dated 1494, 1509 -- Jodocus Oethaeus of Nordhausen, 1568 (inscription) – Matthaeus Gerstenbrand, 1692 (inscription).
While the distinctive armorial stamp naming Philipp Baumann could perhaps identify the binder, Kyriss (GBJB 1957) considered it an owner’s stamp, a view with which we concur. Other volumes bearing Baumann’s stamp are also law books, giving a clue to Baumann’s profession. Very few 15th-century ownership stamps are known. Super feudis is, as its name indicates, an important commentary on feuds by the celebrated lawyer and judge, Jacobus Alvarotus, noted for his learning in both civil and canon law. GW had assigned one other edition to the Printer of the 1477 Alvarotus, but CIBN has subsequently assigned it to Beretin Convento. H *886; GW 1589; IGI 414; BMC V 259; BSB-Ink A-457; Goff A-545.
First edition, the only book assigned to this press at Venice, in a contemporary binding tooled with an ownership stamp of Philipp Baumann, and with a purchase inscription dated 1478. Rare: no copy of any 15th-century edition is recorded as having been on the market in over 60 years. Goff A-545.
Royal folio (430 x 290mm). Red initials in the index leaves, other initial spaces left blank but the first several filled by a just later hand, including 3 with faces, contemporary foliation and subject headline (small wormholes in first 5 and final 3 quires touching some letters). Bound for Philipp Baumann (stamp EBDB w002384 and others): contemporary south-German pigskin over wooden boards, evidence of fore-edge clasps, later title lettered on spine (only very lightly worn). Provenance: Philipp Baumann (binding stamp) -- purchase inscription recording its price of 5 rhenish gulden and dated Nuremberg, 1478 – early annotations, pastedown inscription erased, others dated 1494, 1509 -- Jodocus Oethaeus of Nordhausen, 1568 (inscription) – Matthaeus Gerstenbrand, 1692 (inscription).
While the distinctive armorial stamp naming Philipp Baumann could perhaps identify the binder, Kyriss (GBJB 1957) considered it an owner’s stamp, a view with which we concur. Other volumes bearing Baumann’s stamp are also law books, giving a clue to Baumann’s profession. Very few 15th-century ownership stamps are known. Super feudis is, as its name indicates, an important commentary on feuds by the celebrated lawyer and judge, Jacobus Alvarotus, noted for his learning in both civil and canon law. GW had assigned one other edition to the Printer of the 1477 Alvarotus, but CIBN has subsequently assigned it to Beretin Convento. H *886; GW 1589; IGI 414; BMC V 259; BSB-Ink A-457; Goff A-545.
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