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CINUS DE PISTORIO (1270-1336). Lectura super Codicem. Strasbourg: [Heinrich Eggestein, c. 1475].
First edition of a highly influential commentary on civil law written by a friend of Dante. This copy retains – remarkably – its contemporary wallet-style wrapper binding of blindstamped pigskin. Rare: no copy of the first edition is recorded on the market in Rare Book Hub or ABPC. Goff C-697.
Two parts in one volume, royal folio (395 x 290mm). With the apparently only known copy of the single-sheet register, GW citing a single, imperfect copy at Stuttgart. Without first blank of part 1 and final blank of part II, quire 18 misbound after quire 13, major initials in interlocking blue and red, smaller initials alternating red and blue, rubricated (register leaf loosely inserted and with a few small repairs). Contemporary Regensburg [Kyriss 153, EDBD w000020] wallet binding of unlined pigskin tooled in blind with knotwork, rosettes, double-headed eagle and other tools, 3 chancery leaves at beginning with beginning of a ms. index (detached, missing fore-edge ties, spine head worn). Provenance: Steingaden, Premonstratensian abbey (inscription, marginal annotations).
Cino da Pistoia was a jurist and poet. His commentary on the Codex superseded all previous studies and continued in use over the following two centuries. As a poet, he was among the first to write in the new Italian style. He was a friend of Dante but his reputed friendship with Petrarch and Boccaccio is spurious.
The survival of such a large book (a royal folio), complete (the two parts totalling 558 leaves), and in a wallet-style wrapper binding is remarkable, and its excellent condition is proof of a stable existence, the first 3 centuries in the monastic library at Steingaden and the last half-century in the current private collection. The present copy contains, now loosely inserted, the single-sheet register of quires, known to GW in a unique, imperfect copy at Stuttgart. Although reasonably well represented in institutional collections (where many copies are imperfect), the edition is very rare on the market. H *13022; BMC I 72; GW 7045; BSB-Ink C-417; Goff C-697.
First edition of a highly influential commentary on civil law written by a friend of Dante. This copy retains – remarkably – its contemporary wallet-style wrapper binding of blindstamped pigskin. Rare: no copy of the first edition is recorded on the market in Rare Book Hub or ABPC. Goff C-697.
Two parts in one volume, royal folio (395 x 290mm). With the apparently only known copy of the single-sheet register, GW citing a single, imperfect copy at Stuttgart. Without first blank of part 1 and final blank of part II, quire 18 misbound after quire 13, major initials in interlocking blue and red, smaller initials alternating red and blue, rubricated (register leaf loosely inserted and with a few small repairs). Contemporary Regensburg [Kyriss 153, EDBD w000020] wallet binding of unlined pigskin tooled in blind with knotwork, rosettes, double-headed eagle and other tools, 3 chancery leaves at beginning with beginning of a ms. index (detached, missing fore-edge ties, spine head worn). Provenance: Steingaden, Premonstratensian abbey (inscription, marginal annotations).
Cino da Pistoia was a jurist and poet. His commentary on the Codex superseded all previous studies and continued in use over the following two centuries. As a poet, he was among the first to write in the new Italian style. He was a friend of Dante but his reputed friendship with Petrarch and Boccaccio is spurious.
The survival of such a large book (a royal folio), complete (the two parts totalling 558 leaves), and in a wallet-style wrapper binding is remarkable, and its excellent condition is proof of a stable existence, the first 3 centuries in the monastic library at Steingaden and the last half-century in the current private collection. The present copy contains, now loosely inserted, the single-sheet register of quires, known to GW in a unique, imperfect copy at Stuttgart. Although reasonably well represented in institutional collections (where many copies are imperfect), the edition is very rare on the market. H *13022; BMC I 72; GW 7045; BSB-Ink C-417; Goff C-697.
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