Incipit liber p[ri]mus d[omi]ni Iustiniani imp[er]atoris institutionu[m] seu elementorum.
1478
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Title
Incipit liber p[ri]mus d[omi]ni Iustiniani imp[er]atoris institutionu[m] seu elementorum.
Uniform title
Institutiones.
Institutiones.
Institutiones.
Created/published
I[n] celebratissima vrbe Basiliensi ... : Impressum est per Michahelem Wenssler ..., anno nostre Salutis [1478] pridie Kalendas Augusti [31 July]
Description
[212] p. ; 41 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Knoblauch, Adolf, active 1506, former owner.
Colt, Harris Dunscombe, 1901-1973, former owner.
Colt, Armida Maria-Theresa, former owner.
Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.
Peter Schoeffer bindery, binder.
Herzogliche Öffentliche Bibliothek (Meiningen, Germany), former owner.
Colt, Harris Dunscombe, 1901-1973, former owner.
Colt, Armida Maria-Theresa, former owner.
Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.
Peter Schoeffer bindery, binder.
Herzogliche Öffentliche Bibliothek (Meiningen, Germany), former owner.
Note
Title extracted from incipit (leaf [a]2r).
Imprint from prose colophon at end of text (leaf n6v) which gives year of publication in Latin words.
Signatures: [a]¹⁰, [b]⁸, [c-f]⁸/¹⁰, [g-l]⁸, [m-n]⁶.
Printed in 2 columns.
Text surrounded by commentary.
Capital spaces.
Printed in red and black.
Imprint from prose colophon at end of text (leaf n6v) which gives year of publication in Latin words.
Signatures: [a]¹⁰, [b]⁸, [c-f]⁸/¹⁰, [g-l]⁸, [m-n]⁶.
Printed in 2 columns.
Text surrounded by commentary.
Capital spaces.
Printed in red and black.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 1:1)
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J-518
BM 15th cent., III, p. 725 (IC.37087)
GW 7597
BM 15th cent., III, p. 725 (IC.37087)
GW 7597
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Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library INC J467: "Hooked on Book Furniture", The Collation (14 April 2020)
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library INC J467: "Hooked on Book Furniture", The Collation (14 April 2020)
Place of creation/publication
Switzerland -- Basel.
Item Details
Call number
INC J467
Folger-specific note
Large initial in colors with leafy motif in margins on leaf [a]2r; other main initials in red and blue with red, blue, or purple penwork infill and flourishes; smaller initials and paragraph marks in alternate red and blue throughout; headlines, numbering of leaves (leaves 2-106 numbered 1-105) and a few chapter headings, added in red paint. Title of chapters handwritten in brown at head of each leaf, presumably as part of the manufacture of the book; extensive manuscript readers notes in brown ink in several hands (one of them being Adolf Knoblauch's) with numerous manicules, brackets, underlining and corrections in both text and commentary; manuscript index in A. Knoblauch's hand on front flyleaf, referring to leaf numbers; his sketches of coat of arms (one of them with garlic cloves as charges) and other notes on flyleaves and pastedowns; "Arbor consanguinitatis" reproduced by hand on back flyleaf. Contemporary brown calf binding over wooden boards with blind tooled rolls and stamps (Cf. Kyriss III, no. 160 "Mainz region"; Schwenke-Schunke Schrift 210, Affe 1, etc.; Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1:1), with 2 clasps, from a secular bindery connected to the printshop of Peter Schoeffer in Mainz, according to Lotte Hellinga's article: Peter Schoeffer and the booktrade in Mainz: Evidence for the organization, in Bookbindings and other bibliophily; rebacked and repaired with sheepskin (19th cent.?); printed waste used as pastedowns, identified as recto of leaf [35] (back pastedown) and recto of leaf [36] (front pastedown) of Gregory IX's Decretales printed in Strasbourg by H. Eggestein in 1470-1472. Autograph "Adolfus Knobelauch Franckforter" on front flyleaf; bookstamp of the Herzogliche Öffentliche Bibliothek of Meiningen; bookplate of Mr. and Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt. Gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt--1982.