AN ARTFUL ‘FRANKENBOOK’
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£3,750.00
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A sammelband containing:
- Flores legum sive congeries auctoritatum Juris civilis ... [Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, 1507]. VD16 F 1664.
- A ‘hybrid’ version of Bartolus de Saxoferrata’s Tractatus Iudiciorum and Tractatus Renuntiatiorum using components excerpted from two anthology-style editions (Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, c. 1503 and c.1505), and possibly combined this way by the printer or bookseller. Sigs. A1-8 from VD16 M 5749 (component VD16 B 599), cf. ISTC ib00245500. Sigs. B1-6 from VD16 B 597 (component VD16 B 607), cf. ISTC ib00245700. Quire B would have originally had 8 leaves, with the next text (Processus Sathane) starting on B7v, which the compiler has excluded (cf. title page crossing out).
- Ars notariatus [Cologne, Johann Landen, c.1506]. VD16 A 3817.
- Andreae, Johannes: Summa Johannis Andree compendiosa et utilis ordinata super secundo decretalium… [Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, c. 1503]. VD16 J 350.
- Andreae, Johannes: Summa Johannis Andree super quarto decretalium … [Cologne, Cornelius von Zierickzee, c. 1503]. VD16 J 338.
- [Albericus de Rosate, Corti, Franceschino]: Tractatus de testibus practicabilis ac necessarius valde tabellionibus causidicis judicibus … Paris, Jean Petit [1510]. USTC 186718, FB 5216.
- Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroque jure... [Cologne, Martin von Werden, 1505]. Only the first text (remaining texts accordingly crossed out on title page). VD16 M 5751; ISTC im00751830. We have not located any copies containing more content than ours. Perhaps no complete copies are extant, and the title page is misleading.
An interesting post-incunable legal sammelband showing the improvisation found in early book production, especially in the selective use of components from anthology-style works.
Details
Seven items in one volume, 13.6 x 9.8 cms in binding, octavo, ff. [52] [14] [8] [8] [12] [96] 24 (ff. 214 overall; modern pencil foliation). Selected titles crossed out on the title pages of items 2 and 7. Five woodcut illustrations (two in item 1 and one in each of item 3, 4, and 5). Decorative floral woodcuts to title page of item 1. Printer’s device to title page of item 6, and metal cut initials in the text.
Bound in blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over boards. Front cover stamped with initials DCS, both covers decorated with rolls depicting the Evangelists and various acorn stamps. Green textile ties. Buxheim shelfmark label to spine.
Condition (textblock): early reinforcing strips to rectos of first two leaves (some of decorative woodcut to first title page supplied probably at an early date to judge from ink and nib used; recto to second leaf has loss to ends of 16 lines of text, less loss to verso). Otherwise, browning and some staining, title page of item 7 loosening, a few small tears to blank outer margins, one quire with strengthening to blank gutters probably from time of binding. Condition (binding): wear at edges, headcap lacking, some staining and soiling, ties fraying (one repaired with pink thread).
Provenance: Formerly in Buxheim Charterhouse.