Bod-Inc: L-194
Ludovicus XII
Decretum de prorogationibus et suspensionibus.
Analysis of Content
Printed side Ludovicus XII, Rex Francorum: Decretum de prorogationibus et suspensionibus. Incipit: ‘Ludouicus dei gratia Francorum Sicilie et Hyerusalem Rex, ac Mediolani dux etcetera . . . Cum nihil tam cupiamus quam ut lites et discordiae inter subditos nostros . . .’ The decree is dated 17 Sept. 1500 and its proclamation 19 Sept. 1500. Léon G. Pélissier, Documents pour l'histoire de la domination française dans le Milanais (1499-1513) (Toulouse, 1891), 55-8 no. 17. For two similar texts (`grida' IGI 5883 and 5884) by the same printer with the same type see Caterina Santoro, ‘Due nuovi incunaboli milanesi', in Studi e ricerche sulla storia della stampa del quattrocento, ed. Ministero della educazione Nazionale and Associazione Italiana per le Biblioteche (Milan, 1942), 217-26.
Imprint
Imprint: [Milan: Ambrosius de Caponago, after 17 Sept. 1500]. Broadside.
Collation
Types: Type: 83 R.
Line number: 48 lines.
Type area: Type area: 202 ×153 mm.
Remarks: Printed side, l. 1: ‘Ludouicus dei gr̄a Frācoꝝ Sicilie & hyeruſalē Rex: ac Mediolāi dux &c. Cūctis pn̄tes īſpecturis ſalutē: cū | nihil tā . . .'; l. 44: ‘Datū Mediolani die decimoſeptimo Septembr̄ Mileſimoquingenteſimo . . .' l. 45: ‘ſigillata ſigillo Regio in | cera rubea ut moris est. | Publicatam ad ſcalas palatii Mediolani per Nicoaum de caſtello p̄conem cō munis Mediolani die ſabbati | xyiiii.Septembris. Mcccc.ſono tube p̄miſſo.’
References
ISTC: il00367150
LCN: 14504284
Copies
Copy number: L-194(1)
Binding: Stored in a modern brown cloth document wallet, together with a letter by C. A. Chiesa to Ehrman, dated 29 Oct. 1956.
Size of leaf: 285 × 227 mm.
‘Decretum super prorogationibus' in the upper margin in brown ink in a contempory hand.
Provenance: Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); purchased in 1956 from Carlo Alberto Chiesa, Milan, for £160; accession no. ‘R 1484'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 95.36.
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