Bod-Inc: M-295
Modus Legendi Abbreviaturas, et al.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[S]i te in expeditum agilem doctumque practice iuridice executorem iuuat . . .’ Explicit: vehementer profecisse
[a1v] [Verse naming the printer, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Viue vale, lector, feliciter arripe pulcrum | Quod tibi Spirensis Drach Petrus edit opus'; 1 elegiac distich.
[a2r] Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroque iure. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia preposterus est ordo prius humana petere . . .’ The component parts are in the following order: Feenstra 222-3, (1-4,10-16); Sawicki 110-11, a,b,c(?),h,i,j,k,l,m,n.
[d6r] ‘Registrum ordinis seu processus iudicarii prescripti'.
[e1r] Aurbach, Johannes: Processus iudicarius. See A‑496, but with different ending ‘ . . . vt est mortis', rather than ‘ . . . aliis dicta sufficiant'.
[l11v] Tractatus praesumptionum. Incipit: ‘[P]resumitur contractatus simulatus sine aliqua probatione his casibus . . .’ Explicit: de pac. dota
[m1r] Dominicus de Visentina: ‘Prohemium'. Incipit: ‘[O]mne datum optimum et omne donum perfectum . . .’ Explicit: volumine compilabo
[m1r] ‘Capitula archiepiscoporum et episcoporum'.
[m2v] Dominicus de Visentina: Summa qualiter notarii archiepiscoporum et episcoporum debeant officium exercere. Incipit: ‘[N]icolaus miseratione diuina vniuersalis Bononiensis episcopus dilecto suo A. de M. salutem et benedictionem. Querelam accepimus ad instantiam . . .’ Explicit: prosequentes mandamus q etc.
[o2r] Tractatus notariatus. Incipit: ‘[T]ractaturi de arte notarie siue notariatus. Primo videndum est quid sit ars notarie . . .’ Explicit: presentibus ibidem, etc.
[t7r] [Ordo iudicarius: Processus iudicii Antequam.] Incipit: ‘[A]ntequam dicam de processu iudicii notandum est quid sit iudicium . . .’ Explicit: vel corriget, etc.
[v4v] ‘Introductio procurationis'. Incipit: ‘[C]um citatio fundamentum sit ordinis iudiciarii . . .’ Explicit: in rem iudicatam, etc.
[v7r] [Gerardus, Monachus: Preface.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uia bone rei dare consilium et presentis . . .’ Explicit: ponit primo registrum
[v7v] ‘Tituli'.
[v7v] [Gerardus, Monachus]: Defensorium iuris. Incipit: ‘Quibus modis iudicum instantia perit videamus . . .’ Explicit: breuitatis sufficiant, etc.
[z1v] ‘Tituli'.
[z1v] Innocentius IV, Pont. Max.: Tractatus exceptionum. Incipit: ‘[E]xcipitur contra literas et sigilla multis modis videlicet . . .’ Explicit: periculo recitanda l.ii, etc.
[z6r] Dinus de Mugello: Tractatus praescriptionum. Incipit: ‘[N]otabiliter collige quod prescriptiones que sparsim sunt posite . . .’ Explicit: decet solertiam, etc.
[A3r] Petrus Jacobus de Montepessulano: De arbitris et arbitratoribus. Incipit: ‘[C]irca materiam arbitrorum notandum quod arbitrorum quidam . . .’ Explicit: iudicando arbitrio, etc.
[A5r] Galvanus [Salvianus] de Bononia: Differentiae legum et canonum. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum canones ante sententiam potest appellari . . .’ Explicit: in secula seculorum. Amen
[B1r] [Table of contents.]
[B1r] Bartolus [de Saxoferrato, pseudo-]: De tabellionibus. Incipit: ‘[T]ractaturi de tabellionibus quorum officium frequentatur . . .’ Explicit: impuberem. s.i.de.fal. On the work see A. Era, ‘Due trattati attribuiti a Bartolo: De tabellionibus e Contrarietates iuris civilis Romanorum et iuris Langobardorum’ in Bartolo da Sassoferrato. Studi e documenti per il VI centenario, ed. D. Segoloni, 2 vols (Milan, 1962), II 217-25.
Imprint
Imprint: [Speier: Peter Drach, c.1478.] Folio.
Remarks: As dated by Polain, Sack, and BSB‑Ink; Sheppard dates [c.1480], and records as a 4o.
Collation
Collation: [a12 b–k8 l12 m–z A8 B6].
References
ISTC: im00754000
Hain: H *11481 = H 11462;
Goff: Goff M‑754;
Proctor: Pr 2343;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑502; Polain 4574; Sack, Freiburg, 2480; Sheppard 1698.
LCN: 14514584
Copies
Copy number: M-295(1)
Sheet [B3.4] is in folio.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Leather index tabs bleached white or dyed red.
Size: 315 × 225 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 201 mm.
A manuscript list of contents on [a1r] in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century German hand. Marginal annotations, apparently in the same hand, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands. Irregular foliation in the same hand: i–167.
Partial rubrication: on [a2r] a six-line initial ‘Q' is supplied in red with reserved white decoration, and with an extension into the inner margin, and with the body of the letter decorated with black pen-work; on [e1r] a six-line initial ‘I' is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, and decorated with red pen-work; on [a1v] a three-line initial ‘S' is supplied in red, with extension into the inner margin; paragraph marks are supplied in red or in black ink; some running headings are supplied in black ink, in the same hand that wrote the notes (see above); capital strokes and underlining in red on [a1v –a2r] only.
Provenance: Johannes Deithart (fl. 1477); inscription on [B6v]: ‘Liber Johannis Deithart de Hammone'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2447; purchased for £0. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 4.1.
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