Repertorium iuris utriusque, parts I and II: PB 20-2020

Titles

Repertorium iuris utriusque, parts I and II

Maker(s)

Author: Bertachini, Giovanni
Printer: Lauer, Georg
Illuminator: circle of Jacopo Ravaldi

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• Book

Description

Rome: Georg Lauer, 5 April 1481
Illumination attributed to the circle of Jacopo Ravaldi, Rome, 1481-1482

Ills:
vol. I: fol. 1r, fol. 1v (inserted parchment leaf), fols.[a1]v, [a2]r, [a2]v
vol. II: fol.[a2]r

volume I
387 fols. (out of 388 fols., wanting the last leaf [z10]), 420 x 275 mm + one inserted parchment leaf at the front (fol. 1r), 422 x 276 mm, ruled in plummet and hardpoint, occasional leaf signatures, irregular early foliation throughout in brown ink, modern pencil foliation
volume II
353 fols. (out of 354 fols., wanting the last leaf [s6]), 422 x 277 mm, traces of early foliation in brown ink, occasional leaf signatures, regular modern pencil foliation

BINDING: nineteenth century, half black morocco, marbled paper over pasteboards, spine gilt

CONTENTS
volume I
fol. 1r (inserted parchment leaf) Giovanni Bertachini, dedicatory verse to Federico II da Montefeltro (Inc: ‘Hoc opus inscripsi diuo dux inclite Sixto’)
fol. [a1]r Giovanni Bertachini, dedicatory verse to Pope Sixtus IV
fol.[a2]r Giovanni Bertachini, Repertorium iuris utriusque, part I

volume II
fol.[a2]r Giovanni Bertachini, Repertorium iuris utriusque, part II

ORNAMENTATION

volume I
One blue initial [H, 5 ll.] on gold ground with acanthus extensions and full border of spraywork, flowers and gold discs with a laurel wreath housing the arms of Federico II da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, for the presentation verse to the Duke (inserted parchment leaf, fol. 1r); one graded pink initial [S, 10 ll.] on gold ground with acanthus extensions and full border of one-sided gold bar and three-sided frame of spraywork, flowers and gold discs, including in the lower margin the Bertachini arms, and in a panel of similar ornament above the text a laurel wreath housing the arms of Federico II da Montefeltro, for the Prohemium (fol.[a2]r); two graded magenta initials on gold grounds with acanthus extensions and one-sided gold bar with floral finials, spraywork and gold discs for the dedication to Sixtus IV ([S, 6 ll.], fol.[a1]v), and for the start of the text ([A, 11 ll.], fol.[a2]v); red or blue penwork initials [2-6 ll.]; red or blue paraph marks.

volume II
One graded pink initial [A, 12 ll.] on gold ground with acanthus extensions and an inter-column gold bar with borders of flowers, spraywork and gold discs in the upper and lower margins, with a laurel wreath housing the arms of Federico II da Montefeltro, for the incipit of part II (fol.[a2]r); red or blue penwork initials [2-10 ll.] with occasional voided ornament; red or blue paraph marks.

ISTC ib00497000; H 2981*; GW 4152; IGI 1608; BSB-Ink B-385

Notes

History note: Giovanni Bertachini (1448-1497), consistorial advocate to Pope Sixtus IV (Bertachini arms, volume I, fol.[a2]r: azure a fess argent between a seated ape bertuccino, holding a ring, and a star of eight points); presented to Federico II da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (r. 1474-1482) (volume I, fol. 1r, fol.[a2]r, volume II, fol.[a2]r: shield of arms surmounted by the ducal crown or, quartered with the Montefeltro bands or and azure and the Urbino eagle sable, at centre a vertical band gules with decussate keys and Papal tiara argent; in the late fifteenth-century Indice vecchio of this library: Stornajolo 1895, CII-CII, nos. 344 and 345); library of Count Francesco Maria Cardelli (1715-78), Rome (volume I, fols. 1r and [a2]r and volume II, fol.[a2]r: armorial ink stamp with legend Ex Bibliot. Com. Fr. M. Cardelli Rom.; note Parte 2a in brown ink in an eighteenth-century hand on flyleaf of volume 2 probably dates from this period); Cardelli library dispersed in 1898 (Catalogo della biblioteca del Conte Francesco Saverio Cardelli, patrizio romano, ed. D.G. Rossi, Rome 1898, not seen); offered by James Tregaskis, Caxton Head catalogue 500, 1902, no. 98 (pencil inscription and catalogue description pasted inside upper cover of volume I); Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.