• LUDOVICUS PONTANUS, SINGULARIA IURIS. [Utrecht?: ca. 1468-1469]

Collections:
  • Incunabula at Princeton
  • In Principio
  • Netherlands Grouping
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • The Scheide Library
  • Treasures of Rare Book Division
Curatorial Note:
  • The Pontanus uses the largest of the Prototypography fonts, with body size equal to that of the Gutenberg Bible font. Various editions of Donatus were printed with this font, but none of Alexander de Villa Dei. The tracts of the Roman jurist Ludovicus Pontanus, “monarch” of civil and canon law, presumably came north in manuscript from Italy together with the tracts of the Saliceto edition. Part II of the book, in the smaller Saliceto type, is a miscellany of epitaphs in the same setting as those in the Saliceto edition. Thus both fonts, larger and smaller, were in the same printing shop, and the two editions were printed concurrently. Likewise, the paper stocks of the two editions are the same.
Author:
  • Pontano, Lodovico, 1409-1439
Uniform title:
  • Singularia juris
Provenance:
  • Provenance: Sion College, London; acquired May, 1998.
Creator:
  • Pontano, Lodovico, 1409-1439
Language:
  • Latin
Call number:
  • 43.5
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 59 leaves ; 28.2 x 18.6 cm. (Chancery fol.)
Format:
  • Book
Description:
  • Types 4 Pontanus, 5 Saliceto.
Publisher:
  • [Utrecht? : Prototypography Press, not after 1472?]
Title sort:
  • Singularia iuris ; Tractatus de praesumptionibus ; etc.
Binding note:
  • Bound in 19th-century half-sheep, marbled boards.
References:
  • Goff P-926.
  • HC 13264.
  • CA 1186.
  • Incunabula short title catalogue ip00926000
Created:
  • 1472-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1472
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/5d86p2850
Location:
  • WHS 43.5
  • WHS Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 43.5
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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