Yale Center for British Art

Title:
[Digestum novum]
Alternate Title(s):
Beginning of text (in red): Domini Iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetue semper augusti
Published / Created:
[Basel] : [Berthold Ruppel], [approximately 1478]
Physical Description:
[820] pages ; 42 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0195
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title and imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.

This is a page by page reprint of the Jenson edition of 1477. See: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00567000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J567

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 9579

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7703

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, III, page 715 (IC. 37017)

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0195: Imperfect: upper part of leaf 2 only (with incipit). With a miniature depicting the Emperor enthroned, painted in gold and colors (signed "AC"). From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Roman law. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions) | Hand coloring. | Miniatures (paintings)
Contributors:
Accursius, glossator, approximately 1182–approximately 1260. | Ruppel, Berthold, -1494 or 1495, printer.