IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240294 accession number: PB 22-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 25 February 2020 updated: Monday 1 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: ISTC ig00362000; H 7885*; HC 7885 (var); GW 11353; Bod-inc G-180; BMC I 29 (var); IGI 4390; BSB-Ink G-254 object type: Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 13 Aug. 1472 Ills: fol.a1r Parchment, Folio, 482 x 324 mm, 217 fols., traces of old foliations in brown ink Type: Gothic BINDING: eighteenth century, Italian red morocco over pasteboards, gold-tooled CONTENTS fol.[a1]r Gratian, Decretum, with commentary by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Semeca DECORATION Zoomorphic initial [H, 15 ll.] in red and green formed of dragon and acanthus motif, with coiling and floral infill on light blue white-patterned ground, with arms of Simonetta family, azure, a lion rampant surmounted by a crown or, grasping a cross gules, with two putti as supporters, holding cornucopias, on white-patterned magenta ground in lower margin, for the incipit of Decretum (fol.[a1]r). ORNAMENTATION Blue or red penwork initials [4-9 ll.] for main text divisions, most with voided ornament, some with grotesque profile, one with penwork infill; red or blue penwork initials [2 ll.] for minor text divisions; blue or red penwork initials [2-4 ll.] for commentary; red or blue paraph marks title: PB 22-2020 NOTES ----- type: history note value: Member of the Simonetta family (arms on fol.[a1]r); Count Louis Apponyi (1849-1909); sold at auction of Count Apponyi’s library by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 10 November 1892, lot 535, to Quaritch for £40. 00s; Frank McClean (1837-1904), bookplate inside upper cover; his bequest in 1904. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240294 CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1472 - 1472 creation date earliest: 1472 creation date latest: 1472 CREATORS -------- maker: Gratian maker: Brixiensis, Bartholomaeus maker: Semeca, Johannes maker: Schoeffer, Peter CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest : catalogue of the early printed books bequeathed to the museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S ---