Supplementum Summae Pisanellae

Supplementum Summae Pisanellae
Vindelinus de Spira, 1473
NICOLAUS DE AUSMO (d. 1453). Supplementum Summae Pisanellae. –ASTESANUS DE AST (d. 1330). Canones poenitentiales. [Venice:] Vindelinus de Spira [not after 28 July 1473]

First edition of a popular digest of canon law, with illuminated initial and intriguing marginalia. This supplement to the Summa of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio comes from the press of Vindelino da Spira, first printer at Venice with his brother Johan. H 2150*; BMC V 163; BSB-Ink N-69; IGI 6867; Goff N-57; ISTC in00057000.

Super-chancery folio (314 x 204mm). 342 leaves. Illuminated initial within 3/4 illuminated border.with berries and fruits and an armorial shield, smaller initials in red and blue (occasional worm tracks, some spotting). Modern pigskin over wooden boards. Provenance: armorial shield, argent? a bend gules, with the imperial eagle in chief and the initials 'C.P', perhaps belonging to the Tinti family of Cremona – manuscript poem is copied on the first blank, “Dux Calabrie ad oratorem Venetum,” which is also extant in a 15th-century Italian manuscript (Q114, Schneeberg Gymnasialbibliothek), about Roberto Malatesta, followed by a short historical note about his military career.