A LEAF FROM DE REPERTORIUM UTRIUSQUE IURIS, PRINTED BY JOHANNES HERBORT, de SELIGENSTADT, PADUA, 1480

A large folio leaf from the 1480 edition of Petrus de Monte's Repertorium utriusque iuris, printed in Padua (Republic of Venice) by Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt Schüssler. The leaf measures 435 x 292 mm (17 ¼ x 11 ½ inches) printed in double columns, 63 lines. Rubricated paragraph marks & highlights. Some light browning, very fresh. See Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries (1964), item M-844. ISTC im00844000. Pietro del Monte (Petrus de Monte Brixensis) (c. 1400 - 1457) was a Venetian jurist, canonist and humanist. He studied at the University of Padua, as a student of Prodocimo de Conti and Giovan Francesco di Capodilista. He was papal collector in England from 1435-1440. Subsequently he was papal legate to France. He became Bishop of Brescia in 1442. Title from caption at incipit on leaf a2 recto of part I. Imprints from colophon on leaf Z7 recto in part II, which reads in full: Expletu[m] est Repertorium reuerendi patris & d[omi]ni Petri ep[iscop]i Brixien[sis]. i[m]pressum Patauii per honorabile[m] virum Joannem Herbort de Silgenstat. ac emendatum p[er] excellentissimu[m] legu[m] doctorem d[omi]n[u]m Comitem de Aluarotis in iure ciuili publice in florentissimo ginasio Patauino legentem. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxx. die .xvi. Nouembris.…