Institutiones : Mit der Glossa ordinaria von Accursius Florentinus. Mit Gedicht auf den Drucker 'Scema tabernaculi moises... '

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Englische Version: This edition of the glossed Institutiones (Institutes) of the Emperor Justinian was printed in the Mainz workshop of Peter Schöffer (circa 1425-circa 1502), previously assistant of Johann Gutenberg, in 1468. This very copy was printed on parchment and lavishly illustrated with a miniature depicting a bust of the emperor with the imperial insignia of the crown, the orb and cross, the scepter and the imperial coat of arms, as well as with tempera initials with foliate extensions. At the bottom of folio 1 recto a coat of arms can be identified as the device of the firm Fust and Schöffer, from which it only differs in the red rose painted at the point of intersection. Three parchment leaves precede the text, of which the first bears a pen drawing of the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus and a kneeling clergyman being commended to Mary and Jesus by Saints Jerome and Giles (Aegidius); the third leaf contains a handwritten list of contents. It has been suggested that the book initially belonged to Johann Fust the younger, the son of Gutenberg's financier Johann Fust the elder (died 1466), and brother-in-law of Peter Schöffer. The younger Fust became co-owner of his deceased father's printing house. He later entered the monastery of Saint Stephen's in Mainz, where he died as dean in 1501. The figure of Saint Giles seems to contradict the identification of the clergyman depicted with Johann Fust on folio 1 verso. Alternatively, the book may have been owned by a monastery, such as that of Saint Aegidius in Nuremberg. This theory is supported by the stylistic characteristics of the pen drawings and the tempera paintwork. After the Palatinate city of residence of Mannheim fell to Baden in 1803, the holdings of the Mannheim Court Library, including this book, were transported to Munich in 1803 or 1804. // Autor: Karl-Georg Pfändtner

Object Details

• Alternative title: Corpus iuris civilis
• Location: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 2 L.impr.membr. 24
• Dimensions: 2°
• Language: Latein
• Notes: Bibliogr. Nachweis: Hain 9489. Pell-Pol 6793. Pol 2340. IGI 5486. BMC I,25 (IC. 128). Goff J506.

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Institutiones ; Corpus juris civilis ; Roman law

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mainz
• (who): Peter Schöffer
• (when): 1468.05.24
• Creator: Justianus I. (Imperator)
• Contributor: Accursius, Franciscus (Senior)

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00036837-3
• Last update: 16.04.2025, 8:41 AM CEST