Bottigella, In primam partem C. commentaria, Venice, Accademia Veneziana, 1558, later calf gilt, Powis copy

Bottigella, Girolamo. Hieronymi Butigellae Papiensis equitis, et V.I.D. clarissimi, In primam partem C. commentaria, ac repetitiones, ex libro ipsius auctoris manuscripto. [Venice]: Accademia Veneziana, 1558

Girolamo Bottigella (or Butigella, 1470-1515), a jurist from Pavia, taught canon and civil law in Pavia, Padua and Rome; this work, a commentary on the first part of the Code, was based on his lectures. A larger compilation of his legal writings (repetitiones) had been printed in Lyon in 1553.

Folio (285 x 202 mm). Roman type, double column, 66 lines plus headline. collation: *² A-S⁴ T⁶ a-c⁴ d⁶: 98 leaves (T4 and d6 blank), index bound at front, dedication bound between quires a and b. Engraved printer's device on title-page. (Without blank leaf d6.)

binding: Early nineteenth-century diced russia with border tooled in gilt and blind (290 x 213 mm), spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges. (Upper hinge cracked and weak, extremities slightly rubbed.)

provenance: Murray, Dukes of Atholl (armorial bookplate cut out and pasted to front flyleaf) — Edward Clive Herbert, 2nd Earl Powis (1758-1848, "Powis" inscription on flyleaf, not found separately in Replica Shoes , Wilkinson & Hodge, 20-22 March 1923, though possibly part of lot 2) — Christie's, South Kensington, 9 July 2002, lot 159A. acquisition: Purchased at the Christie's sale. references: UCLA 554; Edit16 7318; Renouard 271/7