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LEGAL TREATISES, including the Tiberiadis of Bartolus de Sassoferrata, in Latin, ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Italy, second half 15th century] 308 x 212mm. 331 leaves 1-4 1 0, 5 1 2, 6-7 1 0, 8 1 2, 9-26 1 0, 27 8, 28-32 1 0, 33 9(of 10, lacking x blank), final double leaf with list of contents preserved separartely, catchwords in centre of lower margins of final versos, between 40-55 lines written in a small cursive script in brown ink between two verticals obtained by folding the sheets in half and then half again, written area approx. 208 x 106mm, rubrics in red, red paraphs, spaces for large initials, 39 DIAGRAMS IN RED, BLUE AND BROWN illustrating the Tiberiadis , two later diagrams of the tables of consanguinity in red and brown (margins worn, water staining to upper margins, on some leaves extending into the text without loss of legibility, upper part of final double leaf missing into text, marginal annotations by various contemporary and later hands, corroded later ink blot in text f.140). Wooden boards on three leather bands, remains of leather to spine and inside covers, title on lower page edges (wormed, upper and lower covers split along wormholes, lacking two clasps). Two parchment bifolia from a twelfth-century Italian antiphonal, with the chants for Easter and part of its octave, used as pastedowns removed and preserved separately: ten lines written in a protogothic bookhand in black ink between two verticals and 20 horizontals and below three-line staves ruled in metalpoint of Beneventan neumes, the ruling above each line of text reinforced in red, large initials in red, one very large red initial with an infill of scrolling red stems on blue (worn and stained, tear through much of text on one folio). AN EXTENSIVE COMPENDIUM OF LEGAL TEXTS, INCLUDING AN EARLY COPY OF THE FIRST WORK TO APPLY GEOMETRIC PRINCIPLES TO LAND-SURVEYING AND MAP-MAKING PROVENANCE: 1. This compilation was assembled in Italy as a legal reference work; the inclusion of the treatise on the Guelphs and the Ghibellines perhaps suggests that it was made for an Italian rather than for one of the many foreigners who came to study law at the acknowledged centres of excellence in Italy. The twelfth-century antiphonal leaves used as pastedowns probably originated in central Italy. 2. Library number 171 on detached pastedown. CONTENT: Albericus de Maletis: Tractatus de testibus ( Tractatus Universi Iuris , Venice, 1583-4, 4, 162-179) ff.1-45v; Angelus de Ubaldi, as stated in the text (1328-1423), attributed by an annotator to his more famous brother, Baldus (1327-1400): Ad reprobandum testes ff.46-48v; blanks ff.49-52v; Jacobus Egidii: De reprobatione testium ff.53-64; Jacobus de Arena (d.c.1296): De sequestratione ff.64v-65v; Angelus de Ubaldi: De sequestratione (TUI, 3) ff.66-67v; Jacobus de Arena: De quaestionibus ff.67v-69; Dinus de Mugello (c.1253-c.1303): De praescriptionibus ff.69v-72v; Tractatus protestationum , ff.73-76; Ubertus de Bobbio (d. by June 1245): De positionibus ff.76v-82; Matthaeus Mateselanus: De electione opinionum ff.82-83; Baldus de Ubaldi, the more famous brother of Angelus, (1327-1400): Forma adictionis cum inventario (TUI, 8.2, 323) ff.83v-84v; Bartolus de Sassoferrato (1313-1357): Tractatus de questionibus ff.84v-89v; Baldus de Ubaldi: Tractatus de tabellionibus cum adictione domini Martini de Fano (d. after 1272) (TUI, 3, 364v-366v) ff.89v-94v, and Tractatus de colectis , ff.94v-98; Johannis Andreae (c.1270-1348): Tractatus seu summula super matrimoniis , Book IV of Apparatus glossarum in Decretales , Hain 1068-1077, ff.98-101v, and Lectura super arbore consanguinitatis et affinitatis , ff.101v-105; Guillelmus de Cunio (fl.c.1310): Tractatus securitatum ff.106-107; Tractatus de cicatricibus f.107v; Matthaeus Mateselanis: Tractatus extensionis iuris civilis et canonici , so attributed in Leiden, UB, Ms d'Ablaing 28, ff.107v-110; Petrus de Ubaldi, brother of Baldus and Angelus (1336-1406): Tractatus permutation