Owner: Kartause Sankt Barbara, Cologne, Allemagne ( 1334 - 1794)
Description: Sixteenth-century blind-stamped binding, with two foredge clips and clasps, and remains of two brown leather straps. Fragment pastedowns at either end, two leaves from a thirteenth-century manuscript copy of Justinian's 'Digestum' with commentary, likely from Bologna. Red leather tabs at the foredge mark the start of the first two texts in the binding, and probably the tab for the start of the third was once present, now missing. Manuscript titling on spine in black ink. Note on the front flyleaf recto states 'Einband: Köln, Karthäuser, 1 Gruppe, Kyriss 16, Taf 33, Stempel 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, dazu kleine Lilie in Raufe'.
Source: Johannes Chrysostomus, Opus imperfectum in Mattheum , Cologne Johann Koelhoff, the Elder 1487
Institution: Athens, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation Shelfmark: INC110
Place of use: Köln Century: 16th
Type: Binding Technique: Blind Stamp
Language: Latin
Notes: Bound with INC111 (Johannes Chrysostomus: Epistola ad Cyriacum. Tr: Leodrisius Cribellus. Add: Sermones XXV morales; Epistola ad Theodorum. Tr: Christophorus Persona. - [Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, about 1487] [ij00284000]) and INC112 (Pelbartus de Themeswar: Stellarium coronae beatae Mariae Virginis. - Hagenau : Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 2 May 1498 [ip00258000]).

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49M51 book-cover, binding

See: https://data.cerl.org/istc/ij00289000
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