Formularium Instrumentorum ad Usum Curiae Romanae. Rome, 1487 by Curia Romana - 1487

1487. Rome: Stephan Plannck, 7 Sept. 1487. Quarto.. Rome: Stephan Plannck, 7 Sept. 1487. Quarto. Pleading in the Curia Romana [Curia Romana]. [Formularium Instrumentorum ad Usum Curiae Romanae]. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, 7 Sept. 1487]. [178] ff. Collation: [a-g8, h6, i-y8, z4]. Complete. Quarto (8-1/4" x 5-1/2"; 21 x 14 cm). Recent binding from a 14th-century choirbook leaf, likely from the low countries, early-vellum pastedowns with faint early manuscript annotations to front pastedown, additional early annotations to the recto of leaf [a1]. Negligible light rubbing and soiling to exterior, front pastedown partially detached but secure. 48-line, single-column main text, initial spaces blank. Light toning to interior, occasional faint stains, and a few finger smudges and inkstains, to margins, brief early annotations to a few leaves, light soiling and some edgewear to a few leaves at the beginning and end of text, repair to gutter between leaves [a1] and [a2], lower outside corner lacking from leaf [y4] with no loss to text. An attractive copy. $10,000. * First printed in Rome in 1474 by Johann Schurener and Johann Nicolai Hanheymer, the Formularium Instrumentorum is a legal formbook applicable to the Papal Curia Romana. It contains examples of such documents as wills, excommunications and indulgences. An indispensable handbook, it went through several editions. Our imprint is a reissue of an edition published by Plannck in 1484. (Both are identical in all respects except the colophon date.) The ISTC locates 15 copies, 3 imperfect, 2 in North America, which are complete (Harvard Law School, Library of Congress). Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) if00259000.