Uniform title
Consolat de mar. Italian
Title
Libro di consolato novamente stampato et ricorretto, : nel quale sono scritti capitoli & statuti & buone ordinationi, che li antichi ordinarono per li casi di mercantia & di mare & mercanti & marinari, & patroni di nauilii..
Imprint
Stampato in Vinegia : per Giouanni Padoanno ad instantia de Giouan Battista Pedrezano., M D XXXIX. [1539]
Physical description
[6], CXXII leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Note
Signatures: a6 A-O8 P10.
Note
Place of printing and name of printer from colophon on leaf P10r: "Stampato in Vinegia per Giouanni Padoanno ad instantia de Giouan Battista Pedrezano. M D XXXIX.". Imprint date is printed at foot of title page.
Note
Title page has woodcut illustration of two ships, with four named saints looking down from the clouds.
Note
Device of Giovanbattista Pedrezano on verso of final leaf.
Note
Dedicatory epistle at beginning is written by Giovanbattista Pedrezano.
Citation/references note
CLC, C1646
Citation/references note
Adams, C2534
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
17th-century (?) laced-case parchment, stiffened with paper; sewn on three supports; title written in ink along spine (faded); later spine label with title: "Statuti de Mercantia et di Mare"; remains of two pairs of ties at fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Marginal annotations in an early hand on leaves CVIv-CXv.
Subject
Maritime law Early works to 1800.
Subject
War, Maritime (International law) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Commercial law Early works to 1800.
Subject
Naval law Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Pedrezano, Giovanbattista editor.
Added entry--name
Padovano, Giovanni, active 1531-1558 printer.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
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