etrus Schoeffer, 21
August, 1477.

_Fol. 1^a._ [Text (red)]: In no_m_i_n_e d_omi_ni n_ost_ri ih_es_u
chr_ist_i. de heredib_us_ et falcidia _con_st_ituti_o prima si heres
legata soluere noluerit Incipit co_n_stitutio Imp_er_atoris Iustiniani.
a. Ioha_n_ni p_a_pe secu_n_do. [Commentary]: [I]N nomine d_omi_ni.
Iustinianus opus suu_m_ laudabile deo attribuit. _Fol. 169^b._ Explicit
liber aute_n_ticor_um_. _Fol. 170^a._ [Text (red)]: Incipiu_n_t
_con_suetudines feudor_um_. _Fol. 206^a._ [Text (red)]: Codicis d_omi_ni
iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite
p_re_lectionis incipit liber decimus. _Fol. 300^b_, COLOPHON (red): Anno
incarnac_i_o_n_is d_omi_nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale_n_dis septembrijs!
Sanctissimo in chr_ist_o patre ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Sixto p_a_pa .iiii.
po_n_tifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie d_omi_no,
d_omi_no Friderico Romanorum Imp_er_atore inuictissimo, monarchie
chr_is_tiane d_omi_nis! Reuerendissimo deoq_ue_ amabili in Chr_ist_o
p_at_re ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Diethero archip_re_sule Maguntino; in
ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue_n_trice atq_ue_ elimatrice
p_ri_ma .x. collac_i_onu_m_ triu_m_q_ue_ libroru_m_ Codicu_m_ opus
egregiu_m_, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue_n_te deo suis
consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [PRINTER'S DEVICE in red.]

Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [1^{10}, 2^8, 3-6^{10}, 7-8^6, 9^{10},
10^8, 11-12^{10}, 13^8, 14^{10}, 15^8, 16^6, 17-18^{10}, 19^{10-1}
(the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines
feudorum: quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri
X-XII: quires [1^8, 2^{10}, 3-5^8, 6^{10}, 7^8, 8^4, 9-10^{10},
11^{10+1} (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300
leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 51 lines of text
and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed
signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces, some
with guide-letters, left for capitals. Two pinholes, the use of
which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than
the date of this volume. Titles and colophon printed in red. The
text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th
cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).

The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral
scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen
initials in gold a