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Ars Notariatus. [Rome: Eucario Silber, c. 1500-1509].

Grassus, Antonius (d. 1491), Attributed to

Unrecorded in North America: A Towering Roman Post-Incunabula Rarity of the Foundational Ars Notariatus Grassus, Antonius (d. 1491), Attributed to. Ars Notariatus. [Rome: Eucario Silber, c. 1500-1509]. Slim Quarto (8.2" x 5.2"; 207 mm x 133 mm). [12] pp. Complete. Single quire of six leaves: a6. Issued without title page, text begins on leaf a1r with the Tabula. Printed in single column, 35 lines per page, utilizing Silber's celebrated Gothic Rotunda type (6*:86G/M88). Bound in slightly oversized twentieth-century marbled paper wrappers with a printed paper label to the front cover. Minor fading and rubbing to wrappers. Internal text block crisp with ample margins; minor age-toning, light marginal foxing, and faint hand-soiling. Leaf a1r with a few letters in the Tabula neatly obscured due to a minor, stable historical adhesion/abrasion; small, early manuscript marginalia to fore-margin of leaf a4r. A solid, genuine, and remarkably well-preserved copy of a towering rarity in Renaissance Roman printing. $1,500. An Unrecorded Survival in North America An extraordinary, highly rare post-incunable Roman edition of this foundational late-medieval manual on the notarial arts. The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) tracks a mere three surviving copies globally, all tightly held within Italian institutional libraries (Censimento Nazionale 3175; OPAC CNCE003175). No copies are recorded in North American or British repositories. While printed anonymously in the tradition of early legal ephemera and pamphlets, the Ars Notariatus is traditionally attributed to Antonius Grassus, the eminent judge of the Apostolic Tribunal of the Rota Romana, professor of Canon Law at Bologna (1472), Chancellor to Pope Sixtus IV, and Bishop of Tivoli. First printed in Rome by Sachsel and Golsch in 1474, the text served as the definitive, everyday desk reference for the late-medieval legal professional, establishing the procedural and ethical bedrock that would later inspire the Holy Roman Empire's foundational Reichsnotariatsordnung of 1512. Legal Status and Social Insights Comprising 26 concise chapters, Grassus's manual defines the notarial craft as a sacred civic shield: "the art of being a notary is the art of writing and expressing arguments in writing so as to straighten the complexities of human frailty and commit them t.

Price: $1,500.00

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