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GREGORIUS IX, Pope (formerly Ugolino, Count of Segni, c.1148-1241, Pope from 1227). Decretales cum glossa. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 23 November 1473.
Imperial 2° (446 x 320mm). Collation: [1-310 46 54(3+1) 6-810 9-106 11-1210 138 1410(9+1) K15-1610 178 186(5+1) 19-2110 226 236(5+1) 24-2610 278 286 29-3010 318(5+1) 32-3310 3412] (1/1r Book I, 11/1r Book II, 19/1r Book III, 26/2r Book IV, 29/1r Book V, 34/11r colophon, 34/11v commendatory verses, 34/12 blank). 305 leaves. 81 lines (full page of commentary), double column, text with commentary surround. Types 5:118G (text, colophon, commendatory verse), 6:92G (gloss). Rubric headings, colophon, printer's device and last poem printed in red. One 21-line illuminated miniature by a contemporary artist in gold and colours at beginning of Book I featuring Pope Gregory, crowned and seated on a throne with a young man kneeling at his foot and holding an open book, one 9-line illuminated initial, initials and paragraph marks supplied alternately in red and blue. (First leaf somewhat soiled, a few small wormholes in first quire, some marginal dampstaining, heavier in last three quires, rust stain and some wax stains affecting a few letters on 9/2v, 12/3v, 8/10v and 8/11r, blank corner of 9/6 cut away.) Near-contemporary blindstamped half calf over bevelled wooden boards, 2 later metal catches, green edges, manuscript quire guards, 3 early flyleaves retained with ms genealogy and contents, later endpapers (without original clasps, worn and wormed, flyleaves torn). Provenance: Wangen, Allgau, St. Martin (17th-century inscription on first leaf) -- early marginalia (some trimmed).
SECOND EDITION, WITH A FINE, CONTEMPORARY ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. The Decretals form the primary work associated with Pope Gregory IX. In 1230 he ordered his chaplain St. Raymond of Peñafort to form a new collection of canonical laws to replace those formerly used. The project took four years to complete, and the result contains 1,971 chapters which incorporate parts of the earlier laws, while reclassifying some and deleting others that were found obsolete. The gloss is by the Bolognese decretalist Bernardo of Parma (d. 1266).
HC* 7999; BMC I, 30; GW 11451; Voull(B) 1529; BSB-Ink G-332; Goff G-447.
Imperial 2° (446 x 320mm). Collation: [1-3
SECOND EDITION, WITH A FINE, CONTEMPORARY ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. The Decretals form the primary work associated with Pope Gregory IX. In 1230 he ordered his chaplain St. Raymond of Peñafort to form a new collection of canonical laws to replace those formerly used. The project took four years to complete, and the result contains 1,971 chapters which incorporate parts of the earlier laws, while reclassifying some and deleting others that were found obsolete. The gloss is by the Bolognese decretalist Bernardo of Parma (d. 1266).
HC* 7999; BMC I, 30; GW 11451; Voull(B) 1529; BSB-Ink G-332; Goff G-447.
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