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ANGELUS DE CLAVASIO (1411-1495). Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 28 August 1488.

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ANGELUS DE CLAVASIO (1411-1495). Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 28 August 1488.

2o (305 x 215 mm). 312 leaves. 61 lines and headline, double-column. Gothic types 9:165 (headlines), 14:130 (headings) and 17:72 (text). Capital spaces with printed guide letters. Large divided initial letter "A," and Lombard initials supplied in alternate red and blue. (Few occasional wormholes, occasionally catching letters, intermittent pale browning to approximately 10 leaves.) Modern binding made from an old vellum antiphonal leaf over stiff boards (inner hinges cracked). Provenance: extensive notes on first blank and marginalia in an early hand. -- Nuremberg, City Library (early armorial paper booklabel mounted in first initial space).

Fifth edition of Angelo Carletti's authoritative compendium of canon law, and the first printed by Koberger. The first edition was published in Chivasso by Jacobinus Suigus in 1486. BMC II 432; BSB-Ink. A-527; CIBN A-385; GW 1927; HC *5385; Oates 1014, 1015; Pr 2064; Goff A-717.

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