![BONIFACIUS VIII, Pope (formerly Benedetto Gaetano) (c.1230-1303). Liber sextus Decretalium. Commentary of Johannes Andreae (c.1270-1348). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 20 June 1486. [Bound with:] CLEMENS V, Pope (formerly Raimundus Bertrandi del Goth) (c.1264-1314). Constitutiones. Commentary of Johannes Andreae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0107_001(bonifacius_viii_pope_liber_sextus_decretalium_commentary_of_johannes_a052404).jpg?w=1)
![BONIFACIUS VIII, Pope (formerly Benedetto Gaetano) (c.1230-1303). Liber sextus Decretalium. Commentary of Johannes Andreae (c.1270-1348). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 20 June 1486. [Bound with:] CLEMENS V, Pope (formerly Raimundus Bertrandi del Goth) (c.1264-1314). Constitutiones. Commentary of Johannes Andreae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0107_000(bonifacius_viii_pope_liber_sextus_decretalium_commentary_of_johannes_a052404).jpg?w=1)
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BONIFACIUS VIII, Pope (formerly Benedetto Gaetano) (c.1230-1303). Liber sextus Decretalium. Commentary of Johannes Andreae (c.1270-1348). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 20 June 1486. [Bound with:] CLEMENS V, Pope (formerly Raimundus Bertrandi del Goth) (c.1264-1314). Constitutiones. Commentary of Johannes Andreae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486.
Two fundamental texts of canon law united in one volume, with contemporary illumination and binding. HC *3613, *5435; GW 4879, 7097; BMC II 429; Bod-inc C-371; BSB-Ink B-723, C-454; Goff B-1001, C-727.
2 works in one volume, median folio (330 x 225mm). Printed in red and black, each part complete with its first and last blank,each work opening with an illuminated portrait of Pope Boniface and an initial in blue, all on punched gold ground with silver balls within fictive frame, the second miniature with foliate flourishes, rubricated in red and blue (light waterstain at top inner corner, lightly soiled and stained, a few quires starting, a few small marginal tears, minor wormholes just touching a few letters in first and last quires, early marginalia). Contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, bound at Kyriss shop 72 now localised to Isny (Schwenke-Sammlung Jagd 18 and EBDB), remains of clasps, title tooled on front board, spine with ?17th-century wash and lettered (a few wormholes, lightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: Albertus Kuon (manuscript headlines and index on final blank signed and dated 1554, but appearing to be later; possibly Albert Kunius [1575-1611] philologist and professor at the University of Tübingen) – Burghausen, Jesuits (1629 inscription on first leaf).
Two fundamental texts of canon law united in one volume, with contemporary illumination and binding. HC *3613, *5435; GW 4879, 7097; BMC II 429; Bod-inc C-371; BSB-Ink B-723, C-454; Goff B-1001, C-727.
2 works in one volume, median folio (330 x 225mm). Printed in red and black, each part complete with its first and last blank,each work opening with an illuminated portrait of Pope Boniface and an initial in blue, all on punched gold ground with silver balls within fictive frame, the second miniature with foliate flourishes, rubricated in red and blue (light waterstain at top inner corner, lightly soiled and stained, a few quires starting, a few small marginal tears, minor wormholes just touching a few letters in first and last quires, early marginalia). Contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, bound at Kyriss shop 72 now localised to Isny (Schwenke-Sammlung Jagd 18 and EBDB), remains of clasps, title tooled on front board, spine with ?17th-century wash and lettered (a few wormholes, lightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: Albertus Kuon (manuscript headlines and index on final blank signed and dated 1554, but appearing to be later; possibly Albert Kunius [1575-1611] philologist and professor at the University of Tübingen) – Burghausen, Jesuits (1629 inscription on first leaf).
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