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BONIFACIUS VIII (1235?-1303, Pope). Liber sextus Decretalium. With gloss of Johannes Andreae. -- Johannes ANDREAE (1270-1348). Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, '16 April' [probably after 19 May] 1479. [Bound with:] CLEMENS V, (1264-1314, Pope). Constitutiones. (cum apparatu Joannis Andreae). Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, '7' June 1479.
2 works in one volume, royal 2° (378 x 260mm). Roman type, double column, chapter headings in red, initials and paragraph marks supplied in blue and red. (Front hinges cracked, some spotting and predominantly marginal dampstaining, a few leaves lightly browned.) 16th-century blindtooled half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, blue edges, 2 clasps (neat tear at head of spine, extremities worn, one clasp partially detached, without leather strap). Provenance: indices in early hand on blank leaves in both works -- chapter headings in ?17th-century hand.
These two works, along with the Decretum of Gratian and the five-book Decretals of Gregory IX (to which Boniface's work is the 'sixth book'), formed the Corpus Juris Canonici. This edition of the Liber sextus Decretalium is a reprint, mostly page-for-page, of Jenson's edition of 1476. I: HC(Add) *3599; BMC V, 234; GW 4863; Goff B-990. II: HC *5424; BMC V, 235; GW 7108; Goff C-736.
2 works in one volume, royal 2° (378 x 260mm). Roman type, double column, chapter headings in red, initials and paragraph marks supplied in blue and red. (Front hinges cracked, some spotting and predominantly marginal dampstaining, a few leaves lightly browned.) 16th-century blindtooled half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, blue edges, 2 clasps (neat tear at head of spine, extremities worn, one clasp partially detached, without leather strap). Provenance: indices in early hand on blank leaves in both works -- chapter headings in ?17th-century hand.
These two works, along with the Decretum of Gratian and the five-book Decretals of Gregory IX (to which Boniface's work is the 'sixth book'), formed the Corpus Juris Canonici. This edition of the Liber sextus Decretalium is a reprint, mostly page-for-page, of Jenson's edition of 1476. I: HC(Add) *3599; BMC V, 234; GW 4863; Goff B-990. II: HC *5424; BMC V, 235; GW 7108; Goff C-736.
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The are two fore-edge catches. The clasps are not complete.