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SUMMENHART, Conradus (fl. 1476-1502). Opus septipartitum de contractibus. Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 13 October 1500.
Chancery 2° (280 x 200mm). Gothic type, double column, initial spaces with guide-letters. (Small wormholes affecting a few letters in first and final quires, very occasional light browning.) Contemporary blindtooled pigskin over wooden boards, 2 brass fore-edge catches, yellow edges, title in ink on spine (repairs to back cover mended, lacking clasps, some worming); stamps not in Kyriss/Schwenke-Sammlung. Provenance: Buxheim, Carthusians (inscription and stamp) -- L.H.P Klotz (sale Christie's, 2 November 1994, lot 143).
FIRST EDITION. In this work Summenhart combines theology and canon law to examine law as it pertains to the common person. He considers questions such as money exchange, buying and selling, loans and ownership, and, while as a theologian he believes charity is the greatest virtue, he treads the fine line between viewing any profitable venture as a sin and being able to make a profit with a clear conscience. This copy collates as Polain in the eighth to eleventh quires, varying from BMC, which calls for c-f6. HC *15179; Polain(B) 3637; BMC III, 688; IGI 9217; Kress S.19; Goff S-863.
Chancery 2° (280 x 200mm). Gothic type, double column, initial spaces with guide-letters. (Small wormholes affecting a few letters in first and final quires, very occasional light browning.) Contemporary blindtooled pigskin over wooden boards, 2 brass fore-edge catches, yellow edges, title in ink on spine (repairs to back cover mended, lacking clasps, some worming); stamps not in Kyriss/Schwenke-Sammlung. Provenance: Buxheim, Carthusians (inscription and stamp) -- L.H.P Klotz (sale Christie's, 2 November 1994, lot 143).
FIRST EDITION. In this work Summenhart combines theology and canon law to examine law as it pertains to the common person. He considers questions such as money exchange, buying and selling, loans and ownership, and, while as a theologian he believes charity is the greatest virtue, he treads the fine line between viewing any profitable venture as a sin and being able to make a profit with a clear conscience. This copy collates as Polain in the eighth to eleventh quires, varying from BMC, which calls for c-f6. HC *15179; Polain(B) 3637; BMC III, 688; IGI 9217; Kress S.19; Goff S-863.
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