LYNDEWODE, William. Prouinciale seu Constitutiones Anglie -- John ACTON. Consitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius and Jean Chappuis, Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl for William Bretton (and Henry Jacobi and Joyce Pelgrim) in London, 23 March 1505; 1506, 2°, printed in red and black, six-part border and six small cuts surrounding Hopyl device on titles to both parts, also with monograms of Jacobi and Pelgrim, woodcut of Bretton arms, woodcut of King and his council, and another large woodcut, fine woodcut ornamental initials (lacking K1.6, K6 possibly blank, stain on final leaf and slight stain in extreme upper margins, tear into text on one leaf without loss), 19-century speckled calf (neatly repaired at head of spine). [STC 17109; Renouard Badius, II, 51-2; Renouard-Moreau Inventaire Chronologique 1506, 119]

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LYNDEWODE, William. Prouinciale seu Constitutiones Anglie -- John ACTON. Consitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius and Jean Chappuis, Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl for William Bretton (and Henry Jacobi and Joyce Pelgrim) in London, 23 March 1505; 1506, 2°, printed in red and black, six-part border and six small cuts surrounding Hopyl device on titles to both parts, also with monograms of Jacobi and Pelgrim, woodcut of Bretton arms, woodcut of King and his council, and another large woodcut, fine woodcut ornamental initials (lacking K1.6, K6 possibly blank, stain on final leaf and slight stain in extreme upper margins, tear into text on one leaf without loss), 19-century speckled calf (neatly repaired at head of spine). [STC 17109; Renouard Badius, II, 51-2; Renouard-Moreau Inventaire Chronologique 1506, 119]

Provenance

16th-century ownership trimmed from K4v; inscription dated 1568 crossed through by Richard Walleys (16th century).

Lot Essay

A large copy of the classic compendium of English canon law. Badius's dedicatory letter to William Warham opening the second part is dated 13 September 1506.

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