Lot 73
  • 73

Bonifacius VIII

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Liber sextus decretalium una cum apparatus Joannis Andreae [edited by Petrus Albinianus Trecius]. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, [not before 19 May] 1479, 146 leaves, a10 b-d8 e-f6 g-m8 n6 o-q8 r10 s12, double column, 68 lines of commentary, gothic type, some red printing, 2- to 4-line initials in red or blue, red and blue paraphs, some manuscript headlines, final blank with a manuscript list of rubrics
  • Paper
CLEMENS V. Constitutiones (cum apparatu Joannis Andreae) [with XXIX Extravagantes]. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 7 June 1479, 82 leaves, a10 b-e8 f-g10 h8; i12, double column, 68 lines of commentary, gothic type, some red printing, 3- to 7-line initials in red and blue, red and blue paraphs, a1 recto with manuscript list of rubrics

2 works in one volume, Royal folio (378 x 260mm.), sixteenth-century blind-tooled half pigskin over wooden boards, two clasps, blue edges, occasional light staining, lacking both straps, joints starting to crack

Literature

Goff B990 & C3776; HC 3599 & 5424; BMC v 234 & 235; BSB-Ink B-710 & C-442; Bod-inc B-468; GW 4863 & 7108

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

A finely-printed pair of works on canon law, both with prefaces by Petrus Albinianus Trecius (Pietro Albignano da Treccia) of Padua university, who worked for Nicolas Jenson and his successors.

The manuscript lists of rubrics are dated "In octava S Martini 83 Nurmberg", i.e. 18 November 1483 in Nuremberg.