GRATIANUS (d.1158). Decretum . With apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis (d.1258) and of Johannes Semeca (fl.1216). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 30 November 1493. Median 2° (338 x 230mm). Collation: a-r 1 0 s 1 2 t-z 1 0 \\i 1 0 A-D 1 0 E 6 F-I 8 . 1 0 K-M 1 0 N-Q 8 . 1 0 R-S 1 0 (a1 title, a2 text with commentary surround, s9r colophon, s10v blank). 410 leaves. 62 lines of text, 73 lines of commentary, headline, double column. Type: 14:130G, 18:83G, 12:64 aG. Headline, headings, initials and paragraph marks printed in red after the black printing. First 8-line illuminated initial in blue and green with white patterning on a punched gold ground within a frame of pink, red, green and blue, 2- to 4-line initial spaces with printed guide-letter filled in red or blue. (Occasional dampstain at fore-margin, paper flaw without loss in 4 leaves, light browning, heavier in sheets g1.10, p1.10 and t1.10, title and final blank soiled.) Early 20th-century brown morocco preserving remnants of the contemporary Nuremberg sides of blindstamped calf with title lettered on upper cover, Kyriss shop 118, tools 1-4, 3, Schwenke-Sammlung , Greif 39 and Blattwerk 522 (Nuremberg 'Haller-Meister'). Provenance : extensively annotated in a contemporary German hand; ?Munich, Canons regular (17th-century inscription); Richard G.S. King, the Very Reverend Dean of Derry (bookplate, sale Sotheby's 16 December 1946, lot 66, £19 to Commin). Second Koberger edition of one of the foundation texts of canon law; it forms the first part of the Corpus iuris Canonici . Its utility is demonstrated by the copious annotations written by a contemporary reader of this copy. HC * 7913; BMC II, 437 (IB. 7456); BSB G-281; Polain(B) 1685; Goff G-386.
GRATIANUS (d.1158). Decretum . With apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis (d.1258) and of Johannes Semeca (fl.1216). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 30 November 1493. Median 2° (338 x 230mm). Collation: a-r 1 0 s 1 2 t-z 1 0 \\i 1 0 A-D 1 0 E 6 F-I 8 . 1 0 K-M 1 0 N-Q 8 . 1 0 R-S 1 0 (a1 title, a2 text with commentary surround, s9r colophon, s10v blank). 410 leaves. 62 lines of text, 73 lines of commentary, headline, double column. Type: 14:130G, 18:83G, 12:64 aG. Headline, headings, initials and paragraph marks printed in red after the black printing. First 8-line illuminated initial in blue and green with white patterning on a punched gold ground within a frame of pink, red, green and blue, 2- to 4-line initial spaces with printed guide-letter filled in red or blue. (Occasional dampstain at fore-margin, paper flaw without loss in 4 leaves, light browning, heavier in sheets g1.10, p1.10 and t1.10, title and final blank soiled.) Early 20th-century brown morocco preserving remnants of the contemporary Nuremberg sides of blindstamped calf with title lettered on upper cover, Kyriss shop 118, tools 1-4, 3, Schwenke-Sammlung , Greif 39 and Blattwerk 522 (Nuremberg 'Haller-Meister'). Provenance : extensively annotated in a contemporary German hand; ?Munich, Canons regular (17th-century inscription); Richard G.S. King, the Very Reverend Dean of Derry (bookplate, sale Sotheby's 16 December 1946, lot 66, £19 to Commin). Second Koberger edition of one of the foundation texts of canon law; it forms the first part of the Corpus iuris Canonici . Its utility is demonstrated by the copious annotations written by a contemporary reader of this copy. HC * 7913; BMC II, 437 (IB. 7456); BSB G-281; Polain(B) 1685; Goff G-386.
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