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INCUNABULA] IMOLA, JOHANNES DE. [In Clementinas opus] . Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, 1475. [BOUND WITH] CEPOLLA, BARTHOLOMAEUS. [Cautelae]. [Perugia: Johann Vydenast, Petrus Petri de Colonia and Johannes Nicolai de Bamberga, 1473/1474]. Italian calf, probably of the period, once bossed and with clasps, one strap remaining. 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (40 x 28 cm); the first work 237 (of 238 ff., missing initial blank, of which traces remain), two columns, 63 lines, with fine rubricated initials throughout; the second in two sections, 32 and 18 ff., first leaf of the first section a blank, two columns, 50 lines, rubricated, collating as indicated by the Gesamtkatalog. The binding has a tear at the foot and wear to the head, and one strap, the clasps and the bosses are missing. These are fine large copies of both works, unpressed, crisp and generally clean (a little marginal foxing or soil here and there). The last two leaves of the first work have some marginal repairs (rather crude) clear of the text. Both bear the stamp of the Bar Association in the margins of the titles (and one other location). There are a couple of inoffensive worm holes, sporadic and very small, as well as some neat early pen marginalia, and a larger marginalium identifying the work at the foot of the first page. Pope Clemens V completed the medieval Corpus Juris Canonici with the publication of a collection of papal decretals known as "Clementinae," which serve as the the basis of the first work. The imprint and date of the second work are taken from the Gesamtkatalog listing (online version). Cepolla (or Cipolla), 1420(?)-1475, was a jurist specializing primarily in civil law who studied under De Castro, among others. He obtained his doctorate in Padua in 1445. This edition is not cited in Goff, although ISTC records a number of copies, including two in the US. For the first work, Goff E135; HC 6759*; Polain(B) 1437; BMC I 167; GW 9493 etc.; for the second, HR 4861; Veneziani (Perugia) 9; Polain(B) 1055; GW 6474 etc. C The New York City Bar Association