1484 Venice Printings of the

Liber Sextus Decretalium and Clementinae Constitutiones

[Boniface VIII, Pope (1235-1303)].

[D'Andrea, Giovanni [c.1270-1348], Glossator. [Liber Sextus Decretalium]. [ Venice : Bernardinus Benalius, 27 January 1484/1485 ]. 146 fols. Main text surrounded by linear glosses in parallel columns. Collation: a-R8, S10.

[Bound with]

[Clement V, Pope (c.1264-1314)].

[D'Andrea, Giovanni (c.1270-1348), Glossator].

[Clementinae Constitutiones]. [ Venice : Bernardinus Benalius, 15 November 1484 ]. 76 fols. Main text surrounded linear glosses in parallel columns. Collation: A-F8, G[12], H-I8. Leaves G5-8 supplied in facsimile.

Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary blind-tooled quarter calf over wooden boards, raised bands to spine, early hand-lettered titles to front board, bronze clasp, alum-tawed calf tie partially lacking. Spine rubbed with considerable wear to ends, several tiny worn holes, corners bumped and somewhat worn, pastedowns renewed, front hinge carefully mended, rear hinge cracked. Text in 62-line gothic type printed throughout in red and black with blank capital spaces. Marginalia to several leaves, annotations to front free endpaper and manuscript register to rear endleaf in early hand. Wormholes to some leaves with negligible loss to text, foxing to margins of some leaves, interior otherwise fresh. $17,500.
 
* With a register of titles and D'Andrea's Super Arboribus Consanguinitatis et Affinitatis. Attempts to codify the body of canon law began in earnest during the Carolingian Empire. These efforts reached fruition between 1020 and 1025 in the twenty-volume Decretum of Burchard, Bishop of Worms. The next great step was taken in 1234 with the Libri Quinque Decretalium (1253) of Gregory IX, which formed the basis of the Corpus Juris Canonici. The Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII (1298), the last great collection of the pre-Reformation era, consists of updates and modifications. The Clementinae Constitutiones (1313) is a collection of papal legislation that modifies portions of the Liber Sextus. It was followed by the Extravagantes Joannes XXII and the Extravagantes Communes in 1325. All of these texts were edited after the Council of Trent in 1582 under the collective title Corpus Juris Canonici. Andrea was an Italian canonist and professor of canon law at the University of Bologna . An eminent figure who received the highest tributes from Arithemius, Baldus, Forster and Bellarmin, his principal writings circulated widely in manuscript and were among the earliest printed works on canon law. The glosses on these editions were first published in 1472. Leaves G5-8 of the Clementinae Constitutiones seem to have been removed at an early date. The leaves are renumbered after G8 and this pagination governs the manuscript register on the rear endleaf. The reason why they were removed remains a matter of speculation. Copies of our Liber Sextus imprint located in the U.S. at the Library of Congress and Newberry Library; copies of the Clementinae located at Harvard Law School, the Library of Congress and UC-Berkeley. The Catholic Encyclopedia (online version). Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 4875, 7102. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries B998, C731 . Law Books 53745