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Lecture Jo An Super Arboribus Consaguitatis [et] Affinitatis...

Andrea, Giovanni d'; Andreae, Johannes; Andree,

An Early and Strikingly Illustrated Canon-Law Post Incunable of Kinship-With Contemporary Annotations Andrea, Giovanni d' [1275-1348]. [Greve, Henricus, Commentary]. Lecture Jo. An. Super Arboribus Consaguitatis [et] Affinitatis Necno[n] Cognationis Sp[irit]ualis et Legalis Cuiusdam Alteri[us] Doctoris Instar Jo. An. Scribe[n]tis cu[m] Co[m]me[n]tariolis Pulchris Notatis et Questio[n]ib[us] B[e]n[e] Eme[n]datis (Circa Easde[m] Q[ua]tuor Arbores Depictas ac Lecturas) In Margine Adiu[n]ctis et Impressis. [Leipzig: Martinus Herbipolensis (Martin Landsberg), 1511]. Folio. (11-3/4" x 8-1/4"). [18] ff. Five woodcut diagrams of consanguinity and affinity, two full-page, the first with early hand-coloring. Twentieth-century patterned wrappers, beginning to separate but sound. Light general toning, with occasional small stains and light soiling; a minute wormhole to the outer margin of the final ten leaves, not touching text. Leaves C2-C5 (ff. [14-17]) detached. Final leaf more heavily toned and soiled, with several early repairs and small losses affecting a portion of text and the terminal woodcut. Extensive early manuscript annotations to the first eight leaves, in places slightly shaved at the fore-edge. $2,500. * A rare and visually engaging early sixteenth-century Leipzig edition of Giovanni d'Andrea's celebrated arbores, the canonical diagrams by which the degrees of consanguinity and affinity were calculated and enforced. These schematic "trees," here rendered in bold woodcut (two full-page), formed one of the essential instruments of medieval jurisprudence, underpinning the regulation of marriage, inheritance, legitimacy, and the complex impediments arising from both blood and spiritual kinship. Giovanni d'Andrea, pre-eminent among the canonists of Bologna, stands at the head of the great commentators whose works shaped the practical administration of ecclesiastical law throughout Europe. His writings, disseminated widely in manuscript and eagerly taken up by the earliest presses, remained authoritative well into the early modern period. The present edition, augmented with commentary attributed to Henricus Greve and issued by the Leip.

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