Constitutiones. Speyer: Peter Drach, 21 September 1481.
A Scarce 1481 Speyer Imprint of the Clementinae With an Attractive 10-Line Gilt Initial, The Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue Locates Three Copies of this Imprint in North America Clement V [1305-1314], Pope. Andrea, Giovanni d' [c.1270-1348], Glosses. [Constitutiones (Cum Apparatu Joannis Andreae)]. [Speyer: Peter Drach, 21 September 1481]. [74] ff. Collation: A-I8(-A1), Kk4. Lacking blanks A1, Kk5-6. Double-column text with linear gloss. Folio (11-1/4" x 8-1/4"; 28.7 x 21 cm). Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue ic00724000 (3 copies in North America: Harvard, Library of Congress, Yale). Recent speckled paper boards, morocco lettering piece to spine, endpapers added. Text printed in red and black in gothic type, main text surrounded by 65-line linear gloss, opening initial "I" in pink on a gold ground with a green and pink border, gilt and ink penwork to left margin of first page, early owner inscription ("Ex libris Joan: Ramsenthaler/ plebani in Solern/ post nubila phoeby/ 1619") to foot of last page. Light toning, a few small worm holes to text block (more to final few leaves, no loss to legibility), faint dampstaining to upper margin in a few places, upper outside corners of first two leaves lacking with loss to text on first leaf, corners mended, missing text supplied by tipped-in facsimile, mended crack in text block after leaf I8, last two leaves re-hinged. $6,500. **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION.** * The Clementinae represents the final official piece of the Corpus Juris Canonici, the culmination of the attempts to codify the body of canon law that began in earnest during the Carolingian Empire. These efforts began to reach fruition in 1151 with the completion of Gratian's landmark Concordia Discordantium Canonum, or Decretum Gratiani. The Liber Quinque Decretalium of Gregory IX followed in 1234, followed by the Liber Sextus Decretalium of Boniface VIII in 1298. John XXII added the final official collection, the Liber Septimus Decretalium, better known as the Constitutiones Clementis V, or Clementinae, in 1317. Along with the Extravagantes of John XXII (1325), the Extravagantes Communes of other popes to 1484 and the Appendix Pauli Lance.
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