Casus Longi Super Quinque Libros Decretalium. Strasbourg, 1484.
An Appealing 1484 Imprint of an Important Canon Law Commentary Parmensis, Bernardus (Bottoni, Bernardo di) [d. 1223 or 1266]. [Casus Longi Super Quinque Libros Decretalium]. [Strasbourg: (Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg), i.e. Georg Husner, 1484]. [227] ff. Collation: [a-(et)8, A-E8, 6F-I8]. Lacking final blank, text complete. Folio (10-3/4" x 7-3/4"; 27 x 19.5 cm). Near-contemporary calf, raised bands, black-stamped fillets and hand-lettered paper label to spine, edges of text block speckled red. Rubbing, minor worming and some shallow scuffing, light wear to extremities, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and worn, front hinge starting. Text printed in 52-line gothic type in parallel columns. Initial spaces filled in with attractive red ink capitals on 8 pp., elegant rubrication in red ink to 30 pp. Very light toning to interior, minor worming recurring throughout text block but without loss to legibility, occasional faint dampstaining to margins of last third of text block, a few partial cracks to text block, all leaves secure. Early (illegible) owner signature to title page, which has a small clean tear repaired on the recto with no loss to legibility on verso. An appealing copy. $12,000. * First edition by Husner. This volume contains an important commentary on the Liber Quinque Decretalium of Gregory IX (1234), part of the Corpus Juris Canonici. Better known as Bernardus Parmensis, from his birthplace, Parma, Botono was a notable canonist. He studied at the University of Bologna, joined its faculty and later became the university's chancellor. Little biographical information is known about Georg Husner [fl.1473-fl.1498], a former goldsmith who became an important figure in early Strasbourg printing. A medium-scale printer who probably worked on more than one press, he rarely signed his own name to his work, but the press known as "the Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg" is broadly accepted as his (Chrisman). The Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue locates 4 copies of this imprint in North America (Harvard Law School, Columbia University, Huntington Library, Library of Congress). Chrisman, Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599 9. Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue ib00457000.
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