Casus Longi Super Quinque Libros Decretalium. Strasbourg, 1484.
With Attractive Penwork and Rubrication Parmensis, Bernardus (Bottoni, Bernardo di) [d. 1263 or 1266]. [Casus Longi Super Quinque Libros Decretalium]. [Strasbourg: (Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg), i.e. Georg Husner, 1484]. [228] ff. Collation: [a-(et)8, A-E8, 6F-I8]. Final leaf blank. Folio (11-1/4" x 7-1/4"; 28.5 x 19 cm). Seventeenth or early eighteenth-century mottled sheep, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, edges of text block speckled red, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing, binding slightly cocked, some shallow scuffing to boards, small nick to spine, spine ends and corners bumped and lightly worn, rear hinge cracked, brief printed description tipped onto front free endpaper along with later inkstamp ("1484"). Text printed in 52-line gothic type in parallel columns. Initial spaces filled in with attractive red and blue ink capitals, first initial space completed in blue, yellow and green ink with elaborate red penwork, text elegantly rubricated in red and blue ink throughout. Light toning to interior, occasional light soiling, crack in text block after title page, which is starting to detach at head, index leaves loosening but secure, small hole to upper outside corner of first 4 leaves just touching text on second leaf without loss to legibility, faint stain to right margin of ff. [128]-[160], just touching text on f. [138] only. Two early owner inscriptions (dated 1629 and 1641) to title page, brief early annotations, affected by trimming, to recto of f. [34]. A handsome copy. $13,500. * 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 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, 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 Sch.
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