Details

Subject(s)

• Canon law [Browse]

Editor

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521 [Browse]

Former owner

• Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854 [Browse]
• Balken, Edward Duff, 1874-1960 [Browse]

Notes

• Edited by Sebastian Brant.
• First 4 leaves unsigned. Sig.: A-X⁸, Y⁴, Z⁶.
• 37 lines and head-line. Haebler's type 88 (82 mm.)
• Woodcut on verso of first leaf. Woodcut initials of several forms. Printer's device on last leaf.
• Leaf 1a: Liber decretoru[m] siue panormia Iuonis accurato labore su[m]moq[ue] studio in vnum redacta continens. Leaf 2a-3b: preface of Sebastian Brant, dated "nonis marcijs." Leaf 4a-4b: Tabula (2 columns to the page) Leaf 5a: Incipit prologus pannormie Iuonis charnothensis episcopi ... Leaf 182a, line 17: Reuerendi peritissimiq[ue] iuris consulti Iuonis panormie charnotensis ep[iscop]i co[m]me[n]datissimi: de varia scriptura[rum] distinctione (diuina opitulante gr[atia]a) Expe[n]sis Mihaelis furter elaborata. Anno fructifere incarnationis. M.CCCC.XCIX. Mensis Martij die sexta. Feliciter expliciunt.
• First edition.
• ExI copy has ms. notes.

Binding note

ExI copy in 19th-century marbled boards with mottled leather spine and corners.

Provenance

• ExI copy is lot 272 in the 1838 Bangs & Cooley (NY) sale of Kloss's books.
• ExI copy has booklabel of Georgius Kloss, M.D., Francofurti ad Moenum, and bookplate Edward Duff Balken.

References

• Hain *9328
• Proctor 7739
• Goff I-223

Other title(s)

Liber decretorum.

OCLC

84914655

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