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BUTRIO'S COMMENTARY ON POPE GREGORY IX'S DECRETALSDe Butrio, Antonio.Lectura...
BUTRIO'S COMMENTARY ON POPE GREGORY IX'S DECRETALS
De Butrio, Antonio.Lectura Super tertio et quarto decretalium.Lyon: Luxembourg de Gabiano, Hugues de La Porte and Jean Crespin, 1532.
Two volumes (out of five) bound together in folio (368 x 255), contemporary stiff vellum with handwritten title at raised bands spine, ff. 208, 63.
Elaborate xylographic title-pages in red and black, woodcut head-letters.
Text on two columns. Gothic type.
Fine early Lyon edition of Butrio's commentary on third and fourth book of Decretals.
The Decretales, or Decretals of Pope Gregory IX are an important source of medieval canon law, collected by the dominican St. Raymond of Peñafort under the order of the same Gregory IX; they are composed of five books, each one divided in several tituli (titles).
References: OCLC 603740010.