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A CORNERSTONE OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAWGratianus. Decretum Gratiani emendatum et...
A CORNERSTONE OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAW
Gratianus. Decretum Gratiani emendatum et notationibus illustratum una cum glossis, Gregorii XIII Pont. Max iussu editum.
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Liber sextus decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VIII suae integritati una cum Clementinis & Extravagantibus, earumque glossis restitutus…
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Decretales D. Gregorii Papae IX suae integratati unà cum glossis restitutae, cum Gregorii XIII Pont. Max. & aliorum Principum. Romae, in Aedibus Populi Romani, 1584.
3 thick volumes in 4to (240x180 mm), 18th century half vellum, two labels with gilt-lettered titles at three raised bands spine, pp. [88], 1904, [28], two folding xylographic plates with genealogical trees; pp. [8], 592, [2], 243, [6], 262, [42], woodcut title-page at Constitutiones Clementinas, two other folding xylographic plates with genealogical trees; pp. [56], 1388, a xylographic plate representing the enthroned pope surrounded by the Fathers of the Church.
Woodcut devices at title-pages, woodcut head-letters.
Text in Latin on two columns, surrounded by the commentary and notes.
A good Roman edition of this cornerston of Medieval Canon Law, printed by the heirs of Aldus Manutius in their Roman Press.
Around 1140 in Bologna, the Camaldolese monk and canon law jurist Francis (or John) Gratian collected —under the significant title of Concordia discordantium canonum (afterwards better known as Decretum magistri Gratiani)—, papal decrees, councils’ canons, abstracts from the Church Fathers, from Roman law’s sources written before Justinianus, from the Lex romana Visigothorum and the Capitolari Carolingi. This compilation of documents was the first and main source of Canon law until the promulgation of the Codex iuris canonici, in 1917.
Provenance: Some not identified contemporary annotations.
References: OCLC 634747100.