[GRÉGOIRE IX]

Decretalium copiosum argumentum. Divisiones glosarum ex Johanis andree novella diligenter deprompte: hic diligenter annotantur.

Lyon, François Fradin, 26 janvier 1515.

Large folio (410 x 315 mm), (10) ff, 423 folios, (4) ff, 17 folios, (2) ff, brown basane, ornate spine, speckled edges ; numerous old restorations to binding, small tears with small paper losses to title, small marginal wetnesses, small wormholes (18th-century binding).

Important Lyon edition of Gregory IX's “Decretals”, with François Fradin's mark on the title, a mid-page woodcut depicting Pope Gregory IX receiving a copy of the work from the compilers, and two family trees, one illustrated.

Long handwritten note to title dated 1596, with 6 copiously annotated pages and a few annotations in the text (a little trimmed by the binder).

Papal decrees were the subject of numerous compilations. This one, commissioned by Gregory IX from the Dominican Raymond de Peñafort, was the first canonical codification to be officially promulgated, in 1234. The Corpus juris canonici thus formed remained the basis of canon law until the Code of 1917. The text of the law is framed by its commentary (gloss).

Brunet, II, 1731 (for incunabula editions).

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