Margarita Decreti [bound with] Annotationes sive Reportationes.

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2 works in 1. Strasbourg, 1493 & Basel, c.1496. Incunable Editions of Two Important Early Reference Works for Scholars of the Decretals of Gregory IX [Polonus, Martinus (Martin of Opava) (d.1278)]. Margarita Decreti Seu Tabula Martiniana Decreti. [Strasbourg: Printer of the 'Casus Breves Decretalium' (Georg Husner?)], 1493. [106] ff. Final leaf blank. Collation: a8, b-q6, r8. Complete. 52-line text in parallel columns. [Bound with] [Polonus, Martinus (Martin of Opava)]. [Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521), Editor]. Annotatio[n]es Sive Reportatio[n]es Margaritaru[m] Omniu[m] Decretalium S[e]c[un]d[u]m Alphabeti Ordinem. [Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, c.19 June 1496]. [42] ff. Final leaf blank. Collation: a8, b-c6, d4, e-g6. Complete. 56-line text in parallel columns. Together two works in one volume. Folio (11" x 8-1/4"; 28 x 20.8 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, hand-lettered title label to front board, brass clasps and catches to fore-edges (one clasp present but detached, the leather of the other renewed), pastedowns renewed retaining portion of contemporary front pastedown, first quire washed, text block remounted. Minor worming to boards, some gatoring and faint creasing to spine, corners worn, free endpapers lacking. Moderate toning to interior, occasional minor worming, mostly to margins and without loss to legibility, light soiling and unobtrusive faint dampstaining in a few places. Early manuscript ownership inscription (of the Altomunster Monastery) and table of contents in red and black ink in an elegant hand to contemporary portion of front pastedown. An appealing volume. $18,000. * This volume contains two important early legal reference works for scholars of the Decretals of Gregory IX (or Liber Extra), one of the principal books of the Corpus Juris Canonici. The Margarita Decretalium, or "Pearls of the Decretals," is an index to the Decretals of Gregory IX. First printed in 1481, the Margarita was probably assembled during the late thirteenth century, some time before the appearance of the Liber Sextus in 1298. Its compilation is attributed to Martin of Opava, a Dominican friar who produced a number of influential educational works. The 1493 imprint in this volume is the tenth incunable edition of the text. …

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Margarita Decreti [bound with] Annotationes sive Reportationes.
Author
Polonus, Martinus
Publication year
1493
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2 works in 1. Strasbourg, 1493 & Basel, c.1496
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