[Prouinciale, seu, Co[n]stitutiones Anglie: cu[m] summarijs atq[ue] iustis annotationibus: politissimis characteribus summaq[ue] accuratio[n]e rursum reuise atq[ue] impresse ...].

William Lyndwood

[Prouinciale, seu, Co[n]stitutiones Anglie: cu[m] summarijs atq[ue] iustis annotationibus: politissimis characteribus summaq[ue] accuratio[n]e rursum reuise atq[ue] impresse ...].

1505

Paris. London.

Summa cura atq[ue] diligentia Wolffgangi Hopylij reuisum, eme[n]datu[m], atq[ue] in inclita Parisioru[m] Academia impressum ; Impe[n]sis vero et sumptibus honesti mercatoris London[iensis?] Wilhelmi Bretton[i], anno salutis nostrae [1505], xxiii Martij.

Latin

Josse Badius

John Acton

Cardinal Otho

Pope Adrian V

Catholic Church. Legatine Council (1237 : London, England).

Catholic Church. Legatine Council (1268 : London, England).

Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England)

IMPRINT:
[Paris] : Summa cura atq[ue] diligentia Wolffgangi Hopylij reuisum, eme[n]datu[m], atq[ue] in inclita Parisioru[m] Academia impressum ; London : Impe[n]sis vero et sumptibus honesti mercatoris London[iensis?] Wilhelmi Bretton[i], anno salutis nostrae [1505], xxiii Martij.

[36] p., clxxxix [i.e. clxxix] leaves [i.e. 358 p.], [1] leaf, [24] p., lxxvi [i.e. lxxvii] leaves [i.e. 154 p.], [1] leaf : ill. ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Edited by Josse Badius, whose introduction is dated 1506 (leaf A1v).

Numbers cvi-cxv omitted in foliation (pt. 1); lxxvii misnumbered lxxvi (pt. 2).

Printed in red and black.

Pt. 2 consists of the Constitutiones of Cardinals Otho and Othobonus (Pope Adrian V).

Pt. 2 has t.p.: Legatine seu constitutiones legitime cu[m] summarijs atq[ue] iustis annotationibus ; and half-title: Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Anglicane, cu[m] subtilissima interpretatione d[omi]ni Johannis de Athon.

CRRS copy lacks leaf [lxxvii] and last leaf of pt. 2; replaced with a handwritten copy signed: Wm. Marriott.

CRRS copy lacks leaves i-viii of pt. 1; replaced with a copy of leaves [i]-iii, vi-viii of pt. 2.

ILLUSTRATIONS:
Several ornamented woodcut initials and other illustrations found throughout.

BINDING:
In grey box with book label Lyndwood Provinciale & Constitutiones. Remains of front board, calf over pasteboard, with triple fillets in blind. Remnants of early blue cloth ties and early printed leaf in German used as pastedown. Spine has five compartments, four raised bands with rules in blind. Later book label has title, black on red, in compartment two. Red speckled edges.

PROVENANCE:
1. CRRS bookplate on the inner front board.
2. CRRS stamp on final printed leaf.
3. Early inscription reads Transcripta? ... William Marriott (on final leaf).
4. Price of £18 in pencil on inner front board.

MARGINALIA:
Heavy printed marginalia.
Several contemporary marginal ms. notes throughout in two different inks (ie. m2v-m4r, n1v-n6r, o3v-o4r, s8r etc); one facsimilie of missing page in ms. and two pages of notes in Latin at the back of the book with early autograph signature of William Marriott.

CONDITION:
Binding: front calf covered board with triple blind fillet frame is loose. Edges worn and pasteboard showing. Back board wanting. Spine is heavily damaged and wanting in compartments one and six.
Leaves: Some leaves are wanting, others torn. Others are worn, stained, and wormed.

CITATION/REFERENCE:
STC 17109
STC records 10+ copies. ESTC records 46 copies.

https://crrs.ca/rare_books/crrs-rare-book-retrieval-requests/

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