tig00365000

Text-inc Id:

tig00365000

Bod-inc Id:

G-181

Headings:

Gratianus Decretum.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Gratianus: Decretum. [Pars I. Rubric.] ‘Incipit concordia discordantium canonum ac primum de iure nature et humane constitutionis. Rubrica.’ [Textus.] ‘[H]umanum genus duobus regitur naturali videlicet iure et moribus . . .’ See G‑178.
2. [a1r] Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: [Glossa ordinaria in Decretum.] ‘[Q]uoniam nouis superuenientibus causis nouis est remediis succurrendum . . . Humanum genus. Tractaturus Gratianus de iure canonico . . .’ See G‑178.
3. [n1r] Gratianus: [Pars II.] ‘[Q]uidam habens filium . . .’ See G‑178.
4. [R1r] [Tractatus de penitentia.] ‘[H]is breuiter decursis in quibus . . . [S]unt enim qui dicunt quamlibet criminis veniam . . .’ See G‑178.
5. [X7r] [Pars III. Tractatus de consecratione.] ‘[D]e ecclesiarum consecratione et missarum celebrationibus . . . [T]abernaculum . . .’ See G‑178.
6. [bb7r] [Colophon.]

Imprint:

Basel: Bernhard Richel, 10 June 1476. Folio.

Collation:

[a⁸ b–d¹⁰ e⁸ f g¹⁰ h i⁶ k l⁸ m⁶ n o¹⁰ p q⁸ r s⁶ t⁸ u¹⁰ x⁸ y⁶⁺¹ z A¹⁰ B C⁸ D E¹⁰ F⁸ G⁸⁺¹ H I¹⁰ K¹⁰ L¹⁰⁺¹ M¹⁰ N⁸ O⁶ P⁸ Q⁶ R–X¹⁰ Y⁸ Z⁶ aa bb⁸]. GW collates ‘ . . . Y Z aa bb⁸’. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00365000 GW 11356; H *7888; R 200 = 540; Goff G‑365; BMC III 737; Pr 7529 = 7485; BSB‑Ink G‑257; Sheppard 2370-1; Will 7 = 8 = 11. LCN: 14553080, 14553181

Copies:

1. G-181(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [bb8]. A single leaf has been inserted, datable to 1611 and containing: ‘Carmen Nuptiale. | Sponsus virque, hospes ducit, moderatur, adoptat, | Te, sedes, cunctos, foedere, uoce, domu. | Virgo, sponsa, puella, relinquit, honorat, adauget, | matrem, sponsum, et herum, limine, corde, manu.' Followed by: ‘Carmen Numerale. | OrtVs septeMbrI Vt bIs seX soL cVrrIt ab aXe, | nVbIt et eCCe graVI, beLLa pVeLLa VIro.' The two poems are contained in a circular wreath of pink flowers, leaves, and clouds. In the lower margin:`Georgius Aichecer(?) Hoffwerter Auz(?) haas(?) belz(?); Actus 12 Septembris | Anno ut in Carmine.’ Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled dark pigskin over wooden boards. Rebacked and re-covered with the original back strip and covers preserved. On both covers double fillets form a frame; within the frame the inner rectangle is divided by double fillets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments. Traces of two clasps on the upper cover, now lost. Paper label on the upper part of the spine: ‘Barth. Brix. opus super Gratiani Decretum. 139'. Title across the fore-edge. Size: 476 × 327 × 120 mm. Size of leaf: 462 × 315 mm. Early marginal annotations, extracting key words and correcting the text. The numbers of the ‘quaestiones' are added in black ink to the printed running headlines. Provenance: Au am Inn, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, BVM et S. Felicitas; inscription on [a1r]: ‘Monasterii B. M. V. et S. Felicitatis in AV. 1637'. Printed book-label dated 1778 with shelfmark ‘Miscellan. B. 1. 6'. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; shelfmark, ‘Inc. [ ] No. 139', and ‘Duplum 574' on slip pasted on the front pastedown; bookmark with ‘574'. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q inf. 1.5.
2. G-181(2) Second copy Wanting the woodcut initial on [a1r], the colophon, and the blank leaf [bb8]. Variants attributed by Pr to Wenssler. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboards covered with green cloth; probably rebound for Sotheby's. Size: 485 × 336 × 98 mm. Size of leaf: 475 × 325 mm. Provenance: Jamoigne, Luxembourg, Dominicans, S. Peter; on [a1r]: ‘Conv. Gemensis O. Fratrum Predicatorum'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2375. Purchased for £0. 19. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 12. SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 1.3.