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(INCUNABULA) Boniface VIII, Pope. SEXTUS DECRETALIUM Cum Certis Additionibus Johannis Andree. [Edited by Sebastian Brandt]. Basel: Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach. Dec 1, 1500. 4to. 2 parts in 1 (Part 2 titled "Constitutiones Clementinarum"). 288 leaves, complete. Printed in black & red throughout. Large woodcut of Sebastian Brandt on Aa6. A few text woodcut diagrams ("Arbor Affinitatis," etc.). Modern vellum, spine with hand lettered title. Early ownership inscription on title, and text with some early marginal annotations. Some old light soiling at bottom inner margin of about the first 100 leaves, but overall a crisp and clean copy of a beautifully printed edition.	      $7,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Boniface VIII (1235-1303; Pope 1294-1303) ordered a new compilation of pontifical decisions (Decretals) forming a code of the ecclesiastical laws then in force. It appeared in 1298, and modified and expanded on the Decretals of Gregory IX. The "Sextus Decretalium" of Boniface VIII was first printed in 1465 by Fust and Schoeffer. The ISTC records 58 editions printed prior to 1501. Our edition, printed by two of the great names, Froben and Amerbach, associated with early printing in Basel, is the last 15th century edition. Sebastian Brandt, the editor of this edition, was the author of the famous "Ship of Fools." He received his Doctor of Canon and Civil Law in 1489. The first edition of the "Sextus Decretalium" edited by Brandt was 1494. Hain 3626. Goff B1015. BMC III p. 793. ISTC ib01015000 (only 4 copies recorded in the United States).


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