Title: Sexti Libri Materia Cum Capitolorum Numero; Bound With; Clementinarum Materia Cum capitulorum et titulorum numero; Bound With; Extrauagantes xx Johanis xxii; Bound With; Extrauagantes Communes, 1510/1511(?) Sammelband of Early Law Works, All Printed by Thielmann Kerver
Author: Pope Boniface VIII; Girolamo Chiari; Pope Clement V; Domenico da San Gimignano
Publisher: Paris, Thielmann Kerver; París, Jean Petit
Condition: Fair
An early 16th century edition of Pope Boniface VIII’s Decretals, titled the Sixth Book of Decrees, or Liber Sextus Decretalium, as it builds on the five-volume Decretals of Gregory IX, this edition printed by Thielmann Kerver. The collection was compiled under order of Boniface VIII by Guillaume de Mandagot, Bishop of Embrun, Berenger Fredoli, Bishop of Beziers, and Ricardo Petroni, of Siena, vice-chancellor of the pope. Just like the Decretals of Gregory IX, the Liber Sextus is also comprised of five books, but also adds an additional 86 rules of law. Additionally bound are three other texts relating to the main work, all printed by Kerver.
The text is printed throughout in red and black, in a gothic font. There are four full page woodcuts, two of which display the Arbor Consanguinitatis (a tree-like table designed to show a family’s genealogy), and the Arbor Affinitatis (a matrix of a person's in-laws and step-children). The other two display the author presenting his work to the Pope, bordered with woodcut designs. There are numerous woodcut initials throughout.
While there is repeated early notation marking these imprints as 1511 editions, the colophons have proven a bit difficult for myself to properly identify my date, with the collation corresponding to the 1510, and even the 1517 editions as well.
Four books bound into one vellum volume in quarto, (4)+CCLXXIIII+(12), CX+(5), LXIIII+(3), LX+(3) leaves
This volume is in fair shape, with heavy rubbing and wear to the binding, with vellum peeling and lacking heavily to the spine, and the hinges split, mostly to the rear, though the cords are holding firm. The first three leaves are loose, with the fourth leaf shaken, but holding. The last gathering of four leaves are also loose. There is some foxing throughout, heavier to several pages.