Gratian the Canonist; Johannes Teutonicus

Decretum Gratiani: Novissime Post Ceteras Oes Impressiones: Summa

      1528. Gratian, the Canonist [c. 1090-c. 1160] Johannes Teutonicus (or Zeneka) [d.1253], Glossator. Bartolomeo da Brescia [d.1258], Glossator. Decretum Gratiani: Novissime Post Ceteras Oes Impressiones: Summa Adhibita Cura Impressum: Una cu Glossis Joa. Theutonici & Bartho. Brixie. Additis Etia Divisionibus Achidiaconi, Casibusq Benedicti, Concordantiis Item ad Bibliam, Tabula Insuper Marginalium Glossularu: Tam Canonum q Conciliorum. Margarita Quoq Decreti: Longe Diligetius Emendata, Flosculis Preterea Totius Decreti. Additione Insuper Apposita in Margine Litera quo Parviusculi Characteres Lineis Interiecti: Citius Oculis Legentiu Sese Offerent. Tabulam Etia Ludovici Bolognini Opposuimus: Que in Aliis Perpera Fuerat Tabulis Decretalium Inserta. [Venice: Octaviani Scoti, 1528]. [xcviii] pp., 639 fols., [136] pp. Main text surrounded by linear gloss. Full-page woodcut tables of descents (affinity) and consanguinity. Quarto (6-1/2" x 9"). Contemporary vellum, raised bands to spine, later endpapers and endleaves. Some discolorations and spotting to boards, minor wear to corners. Title and text printed in red and black. Woodcut border to title page, woodcut illustrative headpieces and decorated initials, large woodcut printer device in red to verso of leaf following fol. 639. Light foxing, faint dampstaining to title page and a few other prices, flaw to foot of index leaf with negligible loss to text. Early signature to head of title page, occasional early censorship in ink of the gloss, a few annotations to index. A handsome copy. * The Concordia Discordantia Canonum, or as it is better known, the Decretum Gratiani, is the cornerstone of modern canon law. The first work of its kind, it was compiled by Gratian, a Camaldolese monk, around 1140. Using the latest scholastic and juristic techniques from Bologna, he attempted to harmonize these disparate texts. Like the Corpus Juris Civilis in the study of the civil law, it became the basic text for the study of canon for many centuries. It is divided into three parts. The first contains 101 distinctiones dealing with sources and topics. The second contains 36 causae, which are subdivided into many quaestiones. Take