Margarita Decreti [bound with] Annotationes sive Reportationes..

by Polonus, Martinus

$18,000 · Offered by Biblio

1493. 2 works in 1. Strasbourg, 1493 & Basel, c.1496. 2 works in 1. Strasbourg, 1493 & Basel, c.1496. Incunable Editions of Two Important Early Reference Works for Scholars of the Decretals of Gregory IX [Polonus, Martinus (Martin of Opava) (d.1278)]. Margarita Decreti Seu Tabula Martiniana Decreti. [Strasbourg: Printer of the 'Casus Breves Decretalium' (Georg Husner?)], 1493. [106] ff. Final leaf blank. Collation: a8, b-q6, r8. Complete. 52-line text in parallel columns. [Bound with] [Polonus, Martinus (Martin of Opava)]. [Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521), Editor]. Annotatio[n]es Sive Reportatio[n]es Margaritaru[m] Omniu[m] Decretalium S[e]c[un]d[u]m Alphabeti Ordinem. [Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, c.19 June 1496]. [42] ff. Final leaf blank. Collation: a8, b-c6, d4, e-g6. Complete. 56-line text in parallel columns. Together two works in one volume. Folio (11" x 8-1/4"; 28 x 20.8 cm). Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, hand-lettered title label to front board, brass clasps and catches to fore-edges (one clasp present but detached, the leather of the other renewed), pastedowns renewed retaining portion of contemporary front pastedown, first quire washed, text block remounted. Minor worming to boards, some gatoring and faint creasing to spine, corners worn, free endpapers lacking. Moderate toning to interior, occasional minor worming, mostly to margins and without loss to legibility, light soiling and unobtrusive faint dampstaining in a few places. Early manuscript owner

• Year: 1493
• Binding: unknown

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