GRATIEN

New edition prepared by Pierre Baquelier (this edition had already appeared in 1517 and 1519). Two folding plates of genealogical trees illustrating the laws of consanguinity. Large title vignette depicting Gratian teaching the clergy. Printer’s device under the colophon fo.ccccxxii. Printed in Gothic type in two columns (52 lines). Edition for which the privilege was shared with Jean Petit. Title page printed in red and black. Copy fully rubricated in red, with titles also in red. Decorated woodcut initials. The appendices include a biography of Gratian; the Decretum abbreviatum in oratione soluta by Johannes Andreae, as well as the text of the plates: Declaratio arboris consanguinitatis, printed on the verso of the plates and on six leaves.
Colophon: "excussum in officina Johannis Prenel. Anno salutis humane millesimo quinqentesimo vigesimo sexto. Mensis Maij."
Mid-19th-century half-shagreen binding with corners. Spine with raised bands in compartments. Gilt title and date. A brown waterstain in the right margin of the last ten leaves, affecting only a few millimetres; a brown spot in the upper margin of the final twenty leaves. Browning also along the right margin of the title page, extending only a few millimetres; a few leaves show a brown spot in the upper margin. Generally quite fresh, though some leaves are browned, notably in the tables; some leaves also trimmed in the lower margin. A tear across half the page on leaf focccxcix. Numerous pagination errors.