| Highlights
of the Exhibition PETER SCHOEFFER : PRINTER OF MAINZ at Bridwell Library 8 September - 8 December 2003 |
17. MORE CANON LAW
BONIFACIUS VIII, Pont. Max. (c. 1234-1303). Liber sextus decretalium.
Commentary by Johannes Andreae (d. 1348). Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 5
April 1473.
This is Schoeffer’s third printing of the
Liber sextus decretalium,
following his editions of 1465 and 1470. In Bridwell Library’s extremely
well-preserved copy, an exquisitely illuminated initial B appears in the
space provided on the first leaf. Facing this, on an added
fifteenth-century flyleaf, a contemporary owner has added his own
manuscript index. The untrimmed bottom edge of the book is still
inscribed in large gothic letters “Sextus decretaliu[m].”
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15. Justinian 1477 |
16. Clement V 1471 18. Gregory IX 1473 |
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