GREGOIRE IX (pope); LE CONTE, Antoine (ed.). Epistolae decre - Lot 174

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GREGOIRE IX (pope); LE CONTE, Antoine (ed.). Epistolae decre - Lot 174
GREGOIRE IX (pope); LE CONTE, Antoine (ed.). Epistolae decretales summorum pontificum, A Gregorio nono pontifice maximo collectae. Quid hac editione praestitum sit, sequenti pagella indicatur, Parisiis, Apud Iacobum Puteanum Cum privilegio [Paris: ] ; Excudebat Christophorus Plantinus Antverpiae, XV. Kal. Octob. An. M.D.LXIX [Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1569]. In-8 (17.8 cm x 11.5 cm) of [32], 912 p.; Sig. *8-2*8 A8-Z8 a8-z8 2A8-2L8. Full brown calf, spine ornamented, cold framed fillets on the boards, gilt fleurons in the spine and in the centre of the boards (period binding formerly restored). Edition of the Decretals of Gregory IX printed by Plantin in Antwerp. These Decretals are one of the four works known collectively as the Corpus Juris Canonici. Important edition, by the humanist Antoine Le Conte. "The edition of the canonist Le Conte (Contius), a student of Cujas and a professor in Bourges, incorporated the text of Demochares and first appeared in 1570. Le Conte noted the apocryphal nature of many chapters in Gratian. (cf. Hartmann, Wilfried; Pennington, Kenneth. The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140-1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, 2008, pp. 49-50). An earlier edition than the Reformation-inspired Correctores Romani (1580-1582), which was in force until 1917. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, G1127.
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