Decretales: cum summarijs suis et textuum divisionibus. Ac etiam rubricarum continuationibus.

Folio: [4]-303 ff. (last blank missing, some minor defects, small marg. dampstain, some small marg. tears, one strengthened on f. [3], some marg. foxing, a few wormholes, some toning at the end).

Contemp. blind-stamped pigskin over wood, covers decorated with fillets, roll-stamps and lozenge fleurons, spine with raised bands, brass clasps, fore-edge titled (small def., some wormholes). Good wide-margined copy on strong paper.

Rare postincunable ed. of the Decretales, printed in 2,300 copies. Text, in gothic type, printed in black and red, rubricated and surrounded by the extensive commentaries of Hieronymus Clarius which includes notes by Ludovico Bolognini. The Venetian printer Battista Torti first published the Decretales in 1484 and reprinted them in 1491 (first containing the gloss of Hieronymus Clarius), 1494, 1496, 1500, 1501 and 1504.
Ref. EDIT16 14093. - Not in Adams, Machiels, STC Italian.
Prov. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss (Frankfurt am Main 1787-1854), German historian and freemason (bookpl.) whose library was sold in 1835 (lot 115 of the sale?). - Theological Seminary of Decatur, Georgia (stamp; "presented by Thomas Fleming esq.", bookpl.).