1572 DECRETALS of Pope Gregory IX antique 16th CENTURY CANON LAW

Gregory IX. 

Decretales Gregorii Noni Pontificis Maximi cum glossis ordinariis, argumentis, casibus litteralibus, & adnotationibus tam veterum quam recentium iurisconsultorum illustratae

Venice ; 1572

[72]-1151-1 pp.


Title in black and red.

With a figurative woodcut title vignette and two full-page woodcuts in the text. 


- Cf. Graesse III, 1525. Not in Adams. – 


Original vellum binding, spine with manuscript paper title label, worn

Venetian edition of the collection first published in Venice in 1475 by Nicolas Jenson.

Commissioned by Pope Gregory IX (c. 1170–1241), his chaplain Raimondo de Penaforte compiled this collection of decretals, which is considered the most important collection of laws in the Corpus iuris canonici.

Contains primarily papal constitutions, decretals, and conciliar decrees from various periods, but mostly from his reign. 

The title woodcut depicts Pope Gregory XIII in prayer. 

First 11 leaves stabbed with small marginal losses, damp stains, foxing

Size 7 1/4 by 10 inches

text in Latin
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Rare enriched edition with a vignette on the title depicting Pius V, two large engravings, numerous rubrications, decorative initials, and a text boxed within its commentary

This vast compilation of canon law, based on the decretals promulgated in the 13th century by Gregory IX and enriched, in this Venetian edition of 1572, by the commentaries, glosses and annotations of numerous medieval and Renaissance jurists

The work is part of the scholarly tradition of the Corpus Juris Canonici and represents one of the essential bases of the legal organization of the Catholic Church for several centuries -

Gregory IX's decretals had originally been compiled to gather and regulate the dispersed pontifical decisions that governed religious life, ecclesiastical institutions, and a large part of social relations in medieval Christian Europe -

This expanded edition offers not only the official text of the decretals but also a substantial critical apparatus consisting of ordinary glosses, practical case notes, argumentative summaries and observations written by renowned canonists
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