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Gratianus-Johannes Teutonicus and
Bartholumaeus Brixienois, comm f^0

See
#482 folio 331
#136
#248
#421
#542

Decratum.
Venice: Baptista de Tortus, 8 Jan. 1485
Ref: GW 11369 H. 7902 BMC V 324 IGI 4404
Copy: Brit. Lib, Muncher BSB, Stockholm RL

11 x 16 5/8" 82-3 lines of comm. 2 col. red lombard
initials and red paragraph marks
De peni D.I. 303

Types 130 G (PS) headlines from 88^a Medium heading type
(p2) 78 R (few capitals only) earlier headlines. Comm. type use 1481-86 1490
92 G^a (p^3) raw text type. In use in 1484, 5, 87-1490
81 G^a [Capital spaces and red printed Lombards.
law gloss type. Used 1484-85
114 R text type. In use 1485-6.

The text, the 1st compilation of canon law
by the celebrated Benedictine, Gratianus
(12th C.) The commentary by the canonist
Bartholomew of Brescia (c. 1174-1250)
Gratiam's great work was a collection of nearly
4000 patristic texts, concilian decres, and Papal
pronouncements touching all fields of Church
discipline and presented in a framework designed to
resolve harmoniously all the contradictions and
inconsistencies of his sources. It soon law lectured
became the basic text upon which all masters of [?canph?]