Prouinciale, seu co[n]stitutiones Anglie : cu[m] summarijs, at[que] iustis annotationibus: politissimis characteribus: summaq[ue] accuratio[n]e rursum reuise, atq[ue] impresse.

Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglicanae.
Constitutiones.

[Paris] : [Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for William Bretton.] Venales habentur Londo⁻n. apud bibliopolas in Cimiterio sancti Pauli: in signo sanctissime Trinitatis et sancte Anne matris marie [i.e. H. Jacobi and J. Pelgrim, 1505 (23 March) [i.e. 1506]]

[18], Cv, cxvj-Clxxxix, [1]; [12], lxxvi [i.e. 77], [1] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; (fol.)

Canon law of the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury as collected and abridged in 1433 by William Lyndwood, with his explanatory gloss. Regarded by some authorities as law of the Church of England.
Title from a1r.
Printed in red and black.
Colophon to the first part, [et]9v, reads "Explicit preclarum opus wilhelmi Lyndewode eruditissimi viri, super constitutiones prouinciales Anglie: summa cura atq[ue] diligentia wolffgangi Hopylij reuisum, eme[n]datu[m], atq[ue] in inclita Parisioru[m] Academia. impressum: vna cum annotationibus debitis: cu[m]q[ue] summarijs suis locis prepositis. Impe[n]sis vero et sumptibus honesti mercatoris London̄. wilhelmi Bretton̄. Anno salutis nostre millesimo quinge[n]tesimo quinto. xxiij. Martij". Introduction to part 1 dated idus Mayas 1506; introduction to part 2 dated idus Septembris 1506.
The first leaf bears verses beginning: Moribus ingenuis: doctrina: opibusq[ue] potentes.
"Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Anglicane: cu[m] subtilissima interpretatione d[omi]ni Iohannis de Athon ..", the canons of the plenary councils of the British Isles held in 1237 and 1268, has separate divisional title, foliation, and register. It is edited by Josse Badius, whose name appears on [cross]1v. The text proper has separate title page: Legatine seu constitutiones legitime ...
Includes indexes.
Leaf 77 (second count) misnumbered lxxvj.
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-C⁶ a-h⁸ i⁶ k⁸ l⁶ m⁸ n⁶ o⁸ p⁶ q⁸ r⁶ s⁸ t⁶ v⁸ x⁶ y-z⁸ [et]¹⁰; [maltese cross]-2[maltese cross]⁶ ²A-I⁸ K⁶.
Anr. ed. of 17107 and 17108 together -- STC.

Rpm 12/02/96
Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17109
Beale, T405
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S122285

France.

STC 17109 copy 1

Manuscript notes, including markings, manicules, and copy of "An admonition to such as intend to marry" by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury dated 1571 at end of text (see STC 19286 for print version). Cropped, affecting manuscript notes. Blind tooled calf binding. Provenance: c16 inscriptions on t.p. (some crossed out in ink, affecting legibility), including manuscript mark of ownership of Robert Jones; bookplate of the Huth library; collated by Max Privett at Quaritch; Harmsworth copy

HH138/31

STC 17109 copy 2

Lacking blank. Manuscript notes and markings, including trefoils and underscoring. Cropped, affecting manuscript marginal notes. Provenance: c16 and c17 inscriptions on t.p., some effaced, including "Rolande a⁰ 1560" and "Tho: [Thomas] Gwynne"; bought by Folger from Thomas Thorp, July 1926