(1537). CORPUS JURIS CANONICI. - Lot 178

(1537). CORPUS JURIS CANONICI. Lyon, François Fradin for Hugues de La Porte, 1537. 3 parts of 74-[4]-39-[1]-38-[4] leaves, half brown basane (modern binding). Superb edition printed in Gothic type, in red and black in two columns, with the gloss surrounding the text composed in larger type. This collection of canon rights contains the Clementines of Clement V, the Extravagantes of John XXII and the Extravagantes communes, and each part, with separate pagination, begins with a special title bearing Fradin's very fine mark. In the Clementines, a large woodcut shows the author offering his book to Boniface VIII, and on the verso of the title of the second part, the same woodcut is used for the presentation to Clement V. A full-page woodcut for the tree of consanguinity. The first part (Decretals) has not been bound into the copy. The last title is soiled, some leaves restored, rings on the last and first leaves (Baudrier VII, 307-308) (USTC, 200194).