Prouinciale seu constitutiones Anglie cum summariis atq[ue] iustis annotationibus : honestis charcteribus
Subtitle: summaq[ue] accuratione rursum impresse
Publisher: Andree Bocard ... In inclyta Parisiana Academia.
Published: 1501
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Canon law; Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical law; Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England)
Other titles: Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie; Prouincialis Guillermi Lyndewode; Provincialis Guillermi Lyndewode; Prouincialis Wilhelmi Lyndewode; Provincialis Wilhelmi Lyndewode; Moribus ingenuis doctrina ...
Work titles: Constitutiones provinciales Ecclesiae Anglicanae
Description: A compilation in five books of the synodal constitutions of the province of Canterbury, from the time of archbishops Stephen Langton (d. 1228) to Henry Chichele (1362?-1443), compiled by Lyndwood and with his gloss commentaries.. The work was completed in 1433 and first printed at Oxford in 1483. Regarded by some authorities as law of the Church of England.
Notes: Edited by Josse Badius (Jodocus Badius Ascensius).

Running titles: Proui[n]cialis Guillermi Lyndewode ... ; Proui[n]cialis Wilhelmi Lyndewode.

Index has title: Moribus ingenuis: doctrina ...

Imprint from colophon.

Collation: a⁸ b⁶ c-g⁸ h⁶ i-q⁸ r⁶ s-z⁸ [et]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-B⁶ C⁸ [$4 (+b4) signed]

Errors in foliation: xx, xlix and lxvi printed xxi, li and lxv.

In black letter type.

Printed in red and black.

Initials, some historiated.

Side notes.

Though no English bookseller is mentioned in the imprint of this (STC 17107) and STC 17108, both items were clearly intended for sale in England. --Cf. STC (2nd ed.)

ESTC S103845

STC (2nd ed.) 17107

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T403

Adams, L2115

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 11 Feb. 1913, no. 148)

With remains of edge-mark. With a few marginal annotations and, on back flyleaf, 6 lines in a 16th century hand. Armorial bookplate of Viscount Gage.

With shelf marks(?) on front pastedown and title page. Prices(?) on title page and head of leaf ix. On the front flyleaf, in an 18th century hand, is an account of Lyndwood's life and work, written in Latin. The author cites the Hanover edition (1605) of Matthew Parker's De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae and William Cave's Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum historia literaria (1st pub. 1688-1698). With a few marginal annotations, in a 16th century hand, and in the hand of the 18th century owner. Bookplate of George Dunn, who purchased it in July 1896.

Bound in contemporary calf, decorated in blind with fillets and diamond-shaped dragon stamp (Oldham, Blind-stamped, Plate XV, no. 146), identified by Oldham as that used by an an Oxford binder active from 1486-1506. Based on the state of the stamp, the binding dates from after 1505; rebacked.

Bound in old (17th century?) calf decorated in blind with fillets, rebacked.