Incipiunt opera sup[er] constitutiones prouinciales et Othonis
Publisher: Apud humanissimum virum Winandum de Worde. In vico fletestrete sub signo solari.
Published: 1529
Place of publication: Londonii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Ecclesiastical law; Early works to 1800; Canon law; Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England)
Other titles: Incipiunt opera super constitutiones prouinciales et Othonis; Constitutiones Othonis; Constitutiones Octoboni; Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglicanae.
Description: Part 1: 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.

Part 2: the canons of the plenary councils of the British Isles, held in 1237 and 1268 with papal legates presiding, known also as the Constitutions of Otho and Othobon. Sometimes titled Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane (cf. STC 17108), the text was not written by Lyndwood, but was often bound with earlier editions of his Constitutiones provinciales.
Notes: In 2 parts.

Woodcut of a bishop on title page.

Second part has running titles: Constitutiones Othonis and Constitutiones Octoboni.

Imprint from colophon.

Collation: A-M⁸ [$4 (-AG3) signed; misprinting C1-4 as E1-4; E1-4 as C1-C4]

Printer's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 46b) with William Caxton's mark and initials and "wynkyn de worde" below it, on verso of final leaf. Wynkyn de Worde was Caxton's successor.

In black letter type.

Initials.

This and the other English printed octavo editions have Lyndwood's text only, not his commentary. --Cf. STC (2nd ed.), no. 17102.

STC (2nd ed.) 17112

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T409

Received Aug. 18, 1920.

Ex libris William Henry Miller.

Bound in 19th century brown morocco, both covers decorated in gold with the arms of William Henry Miller; inside edges decorated with fillets and corner ornaments, all edges gilt. Signed W. Pratt.