Constitutiones prouinciales ecclesie Anglica[n]e
By: Per. d Wilhelmu[s] Lyndewode vtriusq[ue] iuris doctore[m] edite. Incipiunt felicter
Contributors: Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534?, printer; Forbes, John, of Boyndlie, active 19th century, former owner; Amherst, William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron, 1835-1909, former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England)
Publisher: Per Wynandum de Worde. Apud Westmonasteriu[m] in domo Caxston [sic].
Published: 1496
Place of publication: Westminster]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Canon law; Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical law; Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England)
Other titles: Constitutiones prouinciales ecclesie Anglicane; Constituciones prouinciales ecclesie Anglicane; 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: On title page, woodcut of a bishop.

Imprint from colophon, which begins "Opus presens fabricatum est. Et diligenter correctum per Wynandum de Worde ... Gloria deo."

Collation: A-X⁸ [$1 (+A1) signed]

William Caxton's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 2) on V8, X8 verso; Wynkyn de Worde was Caxton's successor.

In black letter type.

Initials.

Settings of signatures A-D vary; title has 'Constitutiones' or 'Constituciones'; D2 recto line 1 has: 'etia[m]' or 'ecia[m]'.

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

STC 17103

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T399

Duff 279

Hain 10361

Copinger 3709

Goff L414

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 3995