Explicit opus ... super constituciones p[ro]uinciales
Contributors: Pynson, Richard, -1530, printer; Hillyard, John, active 17th century, former owner; Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740, former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England); Zaehnsdorf (Firm)
Publisher: Emprinted by Richard Pynson.
Published: 1499
Place of publication: London]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Canon law; Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical law; Catholic Church. Province of Canterbury (England)
Other titles: Constituciones prouinciales; Constitutiones prouinciales ecclesie Anglicane; Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglicanae; 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: Title from STC (2nd ed.), taken from colophon on A7 recto: Explicit opus Magistri Wilhelmi Lyndwode super constituciones p[ro]uinciales: laus deo.

Colophon following tables, B3 verso: Explicit tabula constitucionum prouincialium. Emprinted by Richard Pynson.

Date of imprint from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: a-u⁸ A⁸ B⁴ [$1 (+a1) signed]

Pynson's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 3(b) ) within a border of type ornaments, on verso of final leaf.

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.) 17105

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T401

Duff 281

Goff L416

Hain 10359=H5655?

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 4016