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GRATIANUS, the Canonist. Decretum Gratiani. Large woodcut of Gratianus on d10r; woodcut trees of consanguinity and affinity on 3P5v and 3P7r. [34] leaves, 3044, 220 columns, [3] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 342x229 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep with leather lettering piece, worn and shaken, spine chipped and cracked in a few places with white ink shelf number; minor worming through endpapers, title soiled and frayed with few holes in blank areas and old institutional stamp, scattered portions of the commentary and sidenotes inked out, dampstaining in upper outer corners in second half of volume. Paris: Guillaume Merlin, Guillaume Desboys, & Sébastien Nivelle, 1561
