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TEDESCHI, NICCOLÒ DEI, Archbishop. Commentaria in Quartum & Quintum Decretalium Librum. Part 1 (of 3), covering books 4 and 5; lacks the sections on the Clementine Epistles and the study of canon law. Printer's large woodcut device on title; woodcut portrait of the author on next leaf. 247, [1] leaves, including blank 2H8. Folio, old vellum with cloth ties, rebacked at an early date, shelf label on spine, covers warped; occasional toning or browning. Stamps on title of the Bibliotheca S. Petri ad Vincula and the Rev. L. Kuenzel. Venice: [Societas Aquilae Renovantis], 1578
From an edition of the commentary by a noted Sicilian canonist (1386-1445) on the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX. The publisher was a Venetian printing consortium specializing in law texts.
