Author: Regnault, Francois, Gratinii
Title: Legal book Gratianus ca 1519-1526? | Canon law Decretum Aureum Domini Gratinani, Francois Regnault [s.l.], ca 1519-1526?.
Description: Rare book on canon law. Not complete in 16th century beautiful leather blindtooled binding (upper cover loose). Lacks titlepage. With beautiful decorated woodcut initials. Text on all pages in red and black ink. Interior starts with Prima Pars, Disctinctio i. Some wormholes on the pages and the binding, especially the spine. Pages printed in gothic language in two colomns. Decorated edges. Three parts and a tabula capitulorsi decreti. Thereafter Canones penitentiales en Gratiani vita, decretum abbreuiatum inoratione foluta, decretii abbreviatum in veribus and Materia. At the last page manuscript contemporary notes with the date 1578. Also contemporary manuscript notes at some pages. At the end of the third part tekst and printers vignet Francois Regnault and the date 1519.Gratian was a teacher of canon law in Bologna around 1140. He compiled his own textbook which he called Concordia discordantium canonum (Harmony from Discordant Canons). The work became know as the Decretum for short, thus signaling his intention to reconcile systematically contradictory statements of ecclesiastical law. He divided the rest of the Decretum into 36 causae (“cases”), each of which describes an imagined situation from which Gratian derived and discussed up to eleven legal questions. The first causa is devoted to simony, the sin of selling ecclesiastical office. Causae 2-8 concern legal procedure, while later causae treat ecclesiastical property and tithes, monastic law, oaths, just war, and heresy. The last quarter of his work, causae 27-36 makes up a substantial treatise on marriage law, into which Gratian inserted, as causa 33, quaestio 3, a long and innovative treatise on penance.Provenance: With piece of paper with printed text: ad bibliothecam archi-episcopalis presbyterorum & Alumnorum Collegii, which means for the library of the archiepiscopal institution of priests and studens of the college. Unknown which college this was.[NL] Het 'Decretum Gratiani', ook bekend als 'Concordia discordantium canonum', is een invloedrijke verzameling van het canonieke recht, samengesteld in de 12e eeuw door de jurist Gratianus. Dit werk vormde de basis voor het 'Corpus Juris Canonici' en was lange tijd een standaardreferentie binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.See the website: https://gratian.gratian.org/

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