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[INCUNABULUM]. [MARTINUS POLONUS (Martin of TROPPAU, known a…
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[INCUNABULUM]. [MARTINUS POLONUS (Martin of TROPPAU, known a…
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[INCUNABULUM]. [MARTINUS POLONUS (Martin of TROPPAU, known as Martin of Opava)]
[Margarita Decreti, seu Tabula Martiniana].
[Strasbourg, printer of the *Casus breves Decretalium*, 1493].
Large 8vo in small folio format (leaf 20 x 28 cm and 13.7 x 20.8 cm column width), (97) ff., signed a2-b-q6-r2, Gothic type in two columns of 52 lines. Havana-coloured calfskin on contemporary wooden boards, ribbed spine (missing ff. a(1) (half-title) and r3–7 (including colophon) and 1f. blank; the front cover of the binding is missing; a(8) is detached and the first quire is slightly unbound; minor worm damage, sometimes very fine, on the margins or a few discreet holes in the text without significant loss).
An incunabulum composed by the Dominican Martin of Troppau (1279), chaplain and penitentiary to the Pope; a 13th-century chronicler, he died as Archbishop of Gniezno (Gnesen) in Poland.
A decorated copy, featuring on the first page of the text a large painted initial (the letter I) in shades of blue on a background of liquid gold, with small motifs stamped onto the gold.
Accompanied by a large, polychrome floral illumination running the length of the page, featuring fruit, scrolls and foliage, extending along the lower margin of the folio.
The copy is rubricated in red at each new capital letter of the Table, with calligraphic letters.
An alphabetical index of canon law designed to facilitate consultation of the Decretum Gratiani, this analytical table, the Tabula Martiniana, constitutes an important reference tool for medieval canonists and jurists.
The absence of quire j does not constitute a gap; the text continues seamlessly from quire i to quire k, in accordance with the digitised copy from the Fondo Antigo at the University of Seville.
A single copy held at the CCFr (Le Mans).
Whilst editions can be found on WorldCat, some have an uncertain date and a different place of printing (Nuremberg), at least for those that appear to have the same colophon.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
HC, 10847. Polain, 2626. Pell-Pol, 7623. ISTC, im00327000.
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