[Illustrated post-incunabulum]. GRATIEN. Decretum Gratiani. - Lot 71

[Illustrated post-incunabulum]. GRATIEN. Decretum Gratiani. Cum glossis Ioannis Theutonici et annotationibus prepositi alberitatensis: & annotationibus Bartholomei Brixiensis... Venice, Giunta, [at colophon] Lucas Antonius de Giu[n]ta Floren[n]tinus Venetiis impressit], 1514. Very large in-4, [30 (of 38)], f. XVI-CCCCCCLII, [74 (of 76)] f., figs, modest 19th c. half calf (spine detached, boards worn; title browned, first 2 f. gnawed in margin, rare worm spots not serious, small sporadic wetness, tear without loss in margin f.3B1, 2 vignettes formerly smudged f.243 and 407; 3 quires lacking: 2, A and B; beginning of vol. bound out of order; 2 f. missing at end). Beautiful Venetian edition of this founding compendium of medieval canon law. Composed of 2 columns with the text in the center and the gloss around it, it is printed entirely in red and black. It is illustrated with woodcuts: numerous vignettes in the text, two full-page figures (Arbor consanguinitatis and Arbor affinitatis), and a splendid full-page composition showing the arrest of Christ, signed with a monogram (discreet wormhole lower left). Sign. 1 (8), 3 (8), D-G 8, C 8, 4 (8), 5 (6), H-Z 8, 2A-2Z 8, 3A-3Z 8, 4A-4L 8, 4M 12, 4N-4T 8, 4V11 (of 12), [cross] 2-8. Some passages formerly crossed out in ink, one of which causes a hole on f.4H6. (USTC 800252).