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Henricus de Segusio, genannt Hostiensis.

[Summa Hostiensis super Decretalibus, parts III and IV (of V parts) in one volume]. (On the last leaf:) Augsburg, Ludwig Hohenwang, without date (= 1477). Fol. Gothic type for the text, with Roman initials, 33 lines. 459 unnum. (without the last white leaf; without quire numbering; the first leaf white, 287 printed, unnumbered leaves, 1 white leaf, 170 printed, unnumbered leaves; without the last [460th] white leaf). With two woodcuts in the text. Good contemporary leather binding on three bands and over thick wooden boards, spine with latticework, the covers with fillets and individual stamps (Lamb of God, floral stamps), the page cut with two coats of arms painted in colors. (Rubbed; without the old brass clasps; torn capitals; loss in the cover of the back cover). ISTC ih00043000. GKW 12232. BMC II 359 (IB 6164). Goff H-43 (5 copies, 4 of which incomplete). Not in Schreiber. Second edition of Henricus de Segusio's "Summa", the first printed north of the Alps; previously published in Rome in 1473. Henry from Susa, who probably came from the Bartolomei family, is one of the most important canons of the 13th century. He was born around 1200 in Susa in Piedmont. After training as a lawyer at the University of Bologna, he taught at the Sorbonne and later in England. King Henry III used his services for a diplomatic mission to Pope Innocent IV. He later became Bishop of Sisteron (1244) and Archbishop of Embrun in the French Alps (1250); in 1262 he was elevated to Cardinal of Ostia and Velletri, hence his nickname "Hostiensis". - He wrote his "Summa super titulis Decretalium" between 1250 and 1261, i.e. during his time in Embrun. It earned him the honorary title "Monarcha juris, lumen lucidissimum Decretorum". The "Summa" was also known as the "Summa aurea". It remained popular until the 17th century due to its usefulness. In the 15th century, after the first edition in Rome and this second edition, five more editions were published: one in Strasbourg (1478-79) and four in Venice (1480-1498). The two woodcuts - they are among the earliest Augsburg book woodcuts - both show family trees, the first shows the "nameplates" mounted on a crowned female figure, the second is designed as a real tree with a pair of people meeting at its foot. Excellent impression from one of the rarest early Augsburg presses. Ludwig Hohenwang operated his printing press in Augsburg only in the years 1476-1478, whereby he did not date most of his few prints. - Very few complete copies with all five parts have survived, most known copies are partial copies like the present one. ISTC lists a total of only 57 copies, most of which are incomplete. I can only find three examples in the trade: a complete one in catalog 40 of Jacques Rosenthal in Munich (1904), an incomplete one (parts II-V) in the catalogs 209 (1927) and 220 (1929) of Gilhofer and Ranschburg in Vienna, and an incomplete example at Sotheby's (1929, part I only). Very wide-margined copy. Some slightly disturbing wormholes and worm marks in the upper margin almost through the entire volume, in the lower margin through the last approx. 50 leaves. A trace of moisture in the upper margin in two thirds of the volume. Despite some damage, an excellent copy, in its first binding and with beautiful cut painting.

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Henricus de Segusio, genannt Hostiensis.

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