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BONIFACIUS VIII (Benedetto Gaetano, ca 1235-1303, Pope from 1294). Liber sextus Decretalium. Commentary of Johannes Andreae (ca 1270-1348). -- Johannes ANDREAE. Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis . Venice: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, Bartholomaeus de Blavis, de Alexandria and Mapheus de Paterbonis, 26th September 1482. Chancery 4 o (243 x 177 mm). Collation : A-R 8 S 1 0 . 146 leaves. Text with commentary surround, 66 lines of commentary. Gothic types 2:58 (text), 3:74 (commentary). First lines of books, capitals and paragraph marks printed in red. Lombard initials supplied in blue, foliation and book names at top and some capital strokes in red. 18-line initial B and portrait of Boniface on a2r, illuminated in gold and colors by a contemporary hand. Contemporary manuscript register on alv blank. (Some marginal worming in the first two quires, some occasional marginal spotting or light dustsoiling, a few corners torn away, otherwise very fine.) AUGSBURG BINDING: contemporary South-German calf over wooden boards by Jörg Schapf (Kyriss shop 63), covers panelled with quadruple fillets, outer panel of repeated rosette too, central panel with Rautengerank ( Schwenke-Sammlung 137), compartments filled with pomegranate tool, chased brass center- and corner-pieces with bosses, pair of chased brass fore-edge catchplates with cast inscription mau (old repairs along spine). Provenance : contemporary index on a1v -- Brixen, Tyrol, Library of the Reformed Franciscans near the St. Elizabeth convent of Poor Clares (inscription on a1r) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 5 June 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944. FINE COPY of Torresanus's printing of Boniface's continuation of the Georgian Decretals , issue with A5 reading "d'cretaliuz" in the text and "subsidi" in the commentary. Andreas Torresanus de Asola, whose highly successful career lasted well into the 16th century, was associated with Petrus de Plasiis and Bartholomaeus de Blavis for about six months in 1480-81, before forming a new partnership with de Blavis and Maphaeus de Paterbonis that lasted until 1486. From then on Torresanus continued as sole proprietor of the press and as a publisher employing other presses. Most of the gothic types used by Torresanus during the first decade of his activity, including the founts used here, were acquired from the Jenson/Colonia firm, for whom he had printed a few editions in 1481. With a fine provenance: Brixen (Bressanone) is a very ancient ecclesiastical center and counted several large libraries by the late Middle Ages. Not in the British Museum. BSB-Ink. B-715; GW 4871; H *3604; Harvard/Walsh 1878, 1879; Pr 4698; Goff B-995. RARE.