Gratianus, Decretorum collectanea, Paris, 1547, 4 volumes, contemporary Parisian dark brown calf gilt, Michael Folckamer copy

GRATIANUS. Decretorum collectanea ex varia copiosaque scriptorum ecclesiasticorum, tum vetustate, cum eruditione vitaeque sanctimonia maxime insignium, receptorum videlicet, Pontificum item Romanorum, Conciliorum oecumenicorum denique supellectile per DN. Gratianum in gratiam rei ecclesiasticae concinnata, ac suis classibus distincta. Paris: Charlotte Guillard and Guillaume Des Bois, 1547 [bound with:]

GREGORIUS IX. Decretales epistolae Gregorii noni Pontificis maximi, quas summa fide & accurata diligentia: iam recens ad veterem codicum fidem repurgavimus et contulimus. Cum additionibus Doctiss. virorum longe probatissimis et utilissimis. Paris: Charlotte Guillard, 1541

BONIFACIUS VIII. Sextus decretalium liber, per Bonifacium octavum pontificem in concilio Lugdunensi aeditus: iam recens ex antiquissimis exemplaribus adamussim castigatus. Paris: Charlotte Guillard, 1541

A four-volume set of texts from the Corpus iuris canonici, in a binding named for the owner, Michael Volckamer. Another set of legal texts printed in Paris in 1551 has an inscription "Michael Folckhamer" dated Bourges, 1552 (Grolier Club, online exhibition, French book arts from the collections of the Grolier Club, cat. no. 3.10)

3 works bound in 4 volumes, 8vo (170 x 105 mm). 42 lines plus headline. (1) Collation: aa-nn⁸ a-z⁸ A-M⁸ N⁴; O-Z⁸ Aa-Zz⁸ AA-O⁸ PP⁴: 768 leaves (last leaf blank). Woodcut initials. (2) Collation: A-B⁸ C⁴ a-z⁸ A-S⁸ T⁴: 352 leaves (C4 blank). Woodcut initials. (3) Collation: aa⁸ a-z⁸ A-D⁸: 224 leaves. Woodcut initials. (Some marginal wormholes in first volume, small tear in last leaf of fourth volume.)

Binding: Contemporary Parisian dark brown calf gilt (178 x 122 mm), each cover with a double gilt fillet frame, the upper covers with the short title of each work, the date 1549 and the owner's name MICH. FOLCKAMER within the frame, frames on lower covers empty, corner fleurons, spines with small gilt flower stamp in each compartment, gilt edges, manuscript fragments in bindings. (Bindings slightly rubbed, repairs to spines, a few repairs to corners.)

Provenance: Michael Folckamer, name on bindings (possibly from the notable Volckamer family of Nuremberg ) — manuscript notes in two German hands on flyleaves, detailing the contents, and later pencil notes of a bookseller in German. Acquisition: Purchased in 2016 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. References: BP16 112723 (state B with prefatory letter from Antoine de Mouchy to Odet de Coligny), 110218 & 110216; USTC 195094, 140176 & 140292