Description

Gratian was a 12th-century Benedictine monk and canon lawyer from Bologna. Little is known about him beyond the fact that he compiled and wrote this collection of legal texts, which became the code of canon law used in the Roman Catholic Church until 1918. Very few of the numerous printed editions of the Decretum Gratiani were so lavishly furnished with miniatures as was this incunabulum, dating from 1472, printed on parchment and supplemented with the gloss to the Decretum by Johannes Teutonicus in the version of Bartholomaeus of Brescia. This ...