Corpus Iuris [Juris] Canonici Editio Lipsiensis Secunda Post Aemilii Ludouici Richteri Curas Ad Librorum Manu Scriptorum et Editione Romanae Fidem Recognoutt et Adnotatione Critica Instruxit Aemilius Friedberg Pars Secunda Decretalium Collectiones

LXXI, 3, 5-1340 columns, [2]. Quarter bound in dark cloth over paper-covered boards (although much of the cloth now absent). Folio. Covers heavily worn all over rubbed and lightly chipped on edges, cracked and loosening on front spine joint, marked, scuffed and spotted. Text block edges a little tarnished. Front hinge cracked with webbing visible. Some pencil annotations on front free endpaper. Stamp of the Bibliotheca Scholasticatus S Josephi, Lovanii on the front free endpaper and title page. Single flat crease to title page. A little spotting on first and last few pages, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A codification of the body of canon law of the Roman Catholic Church. Various editions have existed since the first attempts at codification during the time of the Carolingian Empire, assuming the collective title of Corpus Juris Canonici in the 16th century. Published in 1879 and 1881 (volume one and two respectively), Friedberg and Richter's critical edition was one of the great philological projects of the 19th century and remains the standard version of the work.