Folio. [64], 356, 155, [21], 77pp, [3]. Text printed in double columns. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine, corners bumped. Very occasional recent coloured pencil highlights, small burn hole to leaf Dd2 - touching text without loss of sense.

The Canon law of the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, as collected and abridged in 1433 by Bishop of St. David's William Lyndwood (c. 1375-1446), with his explanatory notes, edited by Josse Badius. Written between 1422 and 1432, the Provinciale is the classic account of English canon law, collecting the most important synodal constitutions and ecclesiastical degrees enacted by the archbishops of Canterbury between the Council of Oxford in 1222 and the archiepiscopate of Henry Chichele, at whose encouragement the book was compiled. The 1679 edition is one of the few unabridged editions.