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Earlier this week, I was able to spend some time in the Robbins Collection to locate some texts for these ongoing projects.  I used to spend a lot of time in the Robbins, but I haven't visited in recent years since I started acquiring and assembling my own library of sources.  COVID made it more difficult.  But I finally found some time to return, and I needed to do so.  Decretalist sources are now increasingly becoming a point of interest, and I haven't spent as much time with this material.   I'll be posting up some of the materials I've worked with recently.  I'll start with this commentary by Felino Sandeo on the Liber Extra.   Felinus, In Quinque Decretalium, 1547.  Robbins Collection, Berkeley. Felinus is particularly interesting to me, as he was one of Bodin's most frequently cited Decretalist authorities (along with Panormitanus and Baldus) when it came to the issue of absolute power.   Here is the opening summary of his commentary on Quae in ecclesiarum

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