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1551710331551. 2 vols. in 1 book. Lyon: Hugo a Porta 1551. 2 vols. in 1 book. Lyon: Hugo a Porta 1551. An Attractive Collection of Texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis with Contemporary Annotations Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. La Porte Hugues de Compiler. Vincent Antoine Compiler. Volumen: Complectitur hoc Volumen Sic Enim Peculiari Vocabulo Vocant Novellas Constitutiones Iustiniani Principis Post Repetitam Codicis Prelectionem Editas Authentica Vulgo Appellant Tres Item Posteriores libros Codicis Feudorum seu Beneficiorum Duos Constitutiones Friderici II. Imper. Extravagantes Duas Henrici II. Imper. & Tractatum de Pace Constantiae. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta & Antonium Vincentium 1551. xx 359 1 226 2 145 3 pp. Main text in parallel columns glosses in margins. Bound with La Porte Hugues de Compiler. Vincent Antoine Compiler. Institutiones: Imperatoris Semper Maximi Divi Iustiniani Elementa Civilis Facultatis Prima ac Velut Iuris Ipsius Candidatorum Nutritiae Cunae Cum his Haud Dubie Omnibus Quae Etiamnum Coeundi Simulque Excudi Contigit. Diectis Praeterea ad Marginem Observationibus Annotationibusque. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta & Antonium Vincentium 1551. xxxviii 2 383 1 pp. Woodcut folding table of consanguinity. Main text in parallel columns glosses in margins. Folio 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Seventeenth-century speckled sheep gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece gilt tooling to board edges speckled edges to text block marbled pastedowns. Light rubbing and light scuffing to boards minor worming to rear board moderate rubbing to extremities small chip to head of spine corners bumped and lightly worn hinges cracked. Title page and text printed in red and black. Light to moderate toning occasional faint dampstaining to margins light foxing to a few places annotations in miniscule early hand to 40 pp. of Institutiones legibility of some affected by trimming. An attractive volume. $950. Often purchased individually these titles are part of an edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis in six unnumbered and bibliographically distinct volumes compiled and issued by the Lyon printers Hugues de la Porte and Antoine Vincent. The Volumen contains the Authentica a selection from the Novels that was believed be intended for Italy the Code the legal system esta. unknown books
1928007009Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1928. Fifth Edition Impression of 1928 stated. Very Good Plus prior owner name and city front end page slight spotting to cloth at top edges No jacket. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . Fifth Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover books
2002336142002. ISBN-13: 9781584771852; ISBN-10: 1584771852. English Translation of the Institutes Moyle J.B. The Institutes of Justinian. Translated into English with an Index. Fifth Edition. Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press 1913. viii 220 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771852; ISBN-10: 1584771852. Hardcover. New. $24.95 An English translation with a thorough index of Justinian's Institutes. After assuming the throne of the East Roman or Byzantine Empire in 527 Justinian Favius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus A.D. 483-565 sought to revise the most important legal writings of the original republic and empire including the body of laws that had accumulated during the last 300 years. His revision of the Institutes of Gaius c.A.D. 115-c.180 is perhaps the most significant volume to emerge from this program. Written around A.D. 161 it is an elementary treatise on Roman private law that served as a standard text for 300 years. Justinian's revision brought the original up to date while maintaining its qualities of clear exposition and perspicuous judgment. It was later combined with three other revisions the Digest Code and Novels to form the Corpus Juris Civilis a profound influence on European law from the tenth century onwards. Walker The Oxford Companion to Law 511 696. unknown books
1812662461812. First Edition of Cooper's Translation of the Institutes Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. Cooper Thomas 1759-1839 Translator and Editor. The Institutes of Justinian. With Notes. Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne 1812. xiv 714 i.e. 716 pp. Latin and English translation in parallel columns. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine original endpapers retained. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing. An attractive copy. $600. First edition. Includes a bibliography of civil law and the complete text of The Law of the Twelve Tables. A landmark in the American reception of Roman law and the first translation of Justinian produced in the United States this edition includes fascinating notes that compare Roman law with that of the United States. He even includes a table of cases. Cooper a chemist and lawyer by training was a polymath who published books on law political science economics medicine and the natural sciences. A friend of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Jefferson he was a professor of chemistry at Dickinson College and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty of South Carolina College in 1819 and became its president in 1820. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 1644. unknown books
15601503081Venice 1560. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very rare 16th century printing of what is considered the first text book every published for first year law students. Lacks title page but appears otherwise complete. Contains publication information on last page identifying as being published in Venice Italy in 1560. The Institutes was part of the Corpus Juris Civilis Roman/Byzantine Emperor Justinian's Sixth Century codification and reform of Roman law but in particular this part the Institutes was intended as a textbooks for starting law students Very good in very early boards. First edition thus. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Venice hardcover books
1934013182Washington DC: Catholic University of America 1934. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. viii 92 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Paperback binding with minor browning and minor shelfewear. A few pencil notations scattered throughout the text. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the inside of the rear cover. From the collection of Louis Marder Shakespeare historian and collector of books by on or referring to William Shakespeare. Catholic University of America Paperback books
18281329166New York: Printed by J. & J. Harper 1828. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; Hardcover; Spine tan with black print on yellow label; Boards quarter bound with tan cloth to spine and green paper to boards title label on spine is partially torn away spine caps corners and edges are tattered boards are creased soiling to spine and boards stains name in ink on front; Text block has deckled edges front endpapers torn away substantial foxing and tanning throughout; xvi 211 pages. 1329166. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed by J. & J. Harper hardcover books
1530691021530. Paris 1530. A Pocket Edition. Paris 1530. A Pocket Edition. Handsomely Printed Pocket-Sized Edition with Commentaries by Sassoferrato Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. D'Aurigny Gilles Editor. Sassoferrato Bartolo de 1313-1357 Glossator. Textus Infortiati: Domini Justiniani Imperatoris Sacratissimi. Cum Summariis. Paris: Francois Regnault c.1530. 290 24 ff. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo 5-1/2" x 3-3/4". Recent three-quarter cloth over paper-covered boards contemporary thumb-tabs to fore-edge of text block early hand-lettered title to top-edge endpapers renewed. Light soiling light rubbing to extremities. Title page and text printed in red and black handsome woodcut title-page vignette of Justinian and his court repeated on verso of third leaf and recto of final leaf large Regnault elephant device to verso of leaf preceding "Tabula Legum" and verso of final leaf crible initials. Light toning light soiling and small stain to title page library stamp to its verso and to a few other leaves. A handsomely printed edition. $1500. This is a pocket-sized volume of the Infortiatum of Justinian's Digest surrounded by commentaries chiefly by Bartolo de Sassoferrato the preeminent early expositor of Roman law. These are printed within the text columns and distinguished from the main text by pointing hands. Summaries of the titles are included as well. The medieval glossators divided the Digest into three sections or Volumina: the Digestum Vetus the Digestum Novum and the Infortiatum. Comprising Books XXIV Title 2 to XXXVIII the Infortiatum addresses donations between husband and wife divorce curatorship wills and testaments and trusts and legacies. OCLC locates 11 copies 4 in North America 1 in a law library University of Georgia. Not in Adams. Universal Short-Title Catalogue 181299. unknown books
1588715191588. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum 1588. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum 1588. Influential Commentaries Code and Digest Cujas Jacques 1522-1590. Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. Paratitla in Libros Quinquaginta Digestorum Seu Pandectarum Item in Libros Novem Codicis Imperatoris Iustiniani. Ex Postrema Auctoris Recognitione. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum Sub Monocerote 1588. xxviii 195 1; xxxvi 541 i.e. 521 pp. Two parts each with title page and individual pagination second part has title beginning Paratitla in Libros IX. Codicis Iustiniani. Bound with Cujas Jacques. Africanus Sextus Caecilius 2nd C. Ad Africanum Tractatus VIIII. Quibus Difficillimae Iuris Quaestiones Enodantur. Ex Postrema Auctoris Recognitione Castigate Editi. Accesserunt Indices Duo Copiosi Quorum Prior est Legum Africani Alter Materiarum. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum Sub Monocerote 1588. xlviii 622 i.e. 624 pp. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4". Elaborately blind-tooled half blind-stamped pigskin over vellum with horizontal vertical and diagonal rules binding dated 1592 raised bands and faint early hand-lettered title to spine. Moderate soiling some rubbing to boards heavier rubbing to extremities with wear to corners spine ends bumped front hinge cracked front free endpaper lacking. Moderate toning light browning in places brief early annotations to a few leaves and title pages later owner stamps and markings to front pastedown and title page of Paratitla in Libros Quinquaginta Digestorum. $2500. Later editions. Cujas a professor of law at the universities of Cahors Bourges Valencia and Turin was the preeminent authority on Roman law in his day. The author of several commentaries he was also an important philologist who recovered and published the Codex Theodosianus and the Basilica. The first work in this volume contains important commentaries on first nine books of the Code the twelve-book legal code established by Justinian I and the 50th book of the Digest a 50-volume collection of judicial commentary that were originally published separately in 1569 and 1570. Both remained standard works into the nineteenth century. Ad Africanum Tractatus VIIII. is a commentary on the Quaestiones of Sextus Caecilius Africanus a collection of legal cases included in the. unknown books
1562709451562. Paris 1562. Paris 1562. A Respected Edition of the Novels Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. Holoander Gregor 1501-1531 Translator and Editor. Scrimger Henry 1506-1572 Editor and Annotator. Novellarum Constitutionum DN. Iustiniani Principis Volumen Quod Authenticon Vocant Gregorio Haloandro Interprete Ad Scrimgerianam Editionem Diligenter Collatum Ac Sedulo Emendatum: Cui Accesserunt Canones Apostolorum. Feudorum Libri Duo. Constitutiones Lothari III. & Friderichi II. Impp. Extravagantes Henrici VII. Imp. Tractatus de Pace Constantiae: Et Nunc Recens Iustiniani Imperatoris Edicta Henrico Agylaeo Interprete. Paris: Apud Gulielmum Merlin 1562. viii 332 4 ff. Last leaf blank. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". Contemporary vellum blind panels enclosing large blind arabesques to boards pastedowns renewed. Negligible light soiling boards slightly bowed spine ends bumped owner signature clipped from upper corner of front free endpaper later owner annotation to following endleaf early owner signature to head of title page. Moderate toning to text a few chips and some edgewear to front endleaves. $1250. Along with the Institutes Code and Digest the Novels is one of the writings known collectively as the Corpus Juris Civilis. The first three books were commissioned by the Justinian I in 530CE. The Code is the restated code of law the Digest is a compilation of legal opinions and the Institutes is an introductory textbook on the Code. The Novels is a compilation of laws enacted after the publication of the Code. The subsequent influence of these books on European jurisprudence is difficult to overestimate. Haloander was one of the great sixteenth-century authorities on Roman law. His edition of the Novels includes the Peace of Constantine Edict of Milan the act that recognized the legitimacy of Christianity in the Roman Empire edicts of the Holy Roman Emperors Henry VII reigned 1165-1197 and Frederick II reigned 1194-1250 and a collection of papal legislation falsely attributed to Pope Clement I reigned 88-99CE the so-called "False Decretals." Adams A Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe J685. unknown books
1772711821772. Liege: Chez J. Dessain 1772. Liege: Chez J. Dessain 1772. A Notable French Edition of the Digest Book 50 Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. Dantoine Jean Baptiste 1693-1720 Translator and Editor. Les Regles du Droit Civil Dans le Meme Ordre Qu'Elles sont Disposees au Dernier Titre du Digeste; Traduites en Francois Avec des Explications & Des Commentaires sur Chaque Regle. Et Trois Tables Tres-Exactes l'Une de Tous les Textes du Droit Rapportes & Expliques dans cet Ouvrage l'Autre des Regles du Droit Rangees por Ordre Alphabetique Selon Leur Ordre Naturel La 3me. de Toutes les Matieres. Nouvelle Edition Revue & Corrigee. Liege: Chez J. Dessain 1772. lxiv 502 xxxii pp. Quarto 10" x 8-3/4". Contemporary sheep with cat's-paw decoration gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece speckled edges. Boards slightly bowed rubbing to extremities with minor wear to edges corners bumped and somewhat worn joints just starting at ends moderate toning to interior. A handsome copy. $850. Penultimate edition. The final title of the Digest "De Diversis Regulis Juris Antiqui Concerning Different Rules of Ancient Law" is a collection of 211 maxims derived from Ulpian and other jurists. Dantoine's edition presents the maxims in the original Latin with translations and extensive commentary. First published in 1710 it went through six editions the last in 1775. All are scarce. OCLC locates 3 copies of the 1772 edition in North America Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec McGill University UC-Berkeley Law School. Camus Bibliotheque Choisie des Livres de Droit 658. unknown books
1772710291772. Liege: Chez J. Dessain 1772. Liege: Chez J. Dessain 1772. A Notable French Edition of the Digest Book 50 Justinian I 483-565CE Emperor of the East. Dantoine Jean Baptiste Editor. Les Regles du Droit Civil Dans le Meme Ordre Qu'Elles sont Disposees au Dernier Titre du Digeste; Traduites en Francois Avec des Explications & Des Commentaires sur Chaque Regle. Et Trois Tables Tres-Exactes l'Une de Tous les Textes du Droit Rapportes & Expliques dans cet Ouvrage l'Autre des Regles du Droit Rangees por Ordre Alphabetique Selon leur ordre Naturel La 3me. de Toutes les Matieres. Nouvelle Edition Revue & Corrigee. Liege: Chez J. Dessain 1772. lxiv 502 xxxii pp. Quarto 10" x 8-3/4". Nineteenth-century three-quarter calf over paper-covered boards lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine. Some rubbing and faint dampstaining to boards heavier rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners joints cracked faint crack through center of spine chipping to edges of lettering piece two small later bookplates to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places faint dampstaining to margins of preliminaries. $750. Penultimate edition. The final title of the Digest "De Diversis Regulis Juris Antiqui Concerning Different Rules of Ancient Law" is a collection of 211 maxims derived from Ulpian and other jurists. Dantoine's edition presents the maxims in the original Latin with translations and extensive commentary. First published in 1710 it went through six editions the last in 1775. All are scarce. OCLC locates 3 copies of the 1772 edition in North America Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec McGill University UC-Berkeley Law School. Camus Bibliotheque Choisie des Livres de Droit 658. unknown books
1547WB17559Paris: Vivant Gaultherot 1547. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 113 x 80mm. Gaultherots woodcut printers placard and cherub head Avec Privilege on title page. Pagination: 8 332pp. Signatures: dagger8 a-z8 A-S8 T4. Later French calf embossed with heraldic lion passant on covers gilt tooled cornerpieces and five gilt fleurons on spine four raised bands still with manuscript binders waste; good compact copy of this cornerstone publication for 16th century French legal education a rare survival; some light edgewear: headcap slightly chipped corners lightly bumped; internally clean though some minor marginal worming at times in text altogether solid. Title inscribed with former owners initials and dated 1702 possibly von Clodh suggesting German ownership by the early 18th century. <br/><br/>Rare pocket edition of the Institutes of Justinian known as the Institutions impériales in French and printed in Paris by Vivant Gaultherot in 1547; following two earlier editions in 1543 and 1544. There were at least five more editions of this French translation printed between 1547 and 1558. As early as the 12th century French legal students began to refine their study and practice of law toward a perfected Justinian system. This interest was largely owed to the spread of the scientific study of pure Roman law initiated at the University in Bologna. The Bologna revival as it was known made its way first to the law university at Montpellier and then spread elsewhere in France. Over the following centuries demands for new translations of the Justinian Institutes were doubtless tied to the foundation of several new French universities. Nicolaus de LEscut d. 1580 editor and translator of the Institutions impériales was an early modern jurist diplomat and secretary to Antoine the Good Duke of Lorraine. LEscuts translators note states he took grosse peine or great trouble in this undertaking so the reader would understand the text plus facilement. The Bologna revival at medieval universities across Europe and the growing interest in new translations of the Justinian Institutes introduced ideas of Roman law to the provinces. See Sherman Roman Law in the Modern World pp. 227-228. Rare OCLC locates one copy held in the US by the LC no. 77227442. See also Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle no. BP16_112725. Vivant Gaultherot hardcover books
16791335008Lugduni Batav Leiden: Felicem Lopez 1679. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 36 316 8 pages; G; bound in contemporary vellum ink titling to spine; vellum with mild soiling small chipping to front edge of tail of spine vellum beginning to peel on the lower fore corner of the rear board; with front and rear free blanks; ex-library with removed sticker from spine removed bookplate from front pastedown small stamp to recto of title page; embossed stamp to title page and page 99; ink stain to ffep; includes index; With added engraved title page with varying date of publication: MDCLXXX; <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Profusely extensively and colorfully filled with marginalia. Black red green and yellow are all used for underlining while black and red are used for writing. Beautiful handwriting at times indistinguishable from the printed marginalia.;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> AG consignment; scarce; shelved case 3. Böckelmann became a professor in Leiden in 1670 and had a lasting influence with his Compendium Institutionum which taught through a simplified teaching method and shorter summaries rather than Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis.;. 1335008. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Felicem Lopez hardcover books
1561709811561. Basel: Per Ioannem Hervagium 1561. First edition. Basel: Per Ioannem Hervagium 1561. First edition. Edited by a "Reformed" Lawyer and Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I Justinian I 485-565CE Emperor of the East. Haloander Gregor 1501-1531 Translator and Editor. Agylaeus Henricus 1532 or 1533-1595 Editor. Iustiniani Principis Novellae Constitutiones Latine Ex Gregorii Haloandri et Henrici Agylaei Interpretatione Ad Grecum Scrimgeri Exemplar Nunc Primum Edite. Quibus Suis Locis Interferiter Quicquid Vetus Versio Amplius Habet Atque Proximis Editionib. Ex Vetustis Libris Ac Iuliani Epitme Aspersum Est. In qua Editione Henrici Agylaei Opera Diligentem tum Variarum Lectionum Annotationem Tum Haloandrice Versionis Castigationem Invenire est. Item Eiusdem Iustiniani Edicta Iustini Tiberii Leonis Philosophi Constitutiones; & Una Zenonis Quae ad Titulum Codicis de Privatis Aedificiis Pertinet: Henrico Aegylaeo Interprete. Postremo Canones Sanctorum Apostolorum per Clementem in Unum Congesti Gregorio Haloandro Interprete. Basel: Per Ioannem Hervagium 1561. xxxii 598 2 pp. Quarto 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". Contemporary limp vellum early hand-lettered title to spine ties lacking. Minor soiling a few small stains and few tiny worm holes some wear to corners a few minor tears to spine ends front joint starting at ends front pastedown worn and partially detached text block somewhat loose vellum beginning to crack though rear pastedown. Faint dampstaining to head of text block moderate toning foxing and light browning in places mild edgewear to corners of preliminaries recent early owner inscription to front free endpaper. $2500. First edition. This collection of legal texts begins with the first appearance of a revised edition with original commentary by teh Dutch jurist Agylaeus of Gregor Haloander's complete translation of the Novels one of the four components of the Corpus Juris Civilis. This is followed by a group legal texts from other sources edited with commentary by Agylaeus Including: De Indulgentia Tributariorum Reliquorum Tiberii Imperatoris de Divinis Domibus Constitutio Imperatoris Leonis Augusti Novellae Constitutiones Imperatoris Leonis Augusti Novellae Constitutiones and Zenonis Imperatoris de Novis Operibus Constituio Eodem Interprete. He also includes Haoloander's version of the Apostolic Canons of Pope Cleme. unknown books
16587785Amsterdam: Ex Officina Elzeviriana 1658. Later printing. Vellum. Very Good. 12mo. 246431pp. Added copper engraved title. Cont. vellum. Some old light text soiling. Willems # 1231 the third Elzevir edition of the INSTITUTIONUM. Ex Officina Elzeviriana hardcover books
165819828Amstelaedami Amsterdam: Ex Officina Elzeviriana 1658. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo 5.5 x 3.25 inches contemporary full vellum title handwritten in ink on backstrip red speckled edges. xxii 643 pp. Text in Latin. Some paper residue presumably from a removed bookplate on front pastedown otherwise clean and bright internally. Vellum is slightly cracked at joints and lightly soiled but still very good copy overall. Third Elzevir edition; Willems 1231. A respected and popular commentary on Justinian's Institutes first published in 1646. Ex Officina Elzeviriana hardcover books
17101334187Amstelaedami Amsterdam: Ex Officina Wetsteniana 1710. Hardcover. 12mo. 12 315 pages; VG-; bound in contemporary full calf paneled spine with gilt titling and stamping; moderate wear including chipping to head and tail of spine wear to hinges bumping to corners; additional engraved title page; embossed stamp to title page page 99; damage to front pastedown possible bookplate removal; text in black and red; small ink writing to title page; shelved case 3. The Institutes of Justinian is a unit of the Corpus Juris Civilis the sixth-century codification of Roman law ordered by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. wikipedia. 1334187. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Ex Officina Wetsteniana hardcover books
1505707811505. 1505 Paris Edition of the Institutes Justinian I 485-565 CE Emperor of the East. Accursius Accorso Francisco c.1182-c.1260 Glossator. Chappuis Jean Editor. Institutiones Imperiales: Ordinate Glosis Textuales Divisiones Habentur. Patescit Grecum Utile cum Expositione Succincta. Universi Tituli Alphabetico Ordine Ponuntur. Summaria Rubra Multis Adiectis Sunt Textibus Immixta. Orbibus Variis Vallata Civilis Arbor hic exaratur fo. cxvij. Plurima et Textuum et Glosarum Turpis Menda Expurgatur. Tituli Continuatione Patenti Redduntur Clari. Involute Materie Nectuntur Tabula Singulari. Medulle Glosarum Omnibus in Marginibus Sunt Extracte. Versibus Rubrice Iuris Cesarei Leguntur Aperte. Multiplices bone Glose plerisque Locis Sunt Apposite. Paris: Per Udalricum Gering et Magistrum Bertholdum Rembolt December 5 1505. xii 117 ff. Text in parallel columns with linear gloss. First letters of the verses that follow Institutiones Imperiales on title page from an anagram "opus optimum." Two-page table of descents. Folio 10" x 7". Contemporary blind-stamped calf raised bands to spine clasps lacking hasps present. Moderate rubbing and a few minor scuffs to boards heavier rubbing to extremities corners and spine ends worn calf worn away from two spine bands a few cracks to text block signature n ff. 97-104 detached and moderately edgeworn. Printed throughout in red and black large crible printer device and decorative borders to title page crible initials and table of descents. Moderate toning and occasional light soiling and foxing early annotations to endleaves and title page additional early annotations and underlining to some leaves in the text. $5000. Commissioned by the Emperor Justinian in 530 CE the body of writings known collectively as the Corpus Juris Civilis restated all existing Roman law. It has four components: the Code Novels Institutes and Digest. Intended for students the Institutes is a synopsis of the reformed legal system. Rediscovered during the late middle ages it became the standard textbook of Roman law. The main text of our 1501 imprint is accompanied by Accorso's great Glossa Ordinaria or Magistralis. A Professor of Law at Bologna and a leading figure in the revival o. unknown books
1501707701501. Venice: Per Paganinum de Paganinis May 25 1501. Venice: Per Paganinum de Paganinis May 25 1501. 1501 Venetian Edition of the Institutes in a Contemporary Binding Justinian I 485-565 CE Emperor of the East. Accursius Accorso Francisco c.1182-c.1260 Glossator. Gradibus Johannes de active 15th-16th c. Instituta cum Summariis. Venice: Per Paganinum de Paganinis May 25 1501. 152 i.e. 140 ff. Text in parallel columns with linear gloss. Octavo 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf blind frames and ornaments to boards raised bands to spine clasps lower clasp lacking strap and buckle endpapers renewed inner margins of title page and leaf s1 fol. 137 reinforced. Light rubbing to boards light gatoring to spine rubbing and light wear to spine ends rubbing with heavier wear to corners. Printed throughout in red and black "I" of "Instituta" on title page colored red. Moderate toning faint in some places very faint dampstaining some edgewear to preliminaries and final three leaves annotations in early hand to title page and its verso the verso of final leaf and some leaves of the text. $7500. Commissioned by the Emperor Justinian in 530 CE the body of writings known collectively as the Corpus Juris Civilis restated all existing Roman law. It has four components: the Code Novels Institutes and Digest. Intended for students the Institutes is a synopsis of the reformed legal system. Rediscovered during the late middle ages it became the standard textbook of Roman law. The main text of our 1501 imprint is accompanied by Accorso's great Glossa Ordinaria or Magistralis. A Professor of Law at Bologna and a leading figure in the revival of classical jurisprudence Accorso examined every extant note and commentary when he prepared his epochal edition of Justinian's Institutes Digest and Code. This massive effort eliminated much of the obscurity and contradiction introduced by earlier writers. His editions which superseded all previous attempts remained definitive until the 1583 revision by Denis Godefroy. OCLC locates 3 copies 1 in North America Library of Congress. Not in Adams. Censimento Nazionale delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo CNCE 14113. unknown books
1602EPL78Saint Gervais near Geneva: Officina Vignoniana 1602. Paperback. Very Good. Cols. 653-668. Given new world expansion 17th-century jurists in England and France were enormously interested in the codification of existing common law. In a longstanding attempt to establish a single legal code their aims required the reprinting of several classic texts which they hoped could influence contemporary and later opinion on prominent social issues ie. the morality in holding slaves. Double column and ruled borders. Extensive printed gloss. Woodcut initials and foliate book headpiece. Size: 400 x 260 mm. <br/><br/> Officina Vignoniana paperback books
1572D4701Venice: F. Rampazeto 1572. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 175 x 120mm. 48 366pp. Signatures: a-f 8; A-YY 8; ZZ 8 -ZZ7-8 blank. Woodcut printers device on title of basilisk fighting a bird with motto Terrena coelestibus obsunt; in an architectural frame and woodcut historiated headpiece woodcut vignette beginning book of the Institutiones; on leaf 212r a full-page representation of the arbor civilis. Text is all-around gloss; printed in black and red. Dedicatory letter of H. Messaggius to Senator Federicus Baduarius prelim. leafs 2 is dated 1558. Period vellum three raised bands; leaves slightly offset slightly browned; hinge cracked at rear some quires loose rear pastedown glue-stained. The Corpus Iuris Civilis or the Justinian Code was the result of Emperor Justinians desire that existing Roman law be collected into a simple and clear system of laws or code. Tribonian a legal minister under Justinian lead a group of scholars in an effort to codify existing Roman law. The result was the first Justinian Code completed in 529. This code was later expanded to include Justinians own laws as well as two additional books on areas of the law. In 534 the Justinian Code made up of the Code the Digest and the Institutes was completed. Justinians collections were in ancient times always copied separately and afterwards they were printed in the same way. This part of the Institutiones falls under the whole Corpus Iuris Civilis is an early example before the unification under this heading. The present name of Justinians codification was only adopted in the 16th century when it was printed in 1583 by Dionysius Gothofredus. The legal thought behind the Corpus Juris Civilis served as the backbone of the single largest law reform of the modern age the Napoleonic Code which marked the abolition of feudalism. <br/><br/> [F. Rampazeto] hardcover books
1562710271562. Paris 1562. Interleaved and annotated. Paris 1562. Interleaved and annotated. Interleaved Copy Annotated by a French Nobleman Justinian I 485-565 CE Emperor of the East. Hotman Francois 1524-1590 Editor. Digestorum seu Pandectarum Libri Quinquaginta ex Pandectis Florentinis Nuper in Lucem Emissis Quoadeius Fieri Potuit Repraesentati & In Septem Partes Justiniani Sententia Distincti Adjectis Brevibus Francisci Hotomanni Parisiensis I.C. Clarissimi Summariis. Paris: Apud Guilielmum Merlin in ponte nummulariorum et Guilielmum Desboys 1562. civ 258 pp. Interleaved. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Contemporary vellum armorial devices to boards lettering piece to spine. Soiling and a few stains and minor nicks some wear to spine ends pastedowns loose a few chips to vellum along fore-edge of front board early owner bookplate to front pastedown early owner signature dated 1729 to front free endpaper crack in text block between front free endpaper and title page. Moderate toning to text light foxing to a few leaves occasional faint dampstaining to foot of text block. Annotations in neat contemporary hand some quite extensive to several leaves and about a third of the interleaves occasional early underlining. $750. This volume is first of a seven-volume edition of the Novels one of the four components of the Corpus Juris Civilis. It belonged to a French noble Charles Du Ruisseau "in supremo senatu Patroni." Excepting one page in Latin in a different hand the annotations most likely by Du Ruisseau are in French. Mostly analytical they reflect considerable engagement with the text. Several include cross-references and references to other sections of the Corpus Juris Civilis. unknown books
165849004Amstelodami: ex officina Elseviriana 1658. 12mo pp. 24 643 1; engraved title page printer's woodcut device on printed title several woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; spine worn but generally good and sound. This is the third Elzevier edition. Copinger 2552; Willems 1231. <br/><br/> ex officina Elseviriana unknown books
1744417751744. The Institutes with Commentaries by Notable French Scholars Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. Cujas Jacques 1522-1590 Editor. Lacoste Jean c.1560-1637 Commentator. Marcile Theodore 1548-1617 Commentator. Muret Marc-Antoine 1526-1585 Commentator. van de Water Johannes d.1689 Editor. D.N. Justiniani Perpetui Augusti Institutionum Sive Elementorum per Tribunianum Virum Magnificum Magistrum & Exquaestore Sacri Palatii & Theophilum & Dorotheum Viros Illustres & Antecessores Libri Quatuor Emendatissimi ex Editione Jacob Cujacii. In Eosdem.& Antecessoris Clariss. Commentarius. Accedunt Huic Editioni Annotationes & Notae Theodori Marcilii & Marci Antonii Mureti Ut & M. Tatii Alpini Dessertatio de Surto per Lancem & Licium Concepto. Adjecti Quoque Sunt Varii Indices Curante Joanne van de Water. Leiden: Apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1744. xxxxviii 667 1 pp. Fold-out table of descents. Quarto 9-1/2" x 7-1/2". Contemporary vellum raised bands ornate gilt double frames enclosing heraldic device to boards gilt ornaments to spine. Soiling some wear to corners and spine ends front endleaf or half-title lacking. Title page printed in red and black. Handsome woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Partial split between preliminary gathering and title page. Interior notably fresh. $400. An edition of the Institutes by Cujas with extensive commentary and notes by Jean Lacoste Theodore Marcile and Marc-Antoine Muret. These jurists who followed Cujas' example were leaders of the French humanistic school which aimed to purge Roman sources of later corruptions. Their pioneering methods did much to establish the field of philology. Compiled around 161 CE the Institutes is an elementary treatise on Roman private law that served as a standard text for 300 years. After its rediscovery during the medieval era it became a staple of European legal education. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
