CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS. Institutiones iuris ciuilis D. Iustiniani Imp....His accesserunt...Siluestri Aldobrandini lucubrationes, nunc ex eius scriptis, multo, quam ante, Francisci Cornelli opera, plurimis in locis locupletiores facte. Eiusdem Cornelli annotationes nunc primum edite..., Venice, apud Iuntas (in officina heredum Luce-antonii Iunte), 1560
8vo. 443ff. (of 444, lacks the final blank). Printed in red and black throughout, extensive commentary printed round the text, woodcut device on title- and last pages, full-page woodcut of the Arbor Consanguinitatis on Ff7v, 4 other woodcuts in the text, light waterstaining in the first few leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties.
An attractive Giuntine edition of 'Roman Law' indicating the law as consolidated by Justinian or, in other words, the law contained in the Corpus Iuris Civilis, which is the name that has been given since the sixteenth century to Justinian's legislative works as a whole, and distinguishes them from the Corpus Iuris Canonici. With some notes on the Institutiones tipped in on 3 small sheets at the beginning, dated 23 January 1596.Censimento C6704; Camerini 637; not in Adams; NUC locates only the copy at Princeton; RLIN adds Boalt Hall; not in OCLC
£750
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