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Corpus Iuris Civilis
Digestum vetus. [...] seu Pandectarum ... Institutiones amended ... Authentica novellarum volumen eruditis ..., 1549
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Lyons, Thomas Bertheau for Jacques & Jean Senneton, 1549. In 2nd. 2 volumes. I vol.: title page in large allegorical frame illustrated with brand, text in two columns in red and black with wide margins, with glosses, woodcut historiated initials, large woodcut table with Divisio Servitutum, files e and y badly bound, few and slight stains signs of humidity, last leaves with signs of burning on the lower margin; II vol.: 2 parts in one volume, 2 allegorical title pages illustrated with brand, text in red and black with gloss on two columns, woodcut vignettes and historiated initials, full-page woodcut illustration with Arbor feudorum, fasc. b of the Institutiones badly bound, signs of restoration on some leaves, sporadic moisture spots, woodworm holes, damaged spine, defects and shortcomings on the plates, coeval binding with four raised bands in rigid cardboard with cover on the plates from a paper manuscript palimpsest, al foot cut handwritten titles. Some handwritten notes, Cesaris Aresij ownership note on the title page of the Institutiones.
Monumental work in two volumes of Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis in a particularly accurate sixteenth-century Lyon edition; the first volume contains the old Digest, while the second contains the Institutions, the Novellas, the last three books (10-12) of the Codex and the Liber feudorum. The Digest presents itself with the commentary of the well-known glossator and jurist Accursio, famous precisely for his Magna glossa relating to the entire text of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. This is a valuable edition, particularly cared for already from the structure with wide margins of the writing mirror, the entire text is presented in red and black and is accompanied by numerous and detailed historiated initials and vignettes, entirely engraved in wood.
Monumental work in two volumes of Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis in a particularly accurate sixteenth-century Lyon edition; the first volume contains the old Digest, while the second contains the Institutions, the Novellas, the last three books (10-12) of the Codex and the Liber feudorum. The Digest presents itself with the commentary of the well-known glossator and jurist Accursio, famous precisely for his Magna glossa relating to the entire text of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. This is a valuable edition, particularly cared for already from the structure with wide margins of the writing mirror, the entire text is presented in red and black and is accompanied by numerous and detailed historiated initials and vignettes, entirely engraved in wood.
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