Institutiones.
Glasgow collection of Continental legal literature.

D. Justiniani, sacratissimi principis, Institutionum, sive Elementorum libri quatuor : notis perpetuis multo, quam hucusque, diligentius illustrati / cura & studio Arnoldi Vinnii J.C.

Added engraved title page: D. Iustiniani, ss. principis, Institutionum libri quatuor.

Editio postrema / ab auctore recognita.

Amstelodami : Ex officina Henrici & Viduae Theodori Boom, 1690.

[20], 484 pages ; 16 cm (12mo)

Signatures: *¹⁰ A-V¹² X².
Printer's device on title page; initials.
Includes index.

The two library copies, otherwise apparently identical, have different printer's devices and slightly different typesettings (differing only in vertical spacing) of the title pages. The device on c. 1 shows a nude figure watering a tree with a Latin motto, and initials HDB; that on c. 2 is a rococo architectural decoration surmounted by a coronet.

Provenance (c. 1): From the Library of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, Scotland; James Millar, 1788 (inscription).
Provenance (c. 2): Charles Atwood Kofoid (bookplate).

Copy 1 bound in old leather, gold-tooled and -stamped on spine and covers, with title label and ribbon, gilt stamp of the Faculty of Procurators on front cover; Copy 2 bound in old vellum over boards.

Netherlands -- Amsterdam.

KJA1082.2 1690

Latin