Summa Azonis. Pt. 2.

Do. Azonis Summae aureae pars altera : in Institutiones, Digestum vetus, Infortiatum, Digestum nouum, Nouellas seu Authent.

Pt. 1 has title: D. Azonis Summa aurea, id est, Locuples iuris ciuilis thesaurus.

[Geneva] : In officina Iacobi Stoer, & Franc. Fabrj Lugdunensis, MDXCVI [1596]

327 pages, 21 unnumbered page ; 26 cm (quarto)

Signatures: A-V⁸ X⁴ Y⁸ Z² (last leaf blank).
Printer's device on t.p., headpieces, initials.
Includes index.

Lib. lacks pt. 1.
Marginalia.
Binding: contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over cardboard (ties wanting), with red page-edges; portrait of Emperor Rudolf II, dated 1590 and signed "C L", stamped on front cover, with motto "Verbum Domini manet in aeternum" and, below the portrait, "Rudolphus II D.G. Rom. Imp. semper Au[gustus] an. Do. M.D.LXXXX." Above and below the portrait panel are the owner's initials H.G.B. with date 1597. The surrounding panel has small portraits of Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid (repeated), and the four Evangelists. Cf. Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel.

Haebler, Konrad. Rollen- und Plattenstempel des XVI. Jahrhunderts, I, 258.

Provenance: Ad vsum Henricj Guyer Brunnfrutanj I.V.S. Fac. Ao. Salutis 1597; Collegij Socis. Iesu Bruntz. 1650 ex [...?] D. Guyer (cf. also initials H G B stamped on cover); Momy 1812 (inscriptions).

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KJA1690.A3 S9 1596 pt. 2

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