Codex (Corpus juris civilis)

Codicis Iustiniani D.N. sacratissimi principis PP. Aug. repetitae praelectionis libri XII / commentariis Dionysij Gothofredi i.c. illustrati.

Secunda editio priore multò auctior.

Lugduni [Lyon] : Apud haeredes Bartholomaei Honorati, MDXC [1590]

16 unnumbered pages, 952 columns ; 41 cm (folio)

Signatures: *-**⁴ A-QQ⁶ RR⁴.
*3 missigned **iij.
Printer's device on t.p., head- and tailpieces, initials.
T.p. in red and black.
Sideglosses.
Text in double columns, surrounded by commentary.
Issued with 5 other vols. to form an edition of the complete Corpus juris civilis.

Binding: contemporary reversed leather (sheepskin or deerskin?) over paper boards, sewn on 6 double tanned leather bands, with stuck-on endbands.

With: [Novellae constitutiones]. Authenticae, seu, Nouellae constitutiones Dn. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis, Leonis et quorundam imperatorum. 2nd ed. [Geneva] : Apud haeredes Eustathij Vignon, 1590.

Provenance: Ex libris [...] Drinée [?]; nunc Petri Luciol causidici (inscriptions); another, later, inscription (illegible); Franciscus Guillot Balgiensis [me?] possidet (inscription on rear flyleaf).

RARE

KJA1062.22 1590 Folio

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