Caroli Sigonii de antiquo iure Italiae libri tres : ad Senatum populumq[ue] Romanum.

De antiquo iure Italiae libri tres

Caroli Sigonii de antiquo iure Italiae libri tres : ad Senatum populumq[ue] Romanum.

Venetiis : Apud Iordanum Ziletum, MDLX [1560]

[8], 128, [16] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Treatise on Roman law, citizenship, and jurisprudence by Carlo Sigonio, the celebrated Italian scholar from Modena who, along with Scaliger, was one of the first humanists to turn erudition into a science. De antique iure also contains sections on the history of Athens and Sparta, and sections on Jewish archaeology and Church history. Sigonio's Fastes consulaires is considered to be the first historical record of the events of ancient Rome using sound scholarly techniques. The present work is most often found in later editions with his De antiquo iure civium Romanorum (also first published in 1560).

Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-2N⁴.
Errata: 2N3v.
Printer's device on title page and verso of colophon; initial.
Includes index.
Not in Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries.

Previously classed as: KJA147 .S54 1560.

Text printed in roman type.

Bound with: Zamoyski, Jan. Ioannis Sarii Zamoscii De Senatu Romano libri duo. Venetiis : I. Ziletum, 1563.

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 626
Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), volume 5, column 380
Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, volume 6, page 403
EDIT 16, CNCE 40950

Provenance: Du Lavy; Martin (inscriptions on title page); Earls of Macclesfield, North Library (bookplate on upper pastedown, dated 1860).

Bound in brown, gilt-tooled calfskin with red morocco label on spine; red speckled edges.

Online version: Sigonio, Carlo, 1524?-1584. De antiquo iure Italiae libri tres. Caroli Sigonii De antiquo iure Italiae libri tres, ad Senatum, populumq. Romanum. Venetiis : Apud Iordanum Ziletum, 1560

KJA2066.9.A3 D45 1560

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