Super Primo, II et III Codicis: Baldi de Perusio Iurisconsulti..

1539. Lyon: Gasparem Trechsel: Fratres], 1539.. Lyon: Gasparem Trechsel: Fratres], 1539. Commentaries by a Leading Jurist on Books I-III of Justinian's Code with an Interesting Monastic Provenance Baldus de Ubaldis [1327-1400]. Barbazza, Andrea [1581 or 1582-1656]. Tartagno, Alessandro [1424-1477]. Descousu, Celse-Hugues [b.1480]. Super Primo, II, Et III, Codicis. Baldi de Perusio Iurisconsulti Clarissimi, Super Primo, Secundo & Tertio Codicis Commentaria Luculentissima: Cu[m] Summariis, Ut Vocant, Singularum Legum Materias Succincte Indicantibus: Cumq[ue] Indice Alphabetico, Res Huius Operis Nota Digniores Copiosissime Complecte[n]te. Nec Desunt Repetitiones & Additiones eiusdem Baldi per D. Ioan. Fran. Musaptum Repertae, Ac Hisce Commentariis Adiectae. Accesserunt Etiamnum Doctissimorum Aliquot Iurisconsultorum Apostillae. Lyon: [Apud Melchiorem (et) Gasparem Trechsel: Fratres], 1539. 237 ff. Folio (15-1/2" x 10-3/4"; 39.4 x 27.3 cm). Recent three-quarter vellum over plain boards, paper label to spine, endpapers renewed. Title printed within elaborate woodcut border, text in two columns with woodcut initials and glosses. Moderate toning, light foxing and soiling in a few places, faint dampstaining to margins of a few leaves, title page and final leaf soiled and lightly edgeworn, early owner signature, "Christophori Selari, Jcti [i.e. Jurisconsulti]," and later inscription, "Bibliotheca Slakoverdensis Scholarum Piarum," to title page, annotations in two early hands to several leaves, most brief and affected by trimming. $1,750. * Issued as part of a set of commentaries by Baldus on the Corpus Juris Civilis published by the Trechsels from 1539-1541, this volume concerns Books I-III of the Code. Baldus, a leading Italian jurist, studied under Bartolus de Saxoferrato and Petrucius. He is best known for his commentaries on the Corpus Juris Civilis, especially the Code, but was also a prolific writer of consilia. This book is from the college library of the Piarist community of Schlackenwerth, Bohemia, now Ostrov, Czech Republic, which was established in 1666 and disbanded in 1876. It had a notably fine collection that was enriched by donations of libraries from local noble families. The most notable group came from the estate of Maria Benigna Francisca of Saxe-Lauenburg [1635-1701]. The library was dispersed in 1910 by its last owner, the.