Forus Antiquus Gothorum Regum Hispaniae, Olim Liber Iudicum..

1600. Madrid: Ex officina Petri Madrigal, 1600.. Madrid: Ex officina Petri Madrigal, 1600. First Bilingual Spanish Edition of the Lex Visigothorum Villadiego Vascunana y Montoya, Alonso de, Editor. Forus Antiquus Gothorum Regum Hispaniae, Olim Liber Iudicum: Hodie Fuero Iuzgo Nuncupatus. XII. Libros Continens. Legumq; Omnium Integros Contextus, Ad Vetustissimorum Fidem Exemplarium, Sanctae Ecclesiae Toletanae, Necnon Regii Divi Laurentii Monasterii Scoriarii Diligenter Excussus: Atqu; Utilissimis Comentariis Illustratus. Cui Accessit Brevis Eorundem Historiua, Regumq; Hispanorum Catalogus, & Index Locupletissimus. Madrid: Ex officina Petri Madrigal, 1600. [xii], 80 pp., 461, [33] ff. Errors in numeration; text complete. Folio (11-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 28.6 x 19 cm). Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt rules to boards, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, gilt-stamped monogram (P.AR) to lower compartment, gilt tooling to board edges, marbled edges and endpapers. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends, light wear to board edges, corners bumped and worn, hinges cracked, small hole to front free endpaper. Attractive woodcut devices, initials and tail-pieces. Toning to interior, light browning and faint dampstaining in places, occasional light foxing, trimming to fore-edge just catching side-notes on a few pages, tears to a few leaves affecting text on ff. 187-190, no loss to legibility, index leaves 3N4-5 detached and lightly edgeworn. Struck-through owner signature to title page, early annotations to a few leaves. $1,500. * First edition in Spanish (with additional text in Latin). Promulgated in 654 CE, the Lex Visigothorum supplanted the existing law codes, which applied separately to Visigoth and Roman subjects, and governed all subjects of the Visigothic kings in lower France and Spain. It is also known by its Latin titles, Forum Judicum or Liber Iudiciorum. The Castilian Spanish title, Fuero Juzgo, was adopted upon its translation in the thirteenth century. Its influence extended to Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and also to Puerto Rico and some southern U.S. states. The first Latin edition was published in Paris in 1579. Universal Short-Title Catalogue 337620. Palau, Manual del Librero Hispano-Americano 95525.