Practica Iudiciaria Jac de Belvisu Solen[n]is [et] Iudicibus Omnibus

1545. No Copies Located Outside of Italy: A Rare 1543 Imprint, This Copy in a Late-Medieval Manuscript Binding Belviso, Jacobus de [c.1270-1335]. Descousou, Celse Hugues [1480-1540]. Puget, Honore [fl. mid-16th century]. Practica Iudiciaria Jac.de Bel.Visu: Sole[n]nis & Iudicibus Omnibus, Advocatisq[ue] & Practicis Cu[n]ctis Nedu[m] Utilis: Immo Pernecessaria Practica Judiciaria in Materiis Criminalibus. [Lyon?]: S.n., 1543. [xii], 112 ff. Main text in double columns. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4-3/4"; 17 x 12 cm). Contemporary limp vellum using material from a fifteenth-century manuscript leaf, raised bands to spine. Some soiling and staining, a few faint annotations and markings in later hand, chipping to spine and corners, pastedowns loose. Title page printed in red and black with woodcut architectural border. Moderate toning to interior, faint dampstaining in places, light soiling and edgewear to leaves at front and rear of text block, early annotations, signatures and doodles to endleaves. A good copy of a rare imprint. $2,500. * Born and educated at the University of Bologna, the leading law school of the medieval era, Belviso was a professor of law at the University of Naples. First printed in 1515, Practica Iudiciaria, a treatise on criminal law and procedure, is his best-known work. (However, his authorship is disputed in recent scholarship.) It went through several editions, the last one in 1580. The 1545 imprint is identical in format and pagination to four Lyon imprints printed in 1526, 1529, 1535 and 1543. Among the doodles in our copy are signatures of an "Andreas Georgio Tabilion Locana" and two inscriptions saying the book is intended "for use" by Locana "and his friends." The content of the manuscript leaf used for the binding is obscured by its condition. OCLC locates no copies, OPAC SBN locates 2 (Biblioteca del Seminario, Padua; Biblioteca Diocesana, Todi). Not in Adams, Baudrier or the Universal Short-Title Catalogue.