![JUSTINIANUS (c. 482-565). Digestum novum [with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius and Summaria according to Bartolus de Saxoferrato and Paulus de Castro], edited by ?Hieronymus Clarius. Venice: Bernardinus Stagninus, de Tridino, 1494.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14301_0065_000(justinianus_digestum_novum_with_the_glossa_ordinaria_of_accursius_and024325).jpg?w=1)
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JUSTINIANUS (c. 482-565). Digestum novum [with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius and Summaria according to Bartolus de Saxoferrato and Paulus de Castro], edited by ?Hieronymus Clarius. Venice: Bernardinus Stagninus, de Tridino, 1494.
A large, fresh copy of the second, expanded edition, with misimpressions on the final two leaves, normally blank, showing both that the red printing preceded the black but also the frugal use of paper. The Digest, the principal part of Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis. was the work of a committee of 16 lawyers headed by the Emperor’s quaestor, Tribonian. Three years were spent in examining the writings of classical Roman jurists and abridging, ordering and gathering together the material into the Digest, which was made statute in December 533. It was largely the recovery in Pisa around 1070 of a 6th-century manuscript of the Digest (now Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana) that stimulated the subsequent development of law studies. Holdings of this edition are few outside Austria and Germany, including only one copy in the US and none in Britain or France. H *9592; GW 7718; BSB-Ink C-592; not in Goff.
Royal folio (429 x 285mm). Printed in red and black, double column with a surround of Accursius’s gloss, printer’s device on O2v in red. Major initials in blue, with two in interlocking red and blue, some deckle edges, the final quire here contains misprinted sheets so that the final two leaves, normally blank, contain B2r/red-printing for A2v on O3 and A2r/B2v on O4 (foremargin of title a little short and with two minor tears – one repaired, ff. 203-205 with scorch marks, infrequent light marginal soiling). Contemporary south German blind-panelled pigskin over wood boards, covers with central design of a cross within fillets and repeat pineapple tool at borders, plain spine with old paper labels, two chased metal clasps (some rubbing and soiling, small stains). Provenance: occasional marginalia and underlining in an early hand -- Bolzano, Franciscan convent (inscription).
A large, fresh copy of the second, expanded edition, with misimpressions on the final two leaves, normally blank, showing both that the red printing preceded the black but also the frugal use of paper. The Digest, the principal part of Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis. was the work of a committee of 16 lawyers headed by the Emperor’s quaestor, Tribonian. Three years were spent in examining the writings of classical Roman jurists and abridging, ordering and gathering together the material into the Digest, which was made statute in December 533. It was largely the recovery in Pisa around 1070 of a 6th-century manuscript of the Digest (now Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana) that stimulated the subsequent development of law studies. Holdings of this edition are few outside Austria and Germany, including only one copy in the US and none in Britain or France. H *9592; GW 7718; BSB-Ink C-592; not in Goff.
Royal folio (429 x 285mm). Printed in red and black, double column with a surround of Accursius’s gloss, printer’s device on O2v in red. Major initials in blue, with two in interlocking red and blue, some deckle edges, the final quire here contains misprinted sheets so that the final two leaves, normally blank, contain B2r/red-printing for A2v on O3 and A2r/B2v on O4 (foremargin of title a little short and with two minor tears – one repaired, ff. 203-205 with scorch marks, infrequent light marginal soiling). Contemporary south German blind-panelled pigskin over wood boards, covers with central design of a cross within fillets and repeat pineapple tool at borders, plain spine with old paper labels, two chased metal clasps (some rubbing and soiling, small stains). Provenance: occasional marginalia and underlining in an early hand -- Bolzano, Franciscan convent (inscription).
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