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LE SUEUR, Nicolas. Leges duodecim tabularum de uniuerso, & priuato Iure... Divisio totius Iuris breuissima ex opere M.T. Ciceronis de legibus, & imperatoris institutione, per eundem accommodata. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1547.
4o (207 x 153 mm). Printer's device on title and colophon leaf. 17th-century limp vellum. Provenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), Scottish bibliophile, author of political works, and member of parliament (signature on inside of lower cover); early marginalia.
FIRST EDITION of the laws of the Twelve Tables, the oldest Roman code of law, as reconstructed and edited by Le Sueur. Drawn up circa 451-450 BC to preserve existing customary law, the surviving text is mostly in a later modernized Latin with a few passages in archaic languages, but it represents the starting point in the development of Roman Law. Attempts have been made since the 16th century to reconstruct it on the basis of quotations in the ancient legal and lay literature. The second part of the book is an analysis of the division of the Roman legal system, adapted by the same editor from Cicero.
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FIRST EDITION of the laws of the Twelve Tables, the oldest Roman code of law, as reconstructed and edited by Le Sueur. Drawn up circa 451-450 BC to preserve existing customary law, the surviving text is mostly in a later modernized Latin with a few passages in archaic languages, but it represents the starting point in the development of Roman Law. Attempts have been made since the 16th century to reconstruct it on the basis of quotations in the ancient legal and lay literature. The second part of the book is an analysis of the division of the Roman legal system, adapted by the same editor from Cicero.