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JUSTINIANUS (483-565). Institutiones. With the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 27 December 1486.
Median 2° (308x212mm). Collation: a-b10 c8 d6 e-f10 g12 h10 i6 k8 (a1 blank, a2r prologue, a3r boooks 1-3, h1r book 4, k7r colophon, k7v-8 blank). 89 (of 90, without final blank) leaves. 80-81 lines, double column, printed in red and black. Type: 7:92(85)G (text), 13a:64G (commentary). 3-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Worming in first 3 leaves with loss, patched on first blank and in margin of a2, small wormholes affecting a few letters elsewhere.) Nineteenth-century sheep-backed patterned paper over pastepaper boards (corners bumped). Provenance: numerous early marginal annotations; Joachim Entzmüller, Reichsgraf Windhaag, with Ex Bibiliotheca Windhagiana, and engraved armorial bookplate (partly worm-eaten).
Justinian wrote the Institutes as an elementary manual, giving an outline of law, and it is the text with which students for centuries began their study of Roman law. HC *9519; GW 7614; BMC II, 430 (IB. 7368); Goff J-529; Polain(B) 2352; IDL 2792; IGI 5510; BSB C-651
Median 2° (308x212mm). Collation: a-b10 c8 d6 e-f10 g12 h10 i6 k8 (a1 blank, a2r prologue, a3r boooks 1-3, h1r book 4, k7r colophon, k7v-8 blank). 89 (of 90, without final blank) leaves. 80-81 lines, double column, printed in red and black. Type: 7:92(85)G (text), 13a:64G (commentary). 3-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Worming in first 3 leaves with loss, patched on first blank and in margin of a2, small wormholes affecting a few letters elsewhere.) Nineteenth-century sheep-backed patterned paper over pastepaper boards (corners bumped). Provenance: numerous early marginal annotations; Joachim Entzmüller, Reichsgraf Windhaag, with Ex Bibiliotheca Windhagiana, and engraved armorial bookplate (partly worm-eaten).
Justinian wrote the Institutes as an elementary manual, giving an outline of law, and it is the text with which students for centuries began their study of Roman law. HC *9519; GW 7614; BMC II, 430 (IB. 7368); Goff J-529; Polain(B) 2352; IDL 2792; IGI 5510; BSB C-651