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JUSTINIAN I Institutiones Imperiales, Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Rembolt, 5 December, 1505; and 3 others, Justinian, law etc (4) image 1
JUSTINIAN I Institutiones Imperiales, Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Rembolt, 5 December, 1505; and 3 others, Justinian, law etc (4) image 2
JUSTINIAN I Institutiones Imperiales, Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Rembolt, 5 December, 1505; and 3 others, Justinian, law etc (4) image 3
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JUSTINIAN I
Institutiones Imperiales, Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Rembolt, 5 December, 1505; and 4 others, sixteenth century Justinian law, etc (5)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
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JUSTINIAN I

Institutiones Imperiales, gothic letter, printed in red and black throughout, 2 columns with gloss, woodcut device and woodblock border on title, 2 woodcuts (one double-page, slightly shaved at foot), dark stain to 5 leaves of preliminary matter (including one woodcut), occasional other light soiling or marginal stains, tear touching letters repaired to fol. 124, extensive sixteenth century marginalia in a neat hand throughout, eighteenth century polished calf, g.e., rebacked to match [Adams J618], 4to, Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Rembolt, 5 December, 1505--CUJAS (JACQUES) Paratitla in libros IX Codicis Justiniani repetitae praelectionis, early blind- and gilt-stamped calf, fragment of early manuscript used as binder's waste at end, rebacked with some loss to spine, varnished, 8vo, Paris, Sebastian Nivelle, 1579--GRATIANUS. Decretum [-Sextus liber Decretalium], 2 vol., with the gloss of Joannes Andreae, printed in red and black, woodcut device on titles, corner of title repaired to first volume, old repair to margin of 4 leaves (with loss of signature on cc1) in second volume, non-uniform morocco antique, first volume edges speckled in red, small folio, Paris, [Hugo a Porta and Antonio Vincent], 1559--JUSTINIAN I. Volumen complectitur Novellas constitutiones Justiniani principis post repetitam Codicis prælectionem editas, 3 parts in 1 vol., printed in red and black, printer's device on title, occasional mostly marginal light damp-stains, heavier on pp.337-8 of first part, early calf, lacks covers, small folio, Paris, Hugo a Porta, 1557 (5)

Footnotes

Provenance: First, Robert Wythe, early ownership inscription on title, seemingly in the same hand as the numerous marginal annotations. A possible candidate is Robert Wythe, of Droitwich, c.1523-86), a lawyer who represented Droitwich from its enfranchisement in 1554 to the end of the 1563 Parliament.

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