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The edition page is missing: Apud Ioannem Vignon, Aureliopoli (Geneva) 1604
3 volumes in 1 vintage bound full calfskin volume.
Large in-8°, full marbled calfskin binding, spine with 5 raised bands with ornate boxes, red edges.
First part 127, 1976 column pages (4) begins with indexes. Index Paragraphorum Index Omnium Legum and Index Lgum totius Codicis.
Second part Codicis Iustiniani 916 pages
Third part; Authenticae SEV Novellae Constitutiones 448 column pages
- New edition, after the first published in 1583.
- Titles of the 3 title pages present (see Photos)
- Blunt corners, friction.
- Crumpled main title page with creases.
Paper more or less browned with pale traces of wetting at the top of the pages.
Verse mark on the top of the do (see photo and at the end of the book on the bottom left on pagination 482 to 540)
Dyonisus Gothofridus the Elder was a famous jurisconsult courted by all the courts of Europe, of Protestant faith, the edition of the Corpus Juris civilis of Justinian was his great work and remained the legal reference for more than a century, both for the bar only for teaching. 67466067
