Medieval Notary Manuscripts & Law Books

A FOUNDING TEXT ON ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFITS

GIGANTI, GIROLAMO. Tractatus de pensionibus ecclesiasticis. Causarum patronis. Et in ecclesiastico foro versantibus ceterisque legum & canonum studiosis. ... Continens in se questiones centum elucubratum per ... D. Hieronimum Gigantem Forosemproniensem. Venetiis: impressum, mandato & expensis dominorum Francisci & Michaelis de Tramezinis, a Nicolao Bascarino, mense Maio 1542 (Venice: Tramezzino, May 1542).

4to, contemporary full limp vellum with handwritten titles on spine, ff. [24], 151, [1].
Two large-size woodcut printer’s devices, text in Roman and Italic types.

Rare first edition of a founding reference texts on ecclesiastical benefits printed in the sixteenth century.

Far from works of mere compilation, the Tractatus is characterized by a considerable moral profile, with a complete description of the abuse by the pensions’ beneficiaries and of means to control and repress them.

Girolamo Gigante, prominent canonist and writer, was born in Fossombrone, to the west of Ancona, around the end of the fifteenth century, and studied in Perugia and Bologna. From 1522 he acted as agent of the Duke of Urbino in Venice, and from 1541 he was ecclesiastical adviser to the Republic of Venice.
He was also the author of a remarkable treatise on Crimen Lesae Majestatis, which received considerable praise from a master of the Renaissance’s criminal law as Tiberio Deciani.

References: CNCE 20971. OCLC 28793653.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE TREATISE ON PRICES AND VALUE ACCORDING TO THE CIVIL CODE

Giussani, Giulio Cesare. Tractatus de precio et aestimatione secundum ius civile divisus in libros quatuor. Adsunt summaria atque index locupletissimus. Auctore Iulio Caesare Glusiano [...]. Mediolani [Milano]: apud Hieronymum Bordonum [Bordone], 1615.

8vo, 150x98 mm, contemporary full vellum binding, handwritten title at spine, green color sprinkled edges; pp. [24], 220, [4]. Last leaves blank. Editorial woodcut device at title-page (two hands coming out from the clouds: the left one with a palm tree, the other with a stick; motto in the center: "In labore solamen"; in the frame: "Iustus ut palma florebit").

References: IT\ICCU\MILE\007122 (5 copies). OCLC, 10166468 (one copy in USA, at the Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library, Boston) and 60643225 (one copy in USA, at the University of Kansas Archives, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence).

THE LAW COUNSELS OF THE COUNSELOR OF THE KING OF ARAGON

Grammaticus, Thomas. Consilia, vota seu iuris responsa, summa nunc demum fide castigata & excusa. Accessit in totum corpus. Nouus index uagus & bipartius, cum fidelis, tum copiosus. Venetiis , apud Dominicum Lilium, 1557.

2 parts in a volume 8vo (157x107 mm), contemporary limp vellum with handwritten title at spine, ff. 240, [40].
Two separate title-pages, text on two columns, Roman type.

Fine Venetian edition of the «Counsels» by the Neapolitan lawyer Tommaso Grammatico, contains the same 70 consilia as published in Venice in 1542 under title Allegationes et consilia tam in causis criminalibus quam fiscalibus.
The index is by Giovanni Battista Ziletti.

Tommaso Grammatico was a renowned lawyer under the reign of Ferdinand II of Aragona in the south of Italy. He was created judge by Federico II of Aragon in 1496, fiscal lawyer in 1506 and Royal Counselor in 1535.

Provenance: Some not identified contemporary annotations.

References: CNCE 25840. OCLC 29955386.
V. Ventura, Profilo di Tommaso Grammatico giurista e letterato in «Scritti di St. del Dir. Ital. offerti dagli allievi a Domenico Maffei», edited by M. Ascheri, Padova, 1991, pp. 353-375.

EXCESSIVELY SCARCE BAN ON THE TAXES OF MEAT IN THE DUCHY OF MODENA

Grida generale sopra il Datio delle Carni per tutto lo Stato di S.A.S Modena, Soliani, 1673.

Scarce, unsophisticated and untrimmed document about the taxes on Meat in Baroque era in North-Italy.

References: Not in OPAC and ICCU, not in OCLC. Apparently the only surviving copy.

RARE BAN ON THE TAXES ON GRAPPA IN THE DUCHY OF MODENA
ONLY ANOTHER KNOWN COPY

Grida sopra l'appalto dell'acqua vita da vendersi al minuto In Modena : per Bartolomeo Soliani stampator ducale, 1695.


Rare, unsophisticated and untrimmed document about the taxes on Grappa in Baroque era in North-Italy.

References: Only a copy in ICCU, at Biblioteca internazionale La Vigna (Vicenza). Not in OCLC: out of Italy, no copies in worldwide public libraries.

HEINECKE'S LESSONS OF EXCHANGE LAW, TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ESSAY ON EXCHANGE INSTITUTIONS IN THE ROMAN ERA

Heinecke, Johann Gottlieb. Elementa juris cambialis commoda auditoribus methodo adornata a Jo. Gottlieb. Heineccio, Jc. et antecess. Roboreti [Rovereto]: sumptibus Balleonianis, 1746.

12mo (168x100 mm), original paper binding; pp. [6], 99, [3 b.]; xylographic illustration at title-page; xylographic initials and ornaments.
At leaf D7 the work is followed by another work, with its own title-page: Georgii Henrici Ayreri [...] De cambialis instituti vestigiis apud romanos diatribe.

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (Heinecke) (September 11, 1681 – August 31, 1741) was a German jurist from Eisenberg, Thuringia. His chief works were: Antiquitatum Romanarum jurisprudentiam illustrantium syntagma (1718); Historia juris civilis Romani ac Germanici (1733); Elementa juris Germanici (1735); Elementa juris naturae et gentium (1737; Eng. trans. by Turnbull, 2 vols, London, 1763).

Georg Heinrich Ayrer (March 15, 1702 in Meiningen; 28 April 1774 in Göttingen) was a German jurist.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.

References: IT\ICCU\MILE\003412. OCLC, 41222511 (6 copies in USA).

THE MODERN THEORY OF NATURAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, ACCORDING TO ENLIGHTENMENT'S NEW PERSPECTIVES

Heinecke, Johann Gottlieb. Jo. Gottlieb Heinecii Elementa juris naturae et gentium, commoda auditoribus methodo adornata. Editio caeteris italicis longe auctior & castigatior. Neapoli: prostant Venetiis: apud Jo. Baptistam Pasquali, 1776.

8vo (182x118; half sprinkled calf, with marbled paper at boards, gilt title on a green leather label at spine; pp. 504; xylographic printer device at title-page, with motto: Litterarum felicitas.

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (Heinecke) (September 11, 1681 – August 31, 1741) was a German jurist from Eisenberg, Thuringia. His chief works were: Antiquitatum Romanarum jurisprudentiam illustrantium syntagma (1718); Historia juris civilis Romani ac Germanici (1733); Elementa juris Germanici (1735); Elementa juris naturae et gentium (1737; Eng. trans. by Turnbull, 2 vols, London, 1763).

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.

References: IT\ICCU\LO1E\040685 (2 copies). OCLC, 797901699.

TWO CORNERSTONES IN THE HISTORY OF CIVIL LAW, ACCORDING TO THE JUSTINIAN'S CODES, EXAMINED WITH THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND AXIOMATIC METHOD DEVELOPED BY HEINECKE

Heinecke, Johann Gottlieb.
[1.]: Io. Gottlieb Heineccii [...] Elementa iuris ciuilis secundum ordinem institutionum, commoda auditoribus methodo adornata. Accedunt variorum notae et obseruationes. Editio noua italica ceteris longe auctior et emendatior. Pars I. [-II.]. Mediolani (Milano): apud Ioseph Galeatium Regium typographum, 1779.
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[2.]: Io. Gottlieb Heineccii, ic. et antecessoris Elementa iuris civilis secundum ordinem pandectarum commoda auditoribus methodo adornata. Tomus primus [-secundus]. Editio caeteris italicis [...] collata. Papiae (Pavia): in Typographeo R & I. Monasterii S. Salvatoris prasid. rei litterar. permit, 1783.

[1.]: 8vo (192x114; half sprinkled calf, with marbled paper at boards, gilt title on a leather label at spine; 2 parts bound in 1 v.; pp. XIV, 350, [2]; [2], 353-640; xylographic end-pieces.
[2.]: 8vo (192x122; half sprinkled calf, with marbled paper at boards, gilt title on a leather label at spine; 2 vols; pp. XXXXIII, [1], 383, [1]; XXXV, [1], 460 [i.e. 480]. Page 480 misnumbered 460. Xylographic vignette at title-page.

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (Heinecke) (September 11, 1681 – August 31, 1741) was a German jurist from Eisenberg, Thuringia. His chief works were: Antiquitatum Romanarum jurisprudentiam illustrantium syntagma (1718); Historia juris civilis Romani ac Germanici (1733); Elementa juris Germanici (1735); Elementa juris naturae et gentium (1737; Eng. trans. by Turnbull, 2 vols, London, 1763).

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.
[2.]: Many inset-supplement leaves in the text, some left blank and others with handwritten study annotations.

References:
[1.]: IT\ICCU\PARE\018637 (10 copies). OCLC, 797465602.
[2.]: IT\ICCU\TO0E\033562 (5 copies). OCLC, 154639863 (one copy in New Zealand, at the Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Library).

HEINECKE'S ESSAYS ON CIVIL LAW, TOGETHER WITH OTHER AUTHORS' WORKS: THOMAISIUS'S COMMENTARY ON THE HISTORY OF LAW AND STRUVE'S BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LAW BOOKS

Heinecke, Johann Gottlieb. Io. Gottl. Heineccii [...] Recitationes in Elementa iuris civilis secundum ordinem Institutionum accedunt Io. Christ. Gottl. Heineccii [...] Commentarius de vita, fatis ac scriptis b. parentis auctior emendatior. Christiani Thomasii delineatio historiae juris nec non Burc. Gottelf. Struvii bibliotheca juris selectissima cum notis Hen. Contelmanni [...]. Tom. I. [-II.]. Ticini Regii (Pavia): in typographeo Monast. S. Salvatoris, 1780-1781.

in-8°, 204x134 mm), contemporary paperboards, with handwritten title on label glued at spines; 2 vols; pp. 501 [i.e. 499], [1]; 231, [1], III, [1], 29, [1], [2], 60. Some xylographic illustrations in the text.

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (Heinecke) (September 11, 1681 – August 31, 1741) was a German jurist from Eisenberg, Thuringia. His chief works were: Antiquitatum Romanarum jurisprudentiam illustrantium syntagma (1718); Historia juris civilis Romani ac Germanici (1733); Elementa juris Germanici (1735); Elementa juris naturae et gentium (1737; Eng. trans. by Turnbull, 2 vols, London, 1763).

Migliorotto Maccioni (1732-1811), graduated in utroque iure, was an Italian jurist and professor of civil law at Pisa.

Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) was a German jurist and philosopher.

Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (1671-1738) was a German polymath and librarian.

Heinecke, Johann Christian Gottlieb (1718–1791), son of Johann Gottlieb, was a Prussian court counselor and professor of the Academy of Liegnitz.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.

References: IT\ICCU\PARE\020302. OCLC, 797546953 and 642325852 (one copy in Germany and one copy in Spain).

SECOND EDITION OF HOTMAN'S COMMENTARY ON CIVIL LAW

Hotman, François. Commentarius in quatuor libros Institutionum Iuris Civilis. Secunda editio. Lugduni (Lyon), Gryphius, 1567.

Folio, 18th century calf binding (spine restored), pp. [12], 575, [17] .

Second edition of the renowned commentary of tte French jurist on Justinian's «Institutions».François Hotman was author of fundamental juridical works asAnti Tribonianus and Francogallia, and a great protagonist of the cultural and political debate of his age.

Provenance: 1. Contemporary inscription Francisci de Pomat and large calligraphic signature De Pomatat the upper blank margin of title-page. The owner also indicates the date of the purchase: 20 August 1634.
2. Other previous crossed out inscription Bell (?).

References: OCLC 633730148.

THE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH LANGUAGE OF JUSTINIAN'S PANDECTS

Hulot, Henry; Berthelot, Jean-François. Les Cinquante Livres du Digeste ou des Pandectes de l'Empereur Justinien. Metz, Behmer et Lamort, 1803-1804.

6 volumes out of 7, 4to (265x215 mm), original blue paperboard, pp. 28, 597, [3, last blank] at first volume, pp. 603, [1] at second volume, pp. 552, [20] at third, pp. 607, [5, last blank] at forth, pp. 567, [9], at fifth, pp. 616, [4] at sixth. Untrimmed.

First fundamental complete edition in French of Digestus and Pandectae.

Henri Hulot started for the first time the French translation of Corpus Iuris Civilis , the source of the Roman Law, targeting to publish in 1764 the Institutiones : this never happened because of the aversion by his colleagues at the Paris Law University. The edition was printed only from 1803 thanking the perseverance of Behmer and Lamort.

Henry Hulot (1732-1775) was a French Lawyer. When he decided to start the study of the roman law he was disbarred for having abandoned the forensic career. He spent his academic life translating the Digestus, translation never published during his life.

Jean-François Berthelot (18-19th century) was lawyer in the same University of Hulot, advisor of the parliament and of the King as well as law teacher in Gard

The present translation is still used in France and it was chosen as a reference work to be published on-line, Cfr. http://www.histoiredudroit.fr/ corpus_iuris_civilis.html.

References: ICCU, IT\ICCU\NAPE\000896. OCLC, 23099285

[1.]: HUNTING IN PAPAL STATES
APPARENTLY THE ONLY KNOWN COPY

[2.]: WOLF HUNTING IN PAPAL STATES
ONLY TWO KNOWN COPIES

[1.]: Papal States - Ministry Council - cardinal Galleffi (Camerlengo). Editto. Pier Francesco per la misericordia di Dio vescovo di Albano, Card. Galleffi, della S.R.C. camerlengo. Roma: presso Vincenzo Poggioli stampatore camerale, 1826.
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[2.]: Apostolic Chamber - cardinal Galleffi (Camerlengo). Notificazione intorno ai premj per la uccisione dei lupi pubblicata dall'Emo e Rmo Signor card. Galleffi camerlengo di S.R. Chiesa li 16. settembre 1828. Roma: nella stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apost., 1828.

[1.]: A poster (580x450 mm), two column text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Leo XII, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Galleffi's arms.

[2.]: 4to (290x205 mm), unbound; pp. 5, (3, b.); text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Leo XII, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Galleffi's arms.

[2.]: Notification regarding the awards for wolf hunting in Papal States.

[1.]: Edict on a new general regulamentation of hunting in Papal States, decided by Pope Leo XII.

The text begins with the words: La conservazione della specie de' quadrupedi e volatili utili, oramai per comun lamento diminuita di molto a cagione degli arbitrarj e distruttivi modi di cacciare [...]. Signer and date at bottom ([Roma] dato in Camera Apostolica li 10. Luglio 1826.).

Pietro Francesco Galleffi (Galeffi) (1770–1837) was an Italian Cardinal. During the Napoleonic period, in 1798, he was expelled from Rome. He was created Cardinal in 1803. Then he was archbishop of Damasco in 1819, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica from 1820, Bishop of Albano in 1820, Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina in 1830, Camerlengo from 1824 to 1837.

Pope Leo XII (1760–1829), born Annibale Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 28 September 1823 to his death in 1829.

References: [1.]: The document is not in ICCU, which quotes a book on this edict, published on the same day (ICCU\RMSE\092438, available in the Biblioteca consorziale di Viterbo); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently the only extant copy worldwide.
[2.]: ICCU\RMSE\092569 (an only copy registered in the Biblioteca consorziale di Viterbo); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently one of the only two extant copies worldwide.