Medieval Notary Manuscripts & Law Books

FOUNDATION OF FORENSIC MEDICINE

Zacchia, Paolo.Pauli Zacchiae ... Quaestiones medico-legales : accedunt interpolationes & auctaria ex novis inventis & observationibus recentiorum auctorum [...]. Venetiis (Venice): apud Simonem Occhi, 1789.

3 parts bound in two volumes in folio, contemporary printer's paperboards.

Fourth edition of one of the founding text of forensic medicine.

Paolo Zacchia (1584-1659), a Papal physician, was one of the founder of medical jurispridence.

References: OCLC locates no copy of this edition in US libraries.

THE FATHER OF JURIDICAL HUMANISM

ZASIUS, ULRICH. De Actionibus. Lugduni, sub scuto coloniensis, 1551.

8vo (162 x 110 mm), contemporary stiff vellum, pp. [24] 396 [20].
Text in Roman and Italuc type.

A famous work on trial law, composed by the renowned German jurist, one of the fathers of the new philological approach to Justinians’s Digest known as “Juridical Humanism”.

Provenance: Some not identified annotation of a contemporary hand.

References: Baudrier V, 222; Stintzing, Zasius 351.
OCLC locates 17 copies worldwide and 4 complete copies in Italy (ICUU).

ZILETTI, GIAMBATTISTA. Consiliorum seu Responsorum ad causas criminales recens editorum ex eccellentiss. quibusque iureconsultis et veteribus et nouis, diligentia, labore, et industria Io. Baptistae Zileti ... collectorum. Tomus primus \-secundus!. Et is alius quam qui in lucem antea missus est, cum summarijs et repertorio omnium quae ad praxim necessaria sunt, per eundem Ziletum illustratus. Venetiis apud Bernardinum Zilettum et fratres , 1566-1571.

2 volumes in small folio (300 x 207 mm), ancient vellum from a 15th century palimpsest, handwritten titles at three raised bands spine, ff. [42], 208; [44], 212.
Woodcut head-letters.

Roman type, text on two columns.

A large full-page woodcut at verso of title-page of the second volume.

Scarce first edition of a famous collection of Consilia on criminal law, containing the advices of all the most important Medieval authors (Bartolo, Baldo, Jacopo da Belviso, Raffaele Fulgosio, Butrigario, Riminaldi) and also many counsels of unpublished authors. A precious source.

References: CNCE (five copies).

Reference: OCLC locates 7 copies worldwide and 10 complete copies in Italy (ICUU).