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A COLLECTION OF THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE LEGAL CASES AND DECISIONS OF...
A COLLECTION OF THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE LEGAL CASES AND DECISIONS OF THE ROMAN SACRED ROTE
Stato Pontificio, Rota Romana. Decisiones rotae Romanae Francisci card. Mantica a Germanico Mantica [...] in lucem editae [...]. Romae: ex typographia Camerae Apostolicae, 1618.
4to, 220x160 mm; contemporary full vellum binding, with calligraphic title at a flat spine; pp. [88], 598, [2].
Title page in red and black types, with engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee cardinal Scipione Borghese, with a cardinal's hat; woodcut at colophon (an eagle holding a cloth with claws). Two-column layout.
Dedicace by Germano Mantica to cardinal Scipione Borghese.
A collection of three hundred and seventy-five legal texts prepared for the Tribunal between February 1587 to May 1596, including indexes, compiled by the Card. Francesco Mantica and published after his death by his nephew Germanico.
Another edition of this work appeared in the same year in Venice.
Francesco Mantica (Venzone, 20 marzo 1534 – Roma, 28 gennaio 1614) was an Italian cardinal and a jurist .
Germanico Mantica (m. 1639), nephew of Francesco Mantica, Abbot, was bishop of Famagusta.
References: IT\ICCU\RMGE\000709. OCLC, 48083914 (2 copies in USA, 1 copy in Switzerland) and 630423004 (2 copies in Germany).