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Lyon: Sumptibus Ioannis Pillehotte, 1658. 4 vols. (illustrator). Lyon: Sumptibus Ioannis Pillehotte, 1658. 4 vols. Set of the Collected Works of "The Outstanding Representative of Humanism in Roman Law" with an Interesting Scottish Provenance Cujas, Jacques [1522-1590]. Scot, Alexander [1560-1616], Notes. Masson, Jean-Papire [1544-1611], Additional Content. Opera Omnia quae Prodierunt ipso Authore vel Superstite, Vel Defuncto: In Quatuor Volumina Distincta. Hac Repetita Editione ad Verum Auctoris Dictatum Collata, & Innumeris quibus Scatebant Erroribus, Ex Manuscripto Fidelissimo, Vindicata & Restituta, & Multis Praelectionibus Quae in Manuscriptis Adhuc Sunt Repertae, Per Appendicem Aucta & Locupletata. Lyon: Sumptibus Ioannis Pillehotte, Sub Signo Nominis Iesu, 1614. Four volumes. Complete. Main text in parallel columns. Copperplate portrait of Cujas and woodcut table of consanguinity (in Volume I). Folio (14-3/4" x 9-1/2"; 37.5 x 24 cm). **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION.** Contemporary vellum, blind rules and large central arabesques to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and early hand-lettered titles to spines, holes for ties to fore-edges. Light rubbing, soiling and some minor stains, faint spotting to rear board of Volume III, spine ends and corners bumped, a few corners worn, front joints of Volumes I-III starting, nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of the Aytoun (Ayton or Aiton) family of Inchdairnie, to front pastedowns of all volumes except Volume III, where it is on the rear pastedown. Title pages printed in red and black. Light toning to interiors, light soiling, edgewear and creases to endleaves, preliminaries and final text leaves, faint staining and minor worming in a few places, front free endpaper of Volume III affixed to its front pastedown, struck-through signature (?) to front free endpaper of Volume II. A very good set overall. $2,500. * Second and final edition of this compilation, which was first published in 1606. With an introduction, works list and biography of Cujas by Masson. Cujas, a professor of law at the universities of Cahors, Bourges, Valencia and Turin, was the preeminent authority on Roman law in his day. He recovered and published the Codex Theodosianus and Basilica and published several commentaries and editions. One of these, Observationum et Emendationum Libri XXVIII (1556-1595), which is part of.

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