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JUSTINIANUS

Institutiones Imperiales. Instituten een gerechtich oorspronck der Keyserlicke Rechten
Antwerp
Claes De Grave
(1534, 24 Nov.)
€700 - €900

Small 4to, [2]- C ff. title printed in red and black within elaborate woordcut border. (cut short, shaving a few headlines and printed marginalia, somewhat damp stained, hole in last quire). Modern blind-stamped calf binding, title gilt on spine, marbled end-lvs

Extremely rare Dutch edition, adapted from the 1520 German translation of Justinian by the humanist Thomas Murner (1475-1537). One of the earliest works of Roman law in the vernacular.
Ref. NK 1241 ; not in Adams, Machiels. Slechts 1 ex. in USTC: Conscience-bibliotheek