3 Law Books Dated 1575/1579/1586 Incredible Collection Of Historic Scarce Books

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3 Law Books Dated 1575/1579/1586 Incredible Collection Of Historic Scarce Books. 1579 edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). • Title: Corpus Iuris Civilis (in red and black ink, classic for the era). The Corpus Juris Civilis is the foundational collection of Roman law compiled under Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century CE. Please review all pictures. Condition fair to good. There appears to be no missing pages and the pages themselves are in pretty good condition. Please contact me if you have any questions. Need any kind of clarification or more pictures? I use Artificial Intelligence via Grok to research. Book 1 16” X 11” X 3” 8 lbs Almost 200 pages 1575 printed edition of the Volumen (or Volumen locupletius quam antehac), a key part of the Corpus Juris Civilis compiled under Emperor Justinian.  Key Details: • Title: Volumen LOCVPLETIVS QVAM ANTEHAC (“A volume more richly supplied than before”). The subtitle explains it contains the last three books of the Codex (Code of Justinian), the Novellae (Novels/constitutions), Feuda (feudal law), and many other texts detailed on the next page. • Publication: Lugduni (Lyon, France), 1575, by the Compagnie des libraires (a consortium of Lyon printers).  • Date & Printer’s Mark: The ornate woodcut illustration features a rampant lion (a common emblem in legal printing) within a decorative frame with cherubs/putti, architectural elements, and the year 1575 at the base. Context: This is a Renaissance-era edition of Roman civil law texts, widely studied in European universities. Lyon was a major center for printing high-quality legal books in the 16th century. These Volumen editions often bundled the Institutiones, parts of the Digest, Codex, and Novels for law students and practitioners. Multiple similar editions were printed in Lyon around this time (e.g., 1562, 1567, 1575).  The page shows classic 16th-century printing style: red-and-black ink, humanist Latin typography, and elaborate woodcut borders. It’s a beautiful example of early modern legal scholarship! Book 2 13” X 9” X 2” 4 lbs (Secundus Tomus) of a 1586 collection of legal treatises by Sebastiano Medici (also known as Sebastianus Medicis Florentini).  Key details: • Author: Sebastiano Medici, a Florentine jurist (lawyer), Knight of the Order of Saint Stephen (Equitis Sancti Stephani), and Apostolic Protonotary. • Title: Tractatuum Sebastiani Medicis Florentini — a multi-volume work compiling various legal treatises (tractatus) on topics like: • Rules of law (De Regulis Iuris) • Fortuitous cases (De Fortuitis Casibus) • Death dissolves all things (Mors Omnia Solvit) • Burials and funerals • Compensation, novation, acceptance, hunting/fishing, etc. • Publication: Printed in Venice (Venetiis) by Bernardum Iuntam (Bernardo Giunta, part of the famous Giunta printing family) in 1586 (MDLXXXVI). Historical Significance of Sebastiano Medici’s Tractatuum (1586 Venice Edition) Sebastiano Medici (c. 1545–1595), also known as Sebastianus Medicis Florentini, was a prominent Florentine jurist, canonist, and ecclesiastical administrator in the late Renaissance. He held a doctorate utroque iure (in both civil and canon law) from the University of Pisa (1568), served as a secular priest, vicar general for high-ranking cardinals, and later as auditor of the Rota (ecclesiastical court) in Macerata. His collected legal treatises, including this second volume printed in Venice by Bernardum Iuntam (Bernardo Giunta) in 1586, represent a significant contribution to post-Tridentine legal scholarship.  • Format: This appears to be the second volume of a two-volume set of his collected works. Sebastiano Medici was a 16th-century Italian legal scholar whose works were influential in civil and canon law during the late Renaissance/early modern period. These kinds of tractatus collections were common in legal scholarship at the time, often serving as comprehensive reference books for lawyers and scholars.  The ornate engraving in the center features a coat of arms (likely Medici-related, with the fleur-de-lis) surrounded by cherubs, foliage, and decorative elements — typical of high-quality Venetian printing of that era. You can find digitized versions of this or similar volumes on sites like Archive.org or Google Books. It’s a nice piece of legal history! Book 3 8” X 5” X 3” 2 lbs 2000 pages 1579 edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law).  Key Details from the Page: • Title: Corpus Iuris Civilis (in red and black ink, classic for the era). • Editor: A Dionysio Gothofredo I.C. recognitum — Edited/recognized by Dionysius Gothofredus (Denis Godefroy, a prominent French jurist and legal scholar, 1549–1622). • Content: Pandectarum seu Digestorum libri quinquaginta — This is Volume I (Tomus I), containing the 50 books of the Pandects (also called Digests), the massive compilation of Roman jurists’ writings ordered by Emperor Justinian I. • Publication: Lugduni (Lyon, France), M.D.LXXIX (1579). • Additional notes: It mentions an added brief index with 425 rules of law. Historical Context The Corpus Juris Civilis is the foundational collection of Roman law compiled under Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century CE. It consists of: • The Digest/Pandects (case law/extracts from jurists) • The Code (imperial constitutions) • The Institutes (textbook) • The Novels (later laws) Gothofredus (Godefroy) produced influential editions of this work starting in the late 16th century, which became standard references for European legal scholarship during the Renaissance and beyond. This 1579 Lyon printing (likely by a printer like Barthélemy Honorat) is an early example of his work on the Pandects.  The ornate border with classical figures, cherubs, and architectural elements is typical of high-quality 16th-century legal books. It looks like a well-preserved copy—possibly from a collector’s library.