cuiacio giacomo (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. (6) + 1182 + index, 4to, bound in light blind-stamped pigskin over boards, binding dated 1593 (four years earlier than the date of publication) in gilt together with the initials CWK on front board, raised bands and title lettered in ms, all edges blue, the binding is a very elaborate roll-pannelled blind stamping with a figure representing justice with the text 'lustice quisquis picturam lumine cernis' on the front board and 'Castalulit Magnam forme luccencia laudem' under the figure of a man on the back board, some early annotations on first free endpaper, title page and throughout the volume with many relevant under-linings, a name has been excised from the title page with no loss, Provenance: name plate inside front board of John Peters, wear to corners otherwise in very good condition with strong tight hinges, Paltheniana Sumtibus Haeredum Petri Fischeri, Francofurti, 1597. "Jacques Cujas (or Cujacius) (or as he called himself, Jacques de Cujas, 1520 - 4 October 1590) was a French legal expert. He was prominent among the legal humanists or mos gallicus school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval commentators and concentrate on ascertaining the correct text and social context of the original works of Roman law. The life of Cujas was altogether that of a scholar and teacher. In the religious wars which filled all the thoughts of his contemporaries he steadily refused to take any part. Nihil hoc ad edictum praetoris, "this has nothing to do with the edict of the praetor," was his usual answer to those who spoke to him on the subject. His surpassing merit as a jurisconsult consisted in the fact that he turned from the ignorant commentators on Roman law to the Roman law itself. He consulted a very large number of manuscripts, of which he had collected more than 500 in his own library; but, unfortunately, he left orders in his will that his library should be divided among a number of purchasers, and his collection was thus scattered, and in great part lost." This volume not traced in the BL Catalogue.