Medieval Notary Manuscripts & Law Books

NEW POSTAGE AND MAIL EXEMPTIONS IN PAPAL STATES - 1826

[1.]: Papal States - Ministry Council - cardinal Galleffi (Camerlengo). Notificazione. Pier Francesco per la misericordia di Dio vescovo di Albano, cardinale Galeffi, della S.R.C. camerlengo. Roma: presso Vincenzo Poggioli stampatore camerale, 1826.
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[2.]: Papal States - Ministry Council - cardinal Galleffi (Camerlengo). Notificazione. Pier Francesco per la misericordia di Dio vescovo di Albano, cardinale Galeffi, della S.R.C. camerlengo. Roma: presso Vincenzo Poggioli stampatore camerale, 1826.

Two posters {[1.]: 670x470 mm; [2.]: 550x390 mm}; text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Leo XII, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Galleffi's arms.

[1.]: Rare notification regarding the issuing of new postage in Papal States, decided by Pope Leo XII.
The text begins with the words: La Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Leone XII. intenta sempre a rendere meno gravi [...]; then, the text is followed by a tariff. Signer and date at bottom ([Roma] 10 giugno 1826.).

[2.]: Rare notification regarding the exemptions in mail taxes.
The text begins with the words: Gl'interessi dell'Amministrazione Generale delle Poste richiedendo che sia chiusa la via a molti abusi introdotti per la franchigia [...]. Signer and date at bottom ([Roma] 10 giugno 1826.).

Pietro Francesco Galleffi (Galeffi) (1770–1837) was an Italian Cardinal. During the Napoleonic period, in 1798, he was expelled from Rome. He was created Cardinal in 1803. Then he was archbishop of Damasco in 1819, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica from 1820, Bishop of Albano in 1820, Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina in 1830, Camerlengo from 1824 to 1837.

Pope Leo XII (1760–1829), born Annibale Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 28 September 1823 to his death in 1829.

References:
[1.]: ICCU\RMLE\033043 (available in the Biblioteca universitaria Alessandrina, Rome); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently one of the only two extant copies worldwide.

[2.]: ICCU\RMLE\033044 (available in the Biblioteca universitaria Alessandrina, Rome); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently one of the only two extant copies worldwide.

TWO EDICTS WITH PAPAL LAWS:

[1.]: RARE PLAQUETTE OF A PAPAL EDICT ON THE REAL ESTATE TAXES
ONLY A COPY WORLDWIDE, NOT IN USA

[2.]: BUSINESS JUDGMENT REGULATION IN PAPAL STATES - 1836

[1.]: Various authors. Moto proprio della Santità di nostro Signore Pio Papa VII. Segnato li 2. agosto 1804. In cui si prescrivono diversi provedimenti circa l'esigenza della Dativa reale e di altre tasse, tanto Camerali che Comunitative. Esibito negli atti del Nardi Segretario di Camera sotto lo stesso giorno, e pubblicato coll'Editto dell'E.mo, e R.mo Sig. Card. Girolamo Della Porta Prefetto della Sagra Congregazione de' sgravj, e buon governo e di Mons. Ill.mo, e R.mo Tesoriere generale di sua Santità in data de' 12. dello stesso mese, ed anno. Roma: presso Lazzarini Stampatore della Rev. Cam. Apostolica, 1804.
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[2.]: Papal States - Apostolic Chamber - A. Ruspoli. Regolamento pei giudizj economici. Roma: nella stamperia della Reverenda Camera Apostolica, 1836.

[1.]: 4to (cm 28 x 20), unbound, pp. 15, (1, blank). Text in Latin.
Papal coat of arms engraved at title-page.

[2.]: A poster made by two separated parts (total size: cm 90 x 47); two column text in Italian.

[1.]: Very rare edict on fiscal law regarding the Vatican real estate.
This edict - dated August 2, 1804 - follows the previous one - dated March 19, 1801 - with which the Pope had introduced a fiscal semplification providing only two new taxis - the dativa reale and the dativa personale - in place of the too many previous ones. It refers, in particular, to the collection systems on the real estate taxes, the so called dativa reale.

[2.]: New regulation for business judgment in Papal States.
The text begins with the words: I continui reclami che ci pervengono per parte di coloro che hanno vertenze nei nostri tribunali economici [...]. Signer (A. Ruspoli, general auditor of the Apostolic Chamber) and date at bottom ( Roma, dalla Curia Innocenziana solita residenza, li 12 Agosto 1836.).
Document registration number on the first part top left margin: N. 367.

Alessandro Ruspoli, monsignor, was a Sacred Roman Rote auditor and also general auditor of the Apostolic Chamber.

References: [1.]: ICCU\IEIE\008613 (locating only one copy in the Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, Roma); OCLC: 224676941 (a copy located in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Canada); no other copies worldwide.
[2.]: The document is not in ICCU, which quotes a booklet copy of this regulation (ICCU\RMG\0174786); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently the only extant copy worldwide.

THREE SCARCE ROMAN PLAQUETTES REGARDING:
1. THE REGULATION OF CIVIL TRIALS IN ROME
2. THE REGULATION AND RULES OF ECCLESIASTIC TRIBUNALS IN ROME
3. THE TAXES DUE TO ROMAN TRIBUNALS

[1.]: [Proceeding in civil trials] Bernetti, Card. Tommaso. Regolamento di procedura nei giudizj civili. Roma: nella Stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apostolica, 1831.
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[2.]: [Taxes for trials] Bernetti, Card. Tommaso. Regolamento per la disciplina dei giudici e tribunali, e per le tasse giudiziarie. Roma: nella Stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apostolica, 1831.
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[3.]: [Canon Penal Law] Bernetti, Card. Tommaso. Appendice al regolamento organico e di procedura criminale per norma delle curie ecclesiastiche. Roma (Rome): nella Stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apostolica, 1831.

[1.]: 4to (290x210 mm), unbound, pp. 50; text in Italian. Title-page printed in black.

[2.]: 4to (275x200 mm), unbound, covered with an handwritten title-page (Regolamento disciplinare, tasse, e tariffa giudiziaria.); pp. 44, (1, blank). Text in Italian.

[3.]: 4to (290x200 mm); pp. 4; text in Italian. No title-page.

[1.]: Scarce plaquette regarding the regulation of civil trials in Rome.
Text divided in XI titles, anticipated by the preliminary instructions and followed by the index. The date of issuing of this regulation ad its signer is reported at the end of p. 48 , before the index (Dato in Roma dalla Segreteria di Stato il 31 ottobre 1831. T. Card. Bernetti.).

[2.]: Scarce plaquette regarding the regulation of judges' discipline and the taxes due to Roman tribunals for trials.
The text is divided in two parts (Discipline and Judiciary Taxes), each one composed by preliminary instructions and three titles and the Index; at the end there are 3 forms, regarding the General Register for the Chancellery, the form used for trials and some pro-forma letters used in tribunals. The date of issuing of this regulation and its signer are reported at mid of p. 39 , before the index (Dalla Segreteria di Stato, li 15 novembre 1831. T. Card. Bernetti.).

[3.]: Scarce plaquette regarding the regulations and rules of ecclesiastic tribunals in Rome.
The text is divided in two parts and 24 articles (the first part is entitled: Dei Tribunali ecclesiastici e di Giurisdizione mista and the second one: Della immunità ecclesiastica). The date of issuing of this regulation and its signer are reported at the end of p. 4 (Dalla Segreteria di Stato, li 5 novembre 1831. T. Card. Bernetti.).

Tommaso Bernetti (Fermo, 1779-1852), was an Italian cardinal and a Vatican pro-secretary.

References:
[1.]: ICCU\NAP\0099413. OCLC: 81472480 (a copy is located in the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA, USA).
[2.]: ICCU\NAP\0179342. OCLC: 16103394 (2 copies are located in the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA, USA and in the Syracuse University, USA).
[3.]: ICCU\URB\0469675. OCLC: 81176272 (a copy is located in the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA, USA)

THREE EDICTS AND NOTIFICATIONS ON TAXES IN PAPAL STATES:
[1.]: INNOCENT XI'S TAXES - 1678
[2.]: REGISTRATION TAX AND STAMP DUTY REFORM - 1826
[3.]: NEW FISCAL PROCEDURES - 1848

[1.]: Roman Curia - Sacred Congregation of the Council - cardinal Colonna (Prefect). Tassa innocentiana del foro ecclesiastico nelle materie spirituali. Ouero dichiarationi sopraquelle cause, e materie ecclesiastiche, e spirituali, nelle quali nel foro ecclesiastico, & episcopale non si può nè si deue esiggere emolumento alcuno, eccetto quello che si dichiara per il solo cancelliero, con la riforma de gli abusi contrarij. Roma: nella stamperia della Reverenda Camera Apostolica, 1678.
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[2.]: Papal States - Pope Leo XII. Motu proprio della santità di nostro signore papa Leone XII. in data dei 22 novembre 1826 sulla riforma del Registro e Bollo esibito negli atti del Romani segretario di Camera Li 22 Decembre stesso anno Roma: presso Vincenzo Poggioli stampatore camerale, 1826.
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[3.]: Papal States: Ministry of Finance - cardinal Morichini. Notificazione: Carlo Luigi Morichini Arcivescovo di Nisib, della Santità di nostro signore Pio Papa IX. a sua R.C.A. Pro-Tesoriere Generale Ministro delle Finanze. Roma: nella Tipografia Generale della R.C.A., 1848.

[1.]: A poster (560x430 mm); two columns text in Italian; large xylographic head-letter and head-piece with the coat of arms of Pope Innocent XI, amidst St. Peter's and St. Paul's effigies.

[2.]: A large poster made by 3 parts, stitched together with contemporary old strings (total size: 1250x570 mm); three column text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Leo XII.

[3.]: 4to (300x210 mm), unbound; pp. 8; text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Pius IX, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Morichini's arms.

[1.]: Renowned 1678 edict by Pope Innocent XI, that established in detail how much and when it was lawful to earn money while exercising ecclesiastic matters, and which sentences were due for exercising spiritual matter not for free.
The text begins with the words: Essendosi avuto ricorso alla santità di nostro signore Innocenzo XI per molti Vescovi e Arcivescovi [...]. Signed and dated at lower margin ([Roma] 8. Octobris 1678.).

[2.]: The full text of the reform of registration taxes and stamp duties, introduced by Pope Leo XII in Papal States.
The text begins with the words: Desiderando incessantemente di migliorare la condizione de' nostri amati sudditi [...] abbiamo portata la diminuzione delle tasse fin dove era conciliabile colle economiche vedute, e quando queste impedivano di andar più oltre, abbiamo procurato di cercare l'utilità pubblica [...]. Signer (Pope Leo XII) and date at bottom ( [Roma] 22. Novembre 1826.).

[3.]: Notification of enactment of new fiscal procedures (on emphyteusis, real estates, mortgages, fees, etc.) in Papal States.

Federico Ubaldo Baldeschi Colonna (1625 - 1691) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal who was adopted by the noble Colonna family.

TAXES ON FLOUR IN PAPAL STATES - 1822 AND 1830

[1.]: Apostolic Chamber - cardinal Pacca (Camerlengo). Editto dell'Emo, e Rmo Sig. Card. Bartolomeo Pacca camerlengo di Santa Chiesa, lì 28.Decembre 1822., sul dazio del macinato. Roma: presso Vincenzo Poggioli stampatore della R.C.A., 1822.
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[2.]: Apostolic Chamber - cardinal Galleffi (Camerlengo). Notificazione di ordini, prescrizioni e regolamenti sul dazio del macinato e rispettiva procedura pubblicata dall'Emo, e Rmo sig. Card. Galleffi camerlengo [...]. Roma: nella stamperia della rev. camera apostolica, 1830.

[1.]: 4to, 290x210 mm, unbound; pp. 19, (1, b.); text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Pius VII, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Pacca's arms.

[2.]: 4to, 290x210 mm, unbound; pp. 23, (1, b.); text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Pius VIII, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Galleffi's arms.

[1.]: Edict regarding taxes on flour in Papal States.

[2.]: Notification of new procedures regarding taxes on flour, introduced in Papal States.

Bartolomeo Pacca (1756-1844) was an Italian Cardinal, scholar and statesman as Camerlengo and Cardinal Secretary of State.

Pietro Francesco Galleffi (Galeffi) (1770–1837) was an Italian Cardinal. During the Napoleonic period, in 1798, he was expelled from Rome. He was created Cardinal in 1803. Then he was archbishop of Damasco in 1819, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica from 1820, Bishop of Albano in 1820, Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina in 1830, Camerlengo from 1824 to 1837.

References:
[1.]: The document is not in ICCU; a copy is registered in the Archivio storico di Priverno - Latina; not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently one of the only two worldwide extant copies.
[2.]: ICCU\RMLE\034405 (a copy registered in the Biblioteca romana dell'Archivio storico capitolino, Rome; one in the Biblioteca universitaria Alessandrina, Rome, and one in the Biblioteca consorziale di Viterbo); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently one of the only four extant copies worldwide.

FINE SECOND EDITION OF PECK’S COLLECTED WORKS
IN AN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING

FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW

PECK, PIETER. Petri Peckii Ziricaei olim in Academia Lovaniensi ivris professoris in magno senatv belgico consiliarii Opera omnia: in unum volumen redacta, ac de nouo in lucem producta; quorum elenchum altera post epistolam dedicatoriam pagina indicabit. [...]. Antwerp, Jerome and Jean-Baptiste Verdussen, 1666.

Folio, attractive contemporary calf with elegant blind-tooled borders and floral decorations, six raised bands spines, ff. [4], pp. 896, ff. [22].
Printer’s woodcut device at titlepage (printed in black and red). Publisher's dedicatory epistle signed: Hieronymus Verdussen.

SECOND EDITION OF PECK’S COLLECTED WORKS ALSO CONTAINING HIS TREATISES ON INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW, CONSIDERED AMONG THE FIRST WORKS EVER PUBLISHED ON THIS TOPIC.

Petrus Peckius the Elder (born Pieter Peck, Zierikzee, 16 July 1529; died Mechelen, 16 July 1589), also known as Pierre Peckius, was an eminent Netherlandish jurist, one of the first to write about international maritime law and the father of Petrus Peckius the Younger, diplomat and chancellor of Brabant for the Sovereign Archdukes Albert and Isabella. He is best known for a failed attempt to negotiate a renewal of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621.
He was an orthodox Catholic and remained loyal to the Crown during the Eighty Years' War. In 1582 he was appointed a justice in the Great Council, the supreme law court of the Seventeen Provinces, which normally sat in Mechelen but due to the Dutch Revolt was then meeting in the city of Namur.
Peck studied Civil and Canon law at the University of Leuven with Gabriel Mudaeus. He received his doctorate on 27 August 1553. As usual in this era for academic scholars he Latinized his name to Peckius.
He was appointed to the new chair in introductory law (Paratitles) that Philip II of Spain endowed at the university in 1555. Was made ordinarius in Roman Law at the university in 1562. In the same year he succeeded Jean Vendeville, who had left for the University of Douai, as professor of Canon law.

References: IT\ICCU\LIAE\024612. OCLC, 19966814.

IMPORTANT TREATY ON THE LEGAL CONCEPT OF FIDEICOMMISSUM IN MATTERS OF INHERITANCE LAW, THE BEST WORK OF THE ITALIAN JURIST MARCO ANTONIO PELLEGRINI

Pellegrini, Marco Antonio. De fideicommissis praesertim vniuersalibus, tractatus frequentissimus: Marci Antonii Peregrini, iurisconsulti praeclarissimi, [...]. Nunc primum in lucem editus.Cum summarijs, & indice locupletissimo. Venetiis: apud Rubertum Meiettum, 1595.

Folio (316x214 mm), full vellum binding, calligraphic title in black color at a three raised bands spine (rebacked with ancient colored paper); [36], 527 [i.e.531], [1] leaves. Title-page in red and black types, with a big woodcut printer device (two cocks pecking corn grains in a figured frame, with the motto: Non comedetis fruges mendacii). Xylographic initials, head- and final-pieces and ornaments. Text in two columns.

One of the most durable concepts in Roman law, fideicommissum involves situations in which something is committed to somebody's trust. It is central to the law concerning testators, one of the bases of the inheritance law on which was regulated the transfer of family property.

Marco Antonio Pellegrini (Marcus Antonius Peregrinus; 1530-1616), a tax attorney and jurist of the Republic of Venice, was a professor of civil law at the University of Padua and had important public offices for the Republic of Venice, gaining notoriety in the late sixteenth century with several legal treaties published until eighteenth century.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.
Handwritten ownership inscription at title-page, not readable.

References: IT\ICCU\BVEE\021434 and IT\ICCU\RLZE\033641. OCLC, 799509311 and 23150866 (2 copies in USA).

VERY SCARCE TREATISE ON THE LAWS OF PORTUGAL
ONLY ONE COPY IN USA

Pereira De Castro, Gabriel. Gabrielis Pereirae De Castro, ex Senatoribus Supremi Lusitaniae Senatus [ ... ] Tractatus De Manu Regia, Pars Prima [et altera] . Editio Novissima, infinitis penè mendis, quibus scatebat, ad amussim expurgata . Lugduni, Sumptibus Claudii Bourgeat, sub Signo Mercurij Galli, 1673.

2 parts bound in one volume, folio (357x220 mm), full vellum binding, handwritten title on five raised bands spine, ff. [4], pp. 44, 450, ff. [2], pp. 418, f. [1, blank]. Red and black title pages, xylographic headletters and decorations, text on two columns.

Fine engraved Printer Device with Mercury, repeated at titlepages; big heraldic engraving at recto of f. [3] of first volume.

Very rare second enlarged edition of this fundamental treatise on legislation of Portugal , published for the first time in Lisbon in 1622. It is a collection of all the Royal authorities in juridical decisions of Portugal, exactly defining which were the prerogative of the King, also related to Churchmen. The treatise had a fundamental importance; it was brought into use just before the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal, as reference text to legitimate the measure.

Gabriel Pereira De Castro (1571-1632) was a Portuguese scholar, teaching at the famous University of Coimbra. Among his publications they remember another juridical treatise, Monomachia sobre as concordias que fizeram os reis com os prelados de Portugal (1738, posthumous) and an heroic poem in octave, Ulisseia ou Lisboa edificada (1636, even this one posthumous).

Provenance: Erased handwritten Ex-libris at title page.

References: OCLC locates only 3 copies worldwide (one in USA, OCLC 797665368, the Berkeley Law Library copy). Fontana, pars II, col. 79. Not in Sapori that mentiones the 1698 edition (I, 2301).

FIRST ELZEVIER EDITION OF PEREZ COMMENTARY TO JUSTINIAN'S CODE
IN A FASCINATING CONTEMPORARY DUTCH BINDING

Perez, Antonio. Praelectiones in duodecim Libros Codicis Justiniani Imp. Quibus Leges omnses & Authenticae perpetua serie explicantur, mores hodierni inferuntur, & quid sit Iuris Antiqui Novi, & Novissimi, enodatur, & breviter exponitur [...]. Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1653.

Folio (370x230 mm), fine contemporary full stiff vellum ivoire binding (few stains and marks of use) with blind tooled cartouche and double ruled frame at boards, handwritten title at six raised bands spine, edges sprayed in blue ink, pp. [12], 968, [44]. Title page and censorship page printed in black and red, xylographic headletters and decorations at preliminary leaves, text on two columns.

First Elzevir and third absolute edition of Perez commentary to Codex Iuris Civilis.

The work was printed for the first time in 1626. Usually this edition is considered one of the most beautiful by Elzevir, that printed the same work two more times, but only in 4to.

Antonio Perez (1583-1673) was a Spanish jurist and soldier, teaching in Belgium, at the Leuven University. His commentary to Justinian’s Corpus stands out for his personal considerations about the legal history of Spain, Germany, France, and obviously Netherlands.

References: OCLC, 17414754. Dekkers pp. 132/6. Brants Bio. Nat. XVII, 11. Willems 1164.

RARE NIJMEGEN EDITION OF THE MAIN WORK OF THE LOUVAIN JURIST

Perez, Antonio. Institutiones imperiales, erotematibus distinctæ, atque ex ipsis principiis regulisque juris, passim infertis, explicatæ. Editio novissima. Neomagi [Noviomagi=Nijmegen]: apud Andream ab Hoogenhuysen, 1662.

12mo, 140x80 mm, contemporary overlaying vellum, flat spine, pp. [24]-535-[5]. Text in Latin.
Engraved frontispiece. Woodcut device at title page.

Very rare Nijmegen edition of the main work of the Louvain law professor Perez (first published in Louvain, on 1634).

Antonio Perez (Perezius, 1583-1672), born from a Spanish family, was a law teacher at the Louvain University; his commentary on Justinian's Codes are very interesting, because he added his point of view on legal history regarding Spain, Germany, France and Low Countries.

Provenance: An ownership name (unidentified) on lower flyleaf.

References: Only a copy located in ICCU\CFIE\009064 (Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Firenze); OCLC: 494207163; STCN (1: Meermanno). Dekkers 132.3. BN Paris (1). Not in BL London.

VERY RARE EDITION OF POSTIO'S TREATISE ON JUDICIAL SALES

Postio, Ludovico. De Subhastatione Tractatus singularis. Iunctis ad materiam variis Rotae Romanae Decisionibus. Novissime huic editioni accesserunt eiusdem authoris Additamenta ad praedictum Tractatum [...] . Genevae, Sumptibus Ioannis Antonii & Samuelis De Tournes, 1671.[bound with:]
Postio, Ludovico. Additamenta ad Tractatum De Subhastatione [...]. Genevae, Sumptibus Ioannis Antonii & Samuelis De Tournes, 1670.

2 volumes bound togheter, folio (354x213 mm), contemporary stiff vellum, five raised bands spine, with handwritten decorations and titles, pp. [8], 446, [2, blanks], 284, [32]. Red and black titlepage, with big xylographic printer device representing a crown, decorations and headletters at preliminary leaves.

Very rare edition of Postio’s treatise on judicial sales.

In the treatise all the features of an auction are deeply described, as well as the juridical circumstances that force that solution, for example the arrearage. Beside that, he lists all the rules that regulate the sale and the sentences, Decisiones , pronounced in the past, that could represent a reference collection for specific cases. The Decisiones have their own title page dated (1670), but are, for all practical purposes, part of the second volume, following the page numbering.

Ludovico Postio (XVII century) was a famous jurist from Perugia, expert in Civil Law. He was deputy in Ascoli and Macerata, as well as magistrate and auditor at the Holy Rota court. He was also auditor at the Bologna Rota, where he gathered all the sentences in an important collection of Decisiones .

Provenance: Ownership inscription De Giavarolis 1818 and Luigi Pievaroli at verso of first flyleaf.

References: Fontana, pars II, col. 118. Sapori, vol. I, 2386. OCLC locates 7 copies worldwide (two in USA: Yale Law Library and Pritzker Legal Research Center, Northwestern University, School of Law Library, Chicago).

IMPORTANT AND PONDEROUS COMMENTARY TO PANDECTS

(Pothier, Robert-Joseph). Pandectae Justinianeae, in Novum Ordinem digestae: cum legibus, codicis et novellis, quae jus pandectarum confirmant, explicant, aut abrogant [...] Continens Orationem de laudibus celeberrimi viri R. J. Pothier [...] Nova editio, priori correctior et in qua pratermissa & supplenda in suis locis restituuntur . Lugduni, Sumptibus Bernuset et Sociorum, 1782.

Three volumes, folio (390x260 mm), full roan calf binding (lightly worn), six raised bands spine, double morocco labels with gilt titles and decoration an spine sector, red colored edges, end-leaves in marbled paper, ff. [2], pp. 8, ccxliv, 695, [1, blank] for first volume, pp. xiv, 30, 706 [but, 708] for second volume, pp. lxxij, 956, lvj for third.

Exhaustive Pothier's commentary to Justinian's «Pandectae».

The Author, born and lived in Orleans (1699-1772), was a French jurist and magistrate that spent many years of his life studying Justinian, with the idea to coordinate and present in a logical order all the items of the Roman Law. His work, Pandectae Justinianeae , is the results of all his researches, quickly becoming a fundamental work in the study of the Roman Law.

References: OCLC 428013997 and 64164186.

Pothier, Robert Joseph. Le pandette di Giustiniano. In Venezia, Co’ tipi di Antonio Bazzarini eC.°, 1833-1836.

7 out of 8 volumes (232x150 mm), quarter vellum on marbled paper, sepia ink handwritten titles at spine, edges sprayed in brown ink, pp. CXXXIX, 708 for first volume, pp. 989 for second, pp. 950 for third, pp. 992 for fourth, pp. 973 for fifth, pp. 1119 for sixth, pp. 768 for last.

XVIII century edition of the Pandectae, the compilations of Roman Law, edited by ancient jurisconsults on Justinian’s order, forming the second part of his Corpus Iuris Civilis. After an overall review and having adapted them to the current rules, they acquired the status of laws.

Robert Joseph Pothier (1699-1772) was a French jurist, descendant from a dynasty of magistrates, working in the court of Orleans and teacher in the local University. His works rapidly became fundamental in the study of the Roman Law.

References: IT\ICCU\FER\0112328.

THE RELATIONS CHURCH-STATE IN EUROPE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

Pufendorf, Samuel. Introductio ad historiam Europaeam, Latine reddita a Jo. Frid. Cramero. Editio tertia, a multis erroribus emendata, et Compendio historiae Sueciae, aucta. Ultrajecti, ex officina Guilielmi van de Water, 1702.

8vo (166x95 mm), contemporary brown morocco binding, three gilt borders and fleurons at covers, pp. [40], 673, [27].
Full-page engraved portrait of the author at frontispiece; headletters head and tail pieces, finely engraved.

Notable legal-philosophical account of the history of Europe, with a special attention on the relations between Church and States and on the importance of intellectual and religious toleration.

Because of the clarity and comprehensiveness of Pufendorf's works, their intellectual acuity and their polemical edge and consequent notoriety, the work was translated into many European languages.

References: OCLC 7675721.

THE DEBATE ON NATURAL LAW: PUFENDORF'S THEORIES

1. Pufendorf, Samuel. De Jure Naturae et Gentium, Libri octo. Cum integris Commentariis Virorum Clarissimorum Jo. Nicolai Hertii atque Joannis Barbeyraci [...]. Francofurti & Lipsiae, Ex Officina Knochiana, 1744.

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2. Pufendorf, Samuel. Eris Scandica, qua adversus libros de iure naturali et gentium obiecta diluntur. [s.l., s.t.], 1743.

3 works bound in 2 volumes, 4to (245x194 mm), full stiff vellum, sepia ink handwritten title and volume number at spine, edges sprayed in red ink, cloth bookmark, pp. [6], XXXIX, [1], 854, [2, blank] at first volume, pp. [2], 500, [28], 372, [4] at second. Red and black titlepages, portrait of the author engraved at frontispiece, chalcographic vignette at titlepage.

Very rare edition of Pufendorf's theories on Natural Law.

In State and Nature Laws , Pufendorf presents his theory on natural sociability of men, that, in opposition to Hobbes theory, guides them to accept a set of rules given by God, leading to Constitutions written by men. According to that, the treatise seems to be a kind of justification of absolutism.

Samuel Von Pufendorf (Dorfchemnits, 1632-Berlin, 1694), German philosopher and theologian, follower of the doctrine of natural law by Ugo Grozio, focused on harmonizing the first enlightenment thinking to the Cristian theology.

References: 1. OCLC 730119604. 2. OCLC 83159965: only two copies in USA (Yale and University of Michigan Law Library).

A CORNERSTONE OF NATURAL LAW

Pufendorf, Samuel. De officio hominis, et civis secundum legem naturalem libri duo, cum Joannis Barbeyracii notis, & examine. Censurae Leibnitianae in calce operis subjunctae. Ex Gallico in Latinum sermonem transtulit Sebastianus Masson. Editio sexta emendata, et locupletata a Christoph. Frid. Ayrmanno. Francofurti, & Lipsiae, 1775.

4to (190x125 mm), contemporary stiff vellum, gilt title on green label at spine, pp. XXXII, 398, [2, the final is blank].

A cornerstone in Natural Law's thinking, in a particularly sought after edition, enriched with the annotations of Jean Barbeyrac and the observationes (Censurae Leibnitianae) by the renowned German philosopher Gottfried Leibnitz.

References: OCLC 13532675.

FIRST EDITION OF A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF CIVIL LAW PROCEDURE

Panciroli, Guido. Ciuilium iudiciorum praxis sive ordo ivdiciarivs avctore d. Gvido Pancirolo ... Cui accesserunt notae, & additiones Avgvstini FavstiniiVenetiis, apud Marcum Antonium Brugiolum, 1627.

8vo, near contemporary paperboards, pp. ff. [8], pp. 325, [58].

Title vignette, woodcut initials, woodcut head and tail-pieces.

Uncommon first edition of Panciroli's civil law procedure, published posthumously, with the additions of Agostino Faustini.

Guido Panciròli (Reggio Emilia 1523 - Padova or Venice 1599), was an Italian jurist that taught at the University of Padua and Turin.
The most part of his works were published after his death and also this Praxis, a short and practical procedure handbook, that became popular being very useful during the trials.

References: OCLC 80037408 locates only a copy in US libraries, at Harvard Law Library. No copies on the market or appeared in auction in recent times.

TWO ALMANACS ON THE STATE ORGANIZATION OF THE REIGN OF ITALY:
[1.]: CALENDAR ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1864, THIRD OF THE REIGN OF ITALY
[2.]: A SIGNIFICANT DOSSIER OF DOCUMENTS FOR THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE CITY OF PADUA FOR THE YEAR 1862

[1.]: 1864. Calendario generale del Regno d'Italia compilato per cura del Ministero dell'Interno. Anno terzo. Torino: Stamperia dell'Unione tip. editrice torinese, 1864.
[together with:]
[2.]: Il Raccoglitore - Pubblicazione annuale della società d'incoraggiamento in Padova. Anno XI. Padova: Prem. Tip. di Pietro Prosperini, 1862.

[1.]: 8vo (238x156 mm), editorial paper binding; pp. XL, 1298.
[2.]: 8vo (164x128 mm), editorial paper binding; pp. 446.

The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state founded in 1861 when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state. It existed until 1946 when the Italians opted for a republican constitution.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.

References:
[1.]: This edition is not registered in ICCU.
[2.]: ICCU registers the collection of this booklet, which was issued from 1852 to 1871 (IT\ICCU\CFI\0615414 - only 3 copies of the booklet published just in the year 1862).

UNCOMMON ROYAL DECREE ON GENERAL JUDICIARY REGULATION FOR THE EXECUTION OF BOTH CODES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE AND OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, AND OF THE LAW ON THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM

Regio decreto col quale è approvato il regolamento generale giudiziario per l'esecuzione del codice di procedura civile, di quello di procedura penale, e della legge sull'ordinamento giudiziario [14 dicembre 1865 n. 2641]. Milano: Stamperia reale, in esercizio di A. Molina e Socj, 1865.

8vo (230x156 mm), editorial paper binding; pp. 132.

The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state founded in 1861 when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state. It existed until 1946 when the Italians opted for a republican constitution.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.

References: IT\ICCU\TO0\1897687 (2 copies). OCLC, 601622214 and 849470009.

[1.]: SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE LAW OF EXPROPRIATION IN THE PUBLIC UTILITY OF JUNE 25, 1865, N. 2359
[2.]: UNCOMMON TEXT AND COMMENTS BY ARONNE RABBENO OF THE REGULATION TO THE LAW ON LAND PROPERTY EQUALIZATION

[1.]: Legge di espropriazione per causa di pubblica utilità del 25 giugno 1865, n. 2359. Milano: Pirola, 1865.
[together with:]
[2.]: Rabbeno, Aronne. Regolamento 2 agosto 1887, n 4871 alla legge sulla perequazione fondiaria e note per ciascun capo, compilato a cura dell'avv. prof. Aronne Rabbeno. Verona - Padova: Drucker & Tedeschi, 1887.

[1.]: 8vo (240x162 mm), editorial paper binding; pp. 26.
[2.]: 8vo (234x156 mm), editorial paper binding; pp. VIII, 76. Cover dated 1888.

The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state founded in 1861 when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state. It existed until 1946 when the Italians opted for a republican constitution.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.

References:
[1.]: IT\ICCU\LO1\0426422 (3 copies). OCLC, 878327943. Apparently no copy out of Italy.
[2.]: IT\ICCU\CUB\0540872 (2 copies).OCLC, 11617663 (1 copy in USA at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).

[1. - 2. - 3.]: COLLECTIONS OF LAWS AND DECREES ON TAXES AND ON MUNICIPAL AND PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE KINGDOM OF ITALY
[4.]: OFFICIAL COMPENDIUM OF LAWS AND DECREES OF THE KINGDOM OF ITALY - YEAR 1873

[1.]: Collezione delle leggi, dei regolamenti e delle decisioni sul registro, bollo e sopra altri rami dell'amministrazione demaniale. Pubblicazione fatta per cura del Ministero delle Finanze (Direzione Generale delle Tasse e del Demanio). Volume VII. (-VIII). Milano: Stamperia Reale, 1866.
[together with:]
[2.]: Decreti reali sulle tasse di registro in data 14 luglio e 18 agosto 1866 con indice alfabetico analitico delle disposizioni in essi contenute. Milano: Stamp. Reale, 1866.
[together with:]
[3.]: Astolfi, Ferdinando. Raccolta illustrata delle leggi sulle tasse di registro e bollo del Regno ossia codice del registro e bollo contenente tutte le leggi vigenti sulla materia con analoghe annotazioni e riferimenti ed a cui va premesso un indice o prontuario alfabetico estesissimo con tutte le voci comprese dalle leggi e per mezzo del quale a colpo d'occhio si rileva la tassa di registro e bollo cui va soggetto l'atto chiamato dalla voce per Astolfi Ferdinando. Seconda edizione corretta ed aumentata. Venezia: Tipografia Emiliana, 1871.
[together with:]
[4.]: Raccolta ufficiale delle leggi e dei decreti del Regno d'Italia. Anno 1873 (serie 2°) dal numero 1211 al 1766bis. Volume trentesimottavo. Firenze: Stamperia Reale, [1873].

[1.]: 8vo (199x132 mm), half cloth binding, marbled paper at boards, gilt title at spine, blue sprinkled edges; 2 vols; pp. 779; 500.
[2.]: 8vo (226x160 mm), editorial paper binding; pp. 140.
[3.]: 8vo (226x156 mm), editorial paper binding; pp. XCVI, 224.
[4.]: 8vo (220x148 mm), half leather binding with marbled paper at boards, blue sprinkled edges; pp. LXIII, [1], 1296, [1] leaf of folded table.

The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state founded in 1861 when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state. It existed until 1946 when the Italians opted for a republican constitution.

Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.

References:
[1.]: IT\ICCU\TES\0018479 (vol. VII; 3 copies) and IT\ICCU\NAP\0203085 (vol. VIII; 3 copies). No copy out of Italy.
[2.]: IT\ICCU\NAP\0212326 (3 copies). Not in OCLC. Apparently no copy out of Italy.
[3.]: IT\ICCU\CFI\0563754 (2 copies and 1 electronic copy). Apparently no copy out of Italy.
[4.]: ICCU registers the whole collection of the Raccolta ufficiale delle leggi e dei decreti del Regno d'Italia from 1861 to 1947 (IT\ICCU\RMG\0012713). OCLC, 55414625. No copy in USA.

EXCESSIVELY RARE EDITION OF THE COMMERCIAL CODE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

(Chateigner, Jean). Recueil de lois, réglemens et arrêtés pour les tribunaux de commerce, imprimeé par ordre du Directoire exécutif. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, An VII [i. e. 1799].

Half vellum over marbled boards.
Engraved head-piece with the revolutionary bonnet rouge (a Phrygian cap).

Extremely scarce edition of the Commercial Code of the French Revolution considered the first absolute French Commercial Code, also preceding the official French Code de Commerce of 1807. In this edition it is still described as «a collection of laws rules and judgments fro the commerce courts»: the name Code du Commerce will be added in the Bruxelles edition of this same year (see the link below).

The printing date is indicated according to the French Republican Calendar, also commonly called the French Revolutionary Calendar. It was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805. Years appear in writing as Roman numerals (usually), with epoch 22 September 1792, the beginning of the "Republican Era" (the day the French First Republic was proclaimed, one day after the Convention abolished the monarchy). As a result, Roman Numeral I indicates the first year of the republic, that is, the year before the calendar actually came into use.

References: No copy of this Parisian edition in OCLC, that locates only the edition printed in Bruxelles in the same year.

Code du Commerce, Bruxelles, An VII

A COMPLETE SET OF RICHERI'S INSTITUTIONS OF BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAW

Richeri, Tommaso Maurizio.Universa civilis, et criminalis iurisprudentia: iuxta seriem institutionum ex naturali, et romano iure deprompta, et ad usum fori perpetuo accommodata. Tomus 1 [-13]. Placentiae: ex typographia Nicolai Orcesi, 1790-1795.

13 volumes bound in 7 folio volumes, contemporary half calf with labels and gilt-lettered title at spine (the spine of first and the second volumes, bound together, was renewed a century after), pp. XII, 440; 420; 416; 432; 443, [1]; 417, [3]; 416; 441, [3]; 457, [3]; 437, [3]; 456; 380; 328.
Title-page vignettes, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces.

Uncommon second edition, printed in Piacenza, of the Institutions by Tommaso Richeri.

This work is considered of fundamental importance for the knowledge of the common law, which is a final sum in its final evolution, just before it was abolished with the introduction of the Napoleonic Code.

Tommaso Maurizio Richeri (La Morra di Cuneo, 1733 - Torino, 1797), was an Italian jurist that became famous with this very work, published in 12 volumes between 1774 and 1782 and reprinted until 1841.

References: Sapori, I, 2484. OCLC 649012647.

FIRST EDITION OF RINALDI'S COLLECTION OF LEGAL OPINIONS ON CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAW

NO COMPLETE COPIES IN USA

Rinaldi, Giovanni Domenico.
[Vols 1-3:] Io. Dominici Raynaldi […] Observationum criminalium, civilium et mixtarum liber primus [secundus et tertius] […] Cum additionibus ac suppletionibus seorsim antea impressis […] necnon indicibus argumentorum ac materiarum accurate congestis. Venetiis (Venice): Apud Paulum Balleonium (Baglioni, Paolo), 1699.
[together with:]
[Vol. 4:] Io. Dominici Raynaldi [...] Obseruationum criminalium, ciuilium, et mixtarum supplementum. In quo discutiuntur quaestiones rariores in foris tum ecclesiasticis, tum saecularibus disceptari solitae, […] Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Innocentio XII, Pontifici Optimo Maximo dicatum. Romae (Rome): Sumptibus DD. Faeilicis Caesaretti, & Paribeni. Ex Officina Haeredum Corbelletti (Cesaretti, Felice & Paribeni, Domenico - eredi di Corbelletti, Francesco), 1698.

Four volumes in folio (350x240 mm vols. 1-3 and 330x230 mm vol. 4), contemporary full vellum (some neat repairs at spines), with five raised bands spine, handwritten titles and decorations at spine; pp. [32], 568, [72]; [24], 340, [64]; [28], 330, [62]; [24], 587, [89]; text in Latin, printed in two columns.

Title-pages in red and black types, with typographical woodcut devices (at the first three volumes) and with an engraved coat of arms of Pope Innocent XII (at the fourth one); engraved head and -tail pieces, engraved headletters.

First edition of this collection of observations on criminal and civil law.

References: ICCU\MILE\005232-UM1E\008077-008079-008080 and ICCU\RAVE\015553. No complete copy in USA: OCLC 23167177 and 799225132 locate two copies in USA of only the first 3 volumes and OCLC 81557456 locates in USA only the volume of Supplementum (at the Harvard Law School Library).