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THE LAW COUNSELS OF THE COUNSELOR OF THE KING OF ARAGONGrammaticus, Thomas....
THE LAW COUNSELS OF THE COUNSELOR OF THE KING OF ARAGON
Grammaticus, Thomas. Consilia, vota seu iuris responsa, summa nunc demum fide castigata & excusa. Accessit in totum corpus. Nouus index uagus & bipartius, cum fidelis, tum copiosus. Venetiis , apud Dominicum Lilium, 1557.
2 parts in a volume 8vo (157x107 mm), contemporary limp vellum with handwritten title at spine, ff. 240, [40].
Two separate title-pages, text on two columns, Roman type.
Fine Venetian edition of the «Counsels» by the Neapolitan lawyer Tommaso Grammatico, contains the same 70 consilia as published in Venice in 1542 under title Allegationes et consilia tam in causis criminalibus quam fiscalibus.
The index is by Giovanni Battista Ziletti.
Tommaso Grammatico was a renowned lawyer under the reign of Ferdinand II of Aragona in the south of Italy. He was created judge by Federico II of Aragon in 1496, fiscal lawyer in 1506 and Royal Counselor in 1535.
Provenance: Some not identified contemporary annotations.
References: CNCE 25840. OCLC 29955386.
V. Ventura, Profilo di Tommaso Grammatico giurista e letterato in «Scritti di St. del Dir. Ital. offerti dagli allievi a Domenico Maffei», edited by M. Ascheri, Padova, 1991, pp. 353-375.