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THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE STATUTES OF THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE, IN WHICH...

THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE STATUTES OF THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE, IN WHICH ARE COLLECTED THE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAWS FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY UNTIL THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

[1.]: Novissimum statutorum ac Venetarum legum volumen, duabus in partibus divisum, Aloysio Mocenigo Venetiarum principi dicatum. Venetiis: ex typographia ducali Pinelliana, 1729.
[bound together with:]
[2.]: Leggi criminali del serenissimo dominio Veneto in un solo volume raccolte, e per pubblico decreto ristampate. [Venezia]: Presso li figliuoli del qu: Gio: Antonio Pinelli Stampatori Ducali, 1751.

4to (240x180 mm), half vellum binding with corners, marbled paper at boards, gilt title on a red leather label at spine. Text in Latin and Italian.

[1.]: Leaves [13], 302 leaves, pp. 115, [1]. Printer's device at title-page (in a figured frame a woman, representing the Justice, with a sword in the right hand and a scale in the left, sitting on two lions).
Xylographic image at frontispiece representing the Lion of Saint Mark, holding the paw on the book of the Gospel opened with the words: Pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus. Another xylographic image representing the Lion of Saint Mark at leaf A1r.
Xylographic initials. Title at false title-page: Novissima Veneta statuta.

Important collection of Venetian statutes comprising the first five books of the Doge Giacomo Tiepolo and the sixth of the Doge Andrea Dandolo, the statutes of the judges of the petition formed the year 1244, the ancient laws under the title of Consulta, the Law Pisana issued on 1492, the practice of the Palace of Venice, the corrections of the Doges Barbarigo Loredan, Grimani, Gritti, Trevisan, Cicogna, Memo, Bembo, Priuli, Francesco Contarini, Erizzo, Carlo Contarini, Domenico Contarini and Alvise Contarini.

[2.]: Leaves 233, [1]. Xylographic image representing the Lion of Saint Mark at title-page. Other xylographic image representing the Lion of Saint Mark at leaf A1r.

Original edition of this collection of the criminal laws of the Republic of Venice.

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\VIAE\012929. OCLC, 691918 and 632085449.
[2.]: IT\ICCU\PUVE\003798. OCLC, 14136575.