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EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF MASCARDI'S CONCLUSIONS ON CANON AND CIVIL...
EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF MASCARDI'S CONCLUSIONS ON CANON AND CIVIL LAW, ALSO
INCLUDING CRIMINAL AND FEUDAL LAW
Mascardi, Giuseppe. Iosephi Mascardi ... Volumen primum (secundum et tertium). Conclusiones probationum omnium, quae in vtroque foro quotidie versantur, iudicibus, aduocatis, causidicis ... vtiles, praticabiles, ac necessariae. Quibus canonicae, ciuiles, feudales, criminales, caeteraeque, materiae continentur. Per ampliationes (ut dicitur) limitationes, intelligentiasque alphabetico ordine abunde digestae. Numquam hactenus in lucem aeditae. Summarijs, ac indice rerum, sententiarumque magis selectarum locupletissimo ornataeVenetiis: Apud Damianum Zenarum, 1584-1587.
Three volumes in-folio, contemporary stiff vellum binding, handwritten title at four raised bands spine. Red and black title-page, text on two columns, xylographic headletters.
Scarce first edition of Mascardi’s Conclusiones on Canon, Civil, Criminal and Feudal Law, also containing the first edition of Ricci-Nigro’s Additiones after the Index of the third volume, and with its own title-page. Giuseppe Mascardi, apostolic prothonotary and Bishop in Ajaccio is mainly famous for this work, also appreciated by Leibniz.
Giovanni Luigi Ricci, latinized Iohannes Aloysius Riccius (1570-1643) was member of the noble Naples family Riccio, or Rizzo. He became canon in the Naples Cathedral and Bishop in Vico Equense.
Provenance: Paper ex-libris at title-pages.
References: OCLC 28793638 (Harvard Law School Library and University of Chicago Library).