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AMUSING ANCIENT COLLECTION OF ANECDOTES ON LAW AND LAWYERSMénage, Gilles....
AMUSING ANCIENT COLLECTION OF ANECDOTES ON LAW AND LAWYERS
Ménage, Gilles. Juris civilis amoenitates […] cum præfatione Joannis Guilielmi Hoffmanni et indicibusnecessariis. Neapoli, apud Vincentium Orsino, Sumptibus Joseph Mariae Porcelli, 1779.
8vo (195x120 mm), half calf binding on handmade colored paper, gilt titles and floral decorations at spine, red ink sprayed edges, ff. 44,356. Xylographic decorations. Missing Prince Ignatius II portrait, supposed to be after title-page.
The amenities of Roman Law, collected by the French scholar Gilles Ménages and introduced by the German jurist Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann (1710-1739).
This original collection put together, for the amusement of jurists, anecdotes, adjustments, and names etymology, all tied to the environment of ancient laws.
Gilles Ménages (1613-1693, latinized Aegidius Menagius) was born in a family of jurists; his father was the King of France lawyer in Angers. He followed the ecclesiastical career instead of the legal one, and was member of Académie Française and Accademia della Crusca: he is remembered to have composed the first etymological vocabularies of French and Italian
References: OCLC, 16671807. ICCU, IT\ICCU\FOGE\008261 e IT\ICCU\RMSE\002619.