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A COMMENTARY ON PRESUMPTIONS AND CONJECTURES IN ROMAN LAWMenochio, Giacomo....
A COMMENTARY ON PRESUMPTIONS AND CONJECTURES IN ROMAN LAW
Menochio, Giacomo. Iacobi Menochii [...] De praesumptionibus, coniecturis, signis, & indicis, commentaria in sex distincta libros [...]. Editio omnium postrema [...]. Adjecta sunt summaria, [...]. Coloniae Agrippinae [Koln]: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, sub Monocerote, Anno M. DC. VI. [1606].
Folio (384x256 mm), contemporary full vellum binding (afterwards restored with other parchment), four raised abnds at spine (traces of use, tears); pp. [88], 526, 525-1073, 1038-1096, [2]. Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device (hippocampus, heron and snake with motto: Discite iusticiam moniti). A different version of the printer's device appears on the final page. Woodcut tail-pieces, initials.
Giacomo Menochio (1532-1607) was an Italian jurisconsult, senator, royal adviser and chairman of the Extraordinary Magistrate of Milan.
Provenance: Private library of a Verona noble family, whose roots are in Mantua and in which there were distinguished lawyers and jurists.
References: This edition is not registered in ICCU. OCLC, 312025327 (1 copy in Germany), 499147658 (1 copy in USA, Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta), 602727683 (1 copy in Switzerland).