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A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS DEALING WITH JUDGES, JUDICIAL DISCRETION AND CIVIL...
A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS DEALING WITH JUDGES, JUDICIAL DISCRETION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE, ACTIONS AND DEFENSES IN ROMAN LAW BY THE ITALIAN JURIST GIACOMO MENOCHIO
Menochio, Giacomo. Iacobi Menochii [...] De arbitrarijs iudicum quaestionibus, & causis. Libri duo. [...] Hac omnium postrema editione ab ipso auctore recogniti, [...] Cum indicibus quatuor, [...]. Venetiis: apud Ioan. Antonium de Franciscis, 1624.
Folio (320x214 mm), full vellum binding from a manuscript of the early sixteenth century, paste-board covered with a three columns printed leaf again of the early sixteenth century (spine restored with ancient paper); pp. [120], 1008. Large printer's device at title-page (in a richly figured frame the Peace, with the motto: Omnem sensum exuperat). Xylographic initials. Text in two columns.
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.
Handwritten ownership inscriptio al title page (A.J. Castellani).
References: IT\ICCU\UM1E\001956. OCLC, 797684889 and 220684352 (one copy in Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra).