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UNCOMMON TREATISE REGARDING THE LAWS ON MONKS AND MONASTERIESCHOPPIN, RENÉ....
UNCOMMON TREATISE REGARDING THE LAWS ON MONKS AND MONASTERIES
CHOPPIN, RENÉ. Renati Choppini Andegavi. I.C. Et in Supremo Parisiorum Senatu, Advocati Monasticon, seu, De Iure Coenobitarum, Libri Dvo.. [...]. Paris, Somnius, 1601.
Folio, contemporary mottled calf, gilt title and decorations on six raised bands spine, pp. 354, ff. [59].
Printer’s woodcut device at titlepage, woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
FIRST EDITION OF THE «MONASTICON» AN UNCOMMON LEGAL TREATISE ON THE LAWS REGARDING MONKS AND MONASTERIES.
René Choppin (1537-1606) was a French jurist. In his treatise De dominio Franciae (1574), he supported the rights of the king against those of the Church; later, however, defended Gregory XIV against Henry I. His major works are De legibus Andium municipalibus (1581) and De civilibus Parisiorum moribus (1596).
Provenance: Contemporary signature Augier at title-page, king's counselor, dean and professor of the Law Faculty of the University of Bourges He was the father of Jean-Baptiste Augier (1769-1819), the famous general and politician during the French Revolution.
References: IT\ICCU\PALE\001778. OCLC 705762355.