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THE MARRIAGE LAWS IN CATALONIAFontanella, Juan Pedro. De Pactis Nuptialibus...
THE MARRIAGE LAWS IN CATALONIA
Fontanella, Juan Pedro. De Pactis Nuptialibus sive Capitulis Matrimonialibus Tractatus: multisregiae audientiae principatus Cathaloniae, & aliorum gravissimorum Senatuum, particulari diligentia adpropositum exquisitis decisionibus ornatus [...] per Iohannem Petrum Fontanella I.C. ex Oppido Oloti,Cathalanum [...]. Tomus Posterior […]. Geneva, Sumptibus Samuelis Chouët, 1659.
Folio (365x235 mm), original paper boards with sepia ink handwritten titles at spine, visible joints, ff. [6], pp. 650, ff. [53, last blank]. Fine printer device at titlepage, xylographic decorations and headletters, text on two columns.
The fundamental treatise on Marriage Law compiled by the Catalan jurist Juan Pedro Fontanella.
The work, printed for first time in 1612, is here in the Geneve edition by Samuel Chouët, with the device of the Crowned Salamander.
The Marriage Law, base for the Family Law, was fundamental in Fontanella period, considering that with combined weddings for political reasons, they, at that time, changed the political situation of small lands as well as of entire countries.
Juan Pedro Fontanella (Gerona, 1576-Barcelona 1680) was a Catalan jurist that lived more that hundred years. Beside the present work, he compiled a famous treatise on Decisiones by the Senate of Catalonia.
Provenance: Sepia ink handwritten unidentified ownership inscription at titlepage, beside the printer device Ex Libris Noctoris (?) Cesaris Malfattis.
References: Fontana, pars I, col. 355. Not in Sapori, that mentions other five editions. IT\ICCU\CFIE\003331.