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EXTREMELY SCARCE THIRD EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT HUMANISTIC LAW...
EXTREMELY SCARCE THIRD EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT HUMANISTIC LAW DICTIONARY
Spiegel, Jakob.Lexicon Ivris Civilis, Per. C. V. D. Iacobvm Spiegel Selestadiensem ex uarijs probatorum Autorum Commentarijs congestum. Iterumq́[ue] ab ipso recognitum, ac locupletatum. Lugduni (Lyon): Gryphius, 1545.
Folio, contemporary stiff vellum with spine in colored paper, 814 columns, pp. [5].
Woodcut device, woodcut headletters.
Extremely scarce and almost unknown third edition, published in Lyon, of Spiegel's Lexicon Iuris Civilis, a dictionary of terms in Roman and canon law, first published in Strasbourg in 1538.
Jakob Spiegel (1483-1547) was a German lawyer, counselor to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and a notable humanist scholar who corresponded with Erasmus.
References: OCLC 257953039 locates no copies in US libraries and only two copies of this edition in worldwide public libraries, at University of Leiden (Netherlands) and at Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (Germany).