[MANUSCRIT]. JUSTINIAN]. Institutiones [Institutes] - Lot 85

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[MANUSCRIT]. JUSTINIAN]. Institutiones [Institutes] - Lot 85
[MANUSCRIT]. JUSTINIAN]. Institutiones [Institutes] In Latin, manuscript on paper France, late 16th or early 17th century 144 numbered ff. + [142] non-ch. ff. + 63 ch. ff. + [322] non-ch. ff, complete, cursive writing in ink, several writing modules, notes and glosses in the margins, justification drawn in pale red ink. Bound in green tinted leather, spine with 4 nerves, triple cold fillet framing the boards, remnants of attachments, tinted edges. Dimensions : 210 x 290 mm. Manuscript copy of a law student or practitioner. This manuscript contains the Institutiones Justiniani (Justinian Institutes), a manual of Roman law composed on the orders of the Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Institutiones or Elementa forms the first part of Justinian's body of law and serves, so to speak, as an introduction to the other three: the Code, the Digest or Pandects and the Novelles. It contains four books: the first deals with persons; the second with things (property and various ways of acquiring it, servitudes, prescription, wills); the third with heredity, obligations and contracts; the fourth with obligations arising from a tort. Provenance: Inscription on the verso of the first endpaper: Bergier. - Two inscriptions: "Renoardus" (fol. 1 and fol. 2); other name: "Bengeus" (e.g. fol. 1 of the third foliation).
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