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BAMBERG]. Bambergische Halssgerichts und Rechtlich ordnung, in peinlichen sachen zu volnfarn allen Stetten, Communen, Regimenten, Amptleuten, Vögten, Verwesern, Schultheysen, Schöffen, und Richtern, dienstlich fürderlich und behülfflich, darnach zu handeln und rechtsprechen, gantz gleichförmig gemeynen geschriben Rechten... Mainz: Johann Schoeffer, 1531. 2 o (286 x 194 mm). Woodcut title illustration printed from two blocks, 21 woodcut illustrations in text, of which 3 full page and several composed of two blocks, woodcut printer's device at end. Sixth Mainz and fifth Schoeffer edition of the influential legal treatise known as the Bambergesche Halsgerichtsordnung , attributed to Johann von Schwarzberg (1463-1528), and based on a combination of local and foreign law, in particular Italian criminal law. The work was a milestone in the development of criminal justice and was published in many editions. The woodcuts of this edition and Schoeffer's other editions of the work are slightly reduced copies of the woodcuts of the first edition (Bamberg 1507), with the addition of a few small cuts from his editions of the German Livy (1505 and later); they depict the course of 16th-century criminal proceedings: arrest, questioning, torture, sentencing and execution. BM/STC German , p.64; Roth Die Mainzer Buchdruckerfamilie Schoeffer , p.83; Stobbe Geschichte der deutschen Rechtsquellen , vol. II, p. 241; cf. Muther 1730. [ Bound with ]: [HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE]. Peinlich Halssgericht des Allerdurchleuchtigsten Grossmechtigsten, unüberwindlichsten Keyser Carols des Fünfften und des Heyligen Römischen Reichs peinlich Gerichtsordnung, auff den Reichstägen zu Augspurg und Regenspurg in jaren dreyssig und zweyunddreyssig gehalten, auffgericht und beschlossen. Frankfurt: Peter Schmidt for Hieronymus Feyerabend, 1569. 2 o. Title printed in red and black with elaborate ornamental opening fraktur initial, woodcut title vignette of the imperial court, 6 woodcut illustrations in text, printer's device on verso of last leaf. Later edition of the Constitutio criminalis Carolina . [ Bound with ]: [BRANDENBURG]. Brandenburgische halszgerichts ordnung. Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1516. 2 o. Title printed in red above large woodcut illustration of instruments of torture, on verso a full-page woodcut of coat-of-arms, one full-page woodcut illustration in text. (Sidenotes cropped.) Reprint of the 1507 Bambergische Halszgerichtsordnung. Muther 1222. Stobbe II, p.245. 17th-century blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard. Provenance : copious Latin marginalia (cropped) in first work by a contemporary legal scholar; Janus Eberbach: 14-page legal manuscript in Latin, dated 20 February 1599, bound at end, containing 4 chapters of a treatise on jurisprudence and two subject indexes to a work of civil law (apparently unrelated to the printed texts in the volume); Johann Conrad Feuerlein (18th-century engraved armorial bookplate); Ed. Laboulay (signature and notes on front paste-down).