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JUSTINIANUS I (527-565). Digestum novum , with the gloss of Accursius and the Summaria according to Bartolus de Saxoferrato and Paulus de Castro . Venice: Andreas Calabrensis, Papiensis, 30 April 1491.
JUSTINIANUS I (527-565). Digestum novum , with the gloss of Accursius and the Summaria according to Bartolus de Saxoferrato and Paulus de Castro . Venice: Andreas Calabrensis, Papiensis, 30 April 1491. First edition to be joined by the Summaria of Bartolus and Paulus of the most important part of the Corpus Iuris Civilis , the basis for all Western legal systems. Bound at Louvain for the printer and bookseller Johannes de Westphalia. Goff J-570. Royal folio (430 x 283mm). With first and final blank leaf, printed in red and black, printer’s device in red at end, major initials in interlocking red and blue with penwork decoration, other initials and paragraph marks in blue (marginal repair in first 2 leaves, very occasional light dampstain, marginal repair in first 2 leaves). Contemporary Louvain binding for Johannes de Westphalia as bookseller: blindstamped calf over wooden boards with the rebus tool (bird, letters ve, bow-and-arrow), Holy Face, pelican and others, evidence of chain-staple (scuffed, rebacked preserving much of original backstrip, discreet restorations). The Corpus Iuris Civilis is a compilation enacted under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, and is ‘without doubt the most important and influential collection of secular legal materials that the world has ever known. All later Western … civil law systems derive [their] concepts, approaches, structure, and systematics of private law primarily from the long centuries of theoretical study and putting into practice of the Corpus Juris Civilis . Of the Corpus Juris Civilis the most important part is the Digest ' (Alan Watson, preface to his edition of the translation, The Digest of Justinian , I, p.xxiii, 1998). Johannes de Westphalia was a printer and bookseller at Louvain associated with a bindery working for him. The rebus tool used here and elsewhere probably identifies the binder as Ravescot, very likely Johannes’ fellow printer at Louvain, Ludovicus de Ravescot. For other bindings from this shop, see E. Ph. Goldschmidt, Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings 25-26; A.W. Pollard, Catalogue of the Rush C. Hawkins Collection frontispiece; G.D. Hobson, Bindings in Cambridge Libraries pl. XII; Schwenke-Schunke II, 159ff. A large copy with numerous deckle edges. H *9590; GW 7713; BMC V 397; IGI 5456; Bod-inc J-266; BSB-Ink C-590; Goff J-570.