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Cologne: Apud Ionnem Gymnicum sub Monocerote, 1597. Rare Edition of an Important Sixteenth-Century Law Dictionary, One Known Copy in North America Nebrija, Antonio de [c.1444-1522], Compiler. Gromors, Pierre [d. 1645?]. Scot, Alexander [fl. 1599-1622]. Caccialupi, Giovanni Battista [c. 1420-1496]. [Jodocus of Erfurt, Presumed Compiler of Vocabularius]. Novum Lexicon Iuris Utriusque Variorum Autorum Antonii Nebrissenis, Petri Gromoroi, Alexandri Scoti. &c. Ex Omnibus Iuris Lexicis in hunc Usque diem Editis Summa Diligentia & Succincto Tenore Collectum; Ut Locupletissimi Iuris Thesaurus Vicem Merito Obtineat. Addita Legum Romanor. Recensitione ex Divers Autoribus. Accesit Jo. Bapt. de Caccialupi Tractat. De Modo Studendi in Utroque Iure, Una cum Historia, Iuris, & Quibusdam Accursii Erroribus. Omnia ad Commodiorem Lectorum usum Varietate Charocterum Distincta. Cologne: Apud Ionnem Gymnicum sub Monocerote, 1597. [xvi], 957 pp. Main text in double columns. Octavo (7" x 4-1/2"; 18 x 11.5 cm). Contemporary vellum with yapp-style fore-edges, faint early hand-lettered title to spine, front pastedown and free endpaper renewed. Spotting and light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, short tear near center of fore-edge of rear board, rear hinge cracked, rear free endpaper lacking, 1/2" strip removed from head of title page, text not affected. Light browning and spotting to interior, tiny spark burn and ink spots to a few leaves, minor worming to sections of text block, mostly to margins, with minor loss to text, but not legibility, underlining and brief annotations in a few places, early markings, a struck-through annotation and two struck-through signatures to title page. $1,750. * Later edition. A work of great authority, this popular dictionary was first published in 1559. It went through more than twenty-five editions, with several variations in content, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All editions have two principal parts: the fifteenth-century Vocabularius attributed to Jodocus of Erfurt and Nebrija's Lexicon Iuris Civilis. It is a curious hybrid of late-medieval and renaissance scholarship; the former work is a typical scholastic compilation, the latter is a humanistic work grounded in philology and historical commentary. Nebrija was an important Spanish scholar and educator. Educated at the universities of Salamanc. Seller Inventory # 76259
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