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Title

Commentary on the Institutiones Iustiniani

Authors

• Caimo, Giacomo, 1609-1679

Other related names

• Wilmersdoerffer, M. von, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 852
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3178009
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178009

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1743

Place

Austria?

Summary

Four books of commentary on Justinian's Institutiones, one of the major Roman law texts, with an index.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; author from title page for first section (f. 1r).
   
• Other title, Imperialium institutionum libri IV, is from Zacour-Hirsch.
   
• Incipit: Proemium. Legibus &c. tum pacis tum belli tempore respublica regi debet; quare Justinianus veraqure precise necessaria comperiens ... (p. i).
   
• Explicit: ... ubi Deo propitio plenius saturentur ut monemur in ss. ult. h[oc] t[itulum] (p. 386).
   

Extent

222 leaves : 198 x 140 (141 x 95) mm. bound to 204 x 144 mm

Foliation

Paper, 222; [i], 1-88, [i], 89-182, [i], 183-201, [ii], 202-289, [i]. 290-386, [lii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Decoration

Title borders, vignettes, and tailpieces in pen and black ink on title page, opposite p. 89 and 182, p. 289, opposite p. 289, p. 386, [389], [393], [436]. Fold-out diagram of kinship relationships, "Haec est Arbor Civilis," decorated with red (between p. 201 and 202).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• "Ex libris M. von Wilmersdoerffer, 1897," printed color bookplate inside upper cover.
   
• Sold by Wolfe, January 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Roman law--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Coats of arms
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover