JUSTINIAN -

Digestorum seu Pandectarum. Pars tertia, quarta, quinta, sexta, septima. (Part: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).

Lugduni (Lyon), Rouillium, 1581.

12mo. Uniformly bound in five contemporary full vellum bindings with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spines and small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Very light wear and a few marks to extremities, otherwise a nice and clean set. Titles printed within woodcut architectural border. 651 pp.; 699 pp.; 1116 pp.; 1094 pp.; 944 pp.

Five parts (3, 4, 5, 6 & 7) of the 1581 Rouille-edition of Justinian's Digest or Pandects of one of the foundational texts of Roman law compiled under the direction of Emperor Justinian I around 533 AD. It forms a major part of the Corpus Juris Civilis which was a comprehensive codification of Roman law commissioned by Justinian to systematize and organize centuries of legal thought and rulings.

Order-nr.: 61587