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Vocabularius Utriusque Iuris [Juris], Nuremberg, July 1, 1496

Jodocus of Erfurt, Attributed

Handsome 1496 Edition of an Important Legal Dictionary [Jodocus of Erfurt, Attributed]. [Vocabularius Utriusque Iuris]. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1 July 1496]. [152] ff. Text in parallel columns. Collation: a-t8. Calf thumb tabs. Quarto (9" x 7"; 23 x 18 cm). Nineteenth-century period-style binding, quarter morocco over wooden boards, blind rules along board edges, raised bands and blind fillets forming crosses and rules to spine, hasps and buckles, with fragments of leather straps, to fore-edges, pastedowns, which are facsimiles of early printed leaves, added. Light rubbing to boards, spine ends worn, a few chips and vertical cracks to spine, minor worming to front and rear pastedowns at head of gutter, which continues, gradually diminishing, through a few adjacent leaves. Text printed in 47-line gothic type (plus headline), initial spaces blank. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior, light dampstaining to gutter near center of text block, which has a partial crack between k8 and l1, chips to corners and brief early annotations and underlining in two hands to a few leaves. An appealing copy in an attractive binding. $15,000. * A work of great authority, the Vocabularius, as it is popularly known, was published anonymously and is usually attributed to a jurist associated with the University of Erfurt named Jodocus. First published around 1474 in Basel, it went through more than seventy editions over the following 150 years. (It had a second life as a section of the 1559 and subsequent editions of Elio Antonio de Nebrija's Lexicon Juris Civilis.) A useful and highly respected reference work, the Vocabularius is a collection of terms dealing with the Ius Commune taken from such late-scholastic texts as the Vocabularius Stuttgardiensis (1432), the Collectio Terminorum Legalium (c. 1400), and the Introductorium pro Studio Sacrorum Canonum of Hermann von Schildesch (c. 1330). The Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue locates 7 copies of this imprint in North America, 3 in law libraries (Social Law, Library of Congress, and Yale). Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue iv00355000.

Price: $15,000.00

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