Exercitationes XVIII. Ad IV. Libros Institutionum Imperialium...
Essays on Justinian Annotated Throughout by a Contemporary Law Student from Geneva Ludwell, Wilhelm [1589-1663]. Exercitationes XVIII. Ad IV. Libros Institutionum Imperialium In Universitate Altdorffina (...) AdJecta Est Disputatio Inauguralis De Quinquaginta Justiniani Decisionibus. Altdorf: Typis & Sumtibus Georgi Hagen, Universitatis Typographi, 1663. [xiv], 353 (i.e. 361), [38] pp. Main title page preceded by added copperplate pictorial title page. Quarto (7-3/4" x 6-1/2"; 20 x 16.5 cm). Contemporary calf front board and spine, later quarter calf over marbled paper rear board, endpapers renewed (using paper, apparently, from a ledger). Light rubbing to boards, light gatoring to calf sections, moderate rubbing to extremities, front hinge split, rear hinge starting, minor worming to endleaves. Light browning to interior, faint dampstaining to margins in a few places, minor loss to fore-edges of final three leaves, annotations and underlining throughout in a neat contemporary hand, signature of annotator, "Andrion" to foot of pictorial title page, later annotation, "Huncce librum inter caeteros JNG Bibliothecae dono dedit Joh. Baptista d'Andrion Genevensis Anno 1670 (Jean Baptiste d'Andrion of Geneva gave this and his other books to the JNG Library in the year 1670)" to verso. A good copy with interesting contemporary annotations. $3,500. * Fourth (stated) edition, one of two issues from 1663. Ludwell was a professor of law at the University of Altdorf. Exercitationes is a collection of essays on the Institutes. Its final section, the Disputatio Inauguralis, discusses a selection of the Novels. The book was first published in 1628; its second edition, mislabeled the third, in 1658; its final edition, the "sixth," in 1695. Andrion [1646-1670] studied law at the University of Geneva and completed his degree at the University of Orleans. The later inscription suggests his books were left to a library in his will. His annotations show he was a careful, astute and curious scholar. Among them are a definition of marital property based on the status of wives, prostitutes and concubines (p. 20), an analysis of the fraudulent alienation of property (p. 278) and an analysis of a law prohibiting adoption by castrated men (p. 31). All editions of this work are scarce. Counting both issu.
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