Commentariorum de iure novissimo libri sex. Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen,

£2,250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

First edition from the library of a prominent legal member of the Fugger family, Hans Ernst Fugger, Graf zu Kirchberg and Weissenhorn (1590-1639), a lawyer who held the important posts of President of the Reichskammergerichts and of the Reichshofrats in Vienna. The author, Petrus Gudelinus (1550-1619) or Pierre Goudelin was a renowned Dutch jurist who taught law at the University of Louvain. His posthumously published writings were based on his lectures, the present work Commentatorium de iure novissimo libro sex , presents the content of the Novellae together with the corresponding Dutch and French customary law. For a discussion of Goudelin’s influence on the production of Grotius’ Introduction to Dutch Jurisprudence , as one of his immediate predecessors*,* see Sir J.W. Wessels*, History of Roman-Dutch Law* (1908), p. 252-9. Provenance:Hans Ernst Fugger, Graf zu Kirchberg and Weissenhorn (1590-1639). Ownership inscription inside front cover of Klosters Aldersbach “FF B. Marie Virginis de Aldersbach”. Text a little browned in places. OCLC (US: Yale Law only, no copy in UK). .

• Year: 1620

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