BAVARIA.

£37,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

.Stunning first edition of this remarkable collection of revised Bavarian statutes, beautifully printed in red and black on very high quality vellum, richly bound in English morocco. Only one copy on vellum is recorded (Morgan) outside German libraries. Luxury editions on vellum of important books, were produced in very small numbers to serve as presentation copies to the great and especially to patrons. Regarding this edition, It has been asserted that the type employed in the vellum copies differs throughout from that in the paper copies the headings, also, are all in red; in the paper copies they are said to be in black (Fairfax Murray) .The Reformacion der Baörischen Lanndrecht constitutes a revised, codified and systematised new version of the Oberbayerische Landrecht , the Bavarian law code issued by Ludwig IV in 1346. The introduction specifies that the old law is provided with additions, explained and brought into better order. A document of great cultural significance, the volume covers the whole range of private law, including trials, crime, morality, blasphemy, marriage and inheritance, commercial transactions. The century before the theological reformation of Luther was an era of intense legal reformation in Germany. In the early fifteenth century, German jurists began to call for a thoroughgoing reformation (reformatio) of the doctirines, structures and methods of private and criminal law. Beginning with Cologne in 1437, several German cities passed what they ca

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