BARDAJÍ Y ALMENARA, Juan Ibando de

£4,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

The elegant armorial binding, unusual for law books, bears the same variation of the Aragon arms (first quarter: Cross of Íñigo Arista, second: St George’s cross with four severed Moors’ heads, third: the Bars of Aragon) as another copy of the same work preserved at the Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza (F.A.49). The archive includes records from the Diputación del Reino de Aragón (1364-1708), an institution concerned with administrative and financial policy. It was heavily involved in the administration of justice, as the king could not pass any laws without its approval, as well as in the settling of legal disputes between social groups. The present copy was used for reference by members of the Diputación (or ‘diputados’) involved in legal administration—one of whom underlined numerous passages throughout—among whom were representatives of the ecclesiastical authorities, the nobility, universities and cities. Good copy of the first edition of two legal manuals of the Kingdom of Aragon written by Juan Ibando de Bardaxí y Almenara (d.1586), a lawyer from Zaragoza and councillor in the Real Chancillería. After his death, his brother—professor of law—edited and published Juan Ibando’s numerous mss held in the archives of the Diputación del Reino. The ‘Tractati’ were two of many ‘national’ legal manuals produced in C16 Spain by private initiative on the basis of everyday professional practice. The first explains the origins, appointments and duties of the ‘procurator general’ or

• Binding: Hardcover

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