[Corpus Juris Civilis]: Justinianus, Emperor:

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IMPERATORIS JUSTINIANI VOLUMEN, UT PECULIARI VOCABULO VOCANT: JURIS TOTIUS CIVILIS VELUT COLOPHON AC COMPLEMENTUM: QUE SEQUUNTUR COMPLECTENS: LIBRUM AUTHENTICORUM, IN NOVEM COLLATIONES DISTINCTUM, ... Very rare and beautiful printing by Chevallon of this section (usually referred to as the Novellae constitutiones) of the Corpus Juros Civilis. OCLC locates only three copies, two in Germany and one in the Netherlands, with no copies at all in American institutions. The notable large, fine metal cut showing Justinian with his justices in Council, while two dogs play at their feet, was used by B. Rembolt in his 1505 edition of Justinian; "this block occurs in the Gering and Rembolt edition of 1503...and was probably cut for their first edition, 1499. It was used in 1511 in an edition printed by Rembolt alone...and passed to André Bocard, who used it in editions printed for Jean Petit....It appears also in Bocard editions of the Novellae constitutiones (1511, for Jean Bonhomme. Jean Petit, and Thielman Kerver)" - Mortimer. Not in Adams.

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