THE CORNERSTONE OF EUROPEAN LAW: BARTOLO'S COLLECTED WORKS


Bartolo da Sassoferrato. [1-2:] Bartolus a Saxoferrato In Primam [- Secundam] SS. Veteris Partem. Alexan. Barb. Paris. Claud. À Seissel. Poma. Io Franc. Rueren. Aliorumque Adnotationibus integris illustratus […] dignoscet. Venetiis (Venice): n.p. (but: Lucam Antonium Iuntam), 1580.
[together with, 3-4:]
Bartolus a Saxoferrato In Primam [- Secundam] Infortiati Partem […] dignoscet. Venetiis (Venice): n.p. (but: Lucam Antonium Iuntam), 1580-1581.
[together with, 5-6:]
Bartolus a Saxoferrato In Primam [- Secundam] SS. Novi Partem […] dignoscet. Venetiis (Venice): n.p. (but: Lucam Antonium Iuntam), 1580.
[together with, 7-8:]
Bartolus a Saxoferrato In Primam [- Secundam] Codicis Partem […] dignoscet. Venetiis (Venice): n.p. (but: Lucam Antonium Iuntam), 1580-1581.
[together with, 9:]
Bartolus a Saxoferrato In tres Codicis libros […] dignoscet. Venetiis (Venice): n.p. (but: Lucam Antonium Iuntam), 1580.
[together with, 10:]
Repertorium locupletissimum In omnes Bartoli a Saxo ferrato lecturas […] recognitum. Venetiis (Venice): apud Lucam Antonium Iuntam, 1567.

10 parts bound in 9 volumes in folio (cm 43 x 27); contemporary stiff vellum, with boards in limp vellum (older parchments re-used), four raised bands spine (traces of use, spots, water stains, neat repairs at spine and corners of some volumes), handwritten title at spine and Author's name (BARTOLUS) handwritten at almost all the volumes front boards; pp. 200; 150; 171; 177; 163; 250; 177; 124; 58; 170. The page numbering is progressively made at the recto of the leaves. Text in Latin, printed in two columns.

Title-pages in red and black types, with the renowned Giuntine device representing the Florentine lily, with the initials L. A.; the same printer device is engraved at the colophon of some volumes. An Author's portrait is engraved in an oval frame at the recto of the leaf A2r (p. 3) of the first volume ([…] In Primam SS. Veteris Partem […]); in this volume, there are also two large and nice engravings, representing the Arbor iurisdictionum (at the verso of p. 44) and the Arbor servitutum (at the recto of p. 180). Engraved headletters.

PRECIOUS GIUNTINE EDITION OF THE CORNERSTONE OF EUROPEAN LAW: A COMPLETE SET OF BARTOLO DA SASSOFERRATO'S COLLECTED WORKS, IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING.

Bartolo da Sassoferrato (Sassoferrato, 1314 - Perugia, 1357), teacher of law at Perugia and Pisa, theologist and philosopher, was one of the more eminent jurist of the XIV century in Europe and one of the first exponents of the law school named "the commentators".In spite of his short life, he left many commentary works on Roman law, legal advices to private persons and treatises on specific subjects, among which that regarding the right of retaliation, considered one of the foundation texts of international private law in the following centuries. His comments were so much evaluated and respected to be compared to those of Papinianus, in ancient times. He was appointed (consiliarius( by emperor Charles IV.For the editing of this ponderous work, the Author received the contributions of many contemporary famous jurists, indicated in the titles of some volumes, like: Alessandro Tartagni (1424-1477, better known as Alessandro da Imola, civil and canon law jurist); Andrea Barbazza (about 1399-1479, jurist, teacher of law at Bologna and Ferrara); Andrea Pomatio; Pietro Paolo Parisio (1473-1545); Tommaso Diplovatazio; Claude de Seyssel (1450?-1520); Ioannes Franciscus Ruverensis.

Provenance: Ownership handwritten names at title-pages of almost all the volumes (crossed and unidentified: Octavius Mazocchius ?; Armenii Agnellini et Amicos?); only one of the inscriptions is identified to be of Torquato Giacopini, graduated in canon and civil law in Fermo on 27 March 1589, as clearly inferable by the handwritten and signed note at verso of leaf n. 250 of the vol. entitled: [...] in secundam ff. novi partem […].

References: ICCU\BVEE\016071-016076-015994-016108-\RT1E\003292-\BVEE\006641. Apparently only 3 complete sets in USA: OCLC 55525228 (Newberry Library, Chicago), OCLC 65106803 (Yale Law Library). OCLC 29139212 (George Washington University Law Library, Washington DC). Only two volumes at Library of Congress (OCLC 28666807, that comments: «Originally published as 2 separate works, as part of a comprehensive commentary on the Corpus juris civilis»).

Several spots and waterstains, brownings and wormholes at many leaves, not affecting the reading. Overall, a scarce, complete set of Bartolo's works.