FUNDAMENTAL AND INDISPENSABLE LAW DICTIONARY OF CANON AND CIVIL LAW
COMPILED BY THE FOUNDER OF CALVINISM

NO COPY OF THIS EDITION IN USA

Calvin, John (Kahl, Johann). Lexicon iuridicum iuris Caesarei simul, et canonici, feudalis item, ciuilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici […] auctum deinde, expolitum & emendatum, ex hactenus editis lucubrationibus Cuiacii, Brissonii, Donelli, Duareni, Gothofredi, Pacii, Vulteii, Goeddaei, item Corrasii, Fabri, Wesembec aliorumque virorum […] studio et opera Iohannis Caluini, alias Kahl, […] Hac autem editione ad censuram indicis expurgatorii fideliter editum. Coloniae (Colonia): Apud Franciscum Helvidium, 1622.

Folio (cm 34 x 23); contemporary stiff vellum (traces of use, neat repairs at spine), vertically handwritten big letters title and decoration at five raised bands spine; pp. [12], 1047, [1]. Text in Latin, printed in two columns.
Title-page in red and black types, with a large woodcut representing a crown with roses and lilies; engraved head and -tail pieces, engraved head-letters.

Fundamental and still useful lexicon of Civil and Canon Law, first published in 1594, also including the lemmas of feudal and criminal law written by the founder of Calvinism.

John Calvin (Johann Kahl, 1509–1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. In 1536 he published the first edition of his seminal work Institutes of the Christian Religion; then, he wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, as well as theological and juridical treatises and confessional documents. Calvin's writing and preachings have spread throughout the world and provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name.

For the edition of this work, he received contributions from many other contemporary humanists, theologists and jurists, as mentioned in the title, like: Matthias van Wesenbeke (1531-1586), Johannes Goeddaeus (1555-1632), Jacques Godefroy (1587-1652), Barnabé Brisson (1531-1591), Hermann Vultejus (1565-1634), François Duaren, Jacques Cujas, Giulio Pace (1550-1635) e Hugues Doneau (1527-1591).

References: ICCU\MILE\002331. OCLC: 633824683 (a copy located in the University Library LMU München, GE), 863457989 (a copy located in the University of Oxford, UK), 651256203 (a copy located in the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico) and 43129488 (a copy located in the University of Pretoria, South Africa, but with "Coloniae" blacked out of imprint; "Geneuae" stamped above). No copy of this edition in USA.

Usual brownings and foxing and occasional wormholes at the outer blank margin of some few leaves, not affecting the text. Overall, a good copy.