A WIDE COLLECTION OF ROMAN ROTE DECISIONS
COLLECTED BY VARIOUS IMPORTANT JURISTS OF THE RENAISSANCE

[Canon Law, Roman Sacred Rota] Various Authors. Decisionum nouissimarum diuersorum sacri palatij apostolici auditorum, volumen primum [-tertium]. Opus sane per quam vtile, et in foro versantibus summe necessarium. His accessit practica quaedam notabilium quorundam eiusdem Rotae perpetuò quidem memoriae commendanda. Cum summarijs et indice locupletissimis. Omnia nunc recens in lucem edita. [...]. Venetiis (Venice): apud Damianum Zenarium, & Hieronymum Francinum (Zenaro, Damiano & Franzini, Girolamo), 1590.

3 volumes in folio (cm 35 x 23); contemporary vellum, with a four raised bands spine (traces of use and stains, neat repairs at some spine and corner), handwritten title at spine; pp. [8], 288; [8], 166, [68]; [8], 320, [58]. The page numbering is progressively made at the recto of the leaves. Text in Latin, printed in two columns.
Title-page in red and black types, with an engraved portrait of Pope Sixtus V in a circle and a large xylografic vignette representing a zodiac sphere, with many concentric circles, zodiac signes, the sun and the planets and with a motto in the centre: Virtus Gubernatur inde omnis inferior. ). Engraved head and -tail pieces, engraved headletters.

Wide collection of Roman Rote Decisions, compiled by renowned jurists of the Renaissance period.

This work was edited by the Roman Tribunal of Rota.

References: ICCU\UMCE\013729-013731-013732-013733; OCLC 682455138.

Occasional brownings; fastidious water stains at the last leaves of the second volume, not affecting the reading of the text.