A CELEBRATED LAW DICTIONARY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

DE MILIS, NICOLO'. Repertorium do. Nic. de Milis. Repertorium admodum solenne (quod merito opus singularium dictorum appellant) do. Nicolai de Milis iurium interpretis clarissimi: cum apostillis antea positis. Nuperrime notandis auctum summarijs, nouoque preposito indice, sententias speciales elementari serie continente: quamplurimis etiam vltra singularia & notabilia Lud. Romani Mathesillani, & omnium modernorum, per Henricum ferrandat Niuernensem. Impressum in inclita ciuitate Lugduni opera Ioannis Flaiollet ..impensis Iacobi Giunta, 1543 (Lyon: Giunti, 1543).

8vo, contemporary limp vellum, traces of ties, ff. [16], 396.
Woodcut title-page printed in red and black, woodcut head-letters, woodcut Giuntine device at end. Text in Gothic type.

Rare Giuntine edition of Repertorium, one of the most celebrated law dictionaries in the middle ages.

Doctor in both, civil and canon, law, attorney for a long time in Rome, Nicolò de Milis wrote this renowned dictionary that was printed for the first time in Rome from Ulrich Hahn in the early seventies of the fifteenth century, the Repertorium had , already in the fifteenth century, numerous reprints, to which followed, in the next century, at least seven editions, from 1504 to 1581. Intended primarily for practical use, the volume is, in this beautiful 16th century handy French edition, enriched by numerous notabilia of renowned lawyers as Mattheus Mattesilani and Henricus Ferrandat, editors of this edition. and other doctores moderni. Despite its large circulation in earlier times, however, the treaty is now, for some time, on the antiquarian market, remarkably rare.

Provenance: Not identified annotations by a contemporary hand.

References: OCLC locates 3 copies in worldwide public libraries, 1 in USA (at The George Washington University Law Library, Jacob Burns Law Library).

Occasional light foxing, but a good copy.