JUSTINIAN'S INSTITUTIONS IN GREEK WITH THE ORIGINAL PARALLEL TEXT

Theophilus Antecessor (Fabrot, Charles Annibal -translator). Theophili Antecessoris Institutionum libri IV. Parisiis, Apud Viduam Mathurini Du Puis, via Iacobaea, sub signo Coronae aureae, 1657.

4to (243x175 mm), full stiff vellum, sepia ink handwritten titles on second spine section, edges sprayed in blue ink, pp. [16], 720. Red and black title page with engraved printer device with a Crown and the motto Donec totum ambiat orbem . Text in greek, roman and latin types, xylographic headletters and decorations.

Second edition of Justinian's Institutiones edited by Teophilus, one of the compiler of the work, appointed by Justinian himself.

In the same period in which it had started the Law reorganization in the Pandectae, Justinian asked the jurists Trebonianus, Theophilus e Dorotheus to create a manual that summarized the items of the Roman Law to be used by the students of the Empire. The Institutiones remained, along the centuries, a cornerstone of the matter because of the clarity and completeness, and for that reasons were utilized by the most important scholars as a skeleton to build their own commentary on it.

Charles Annibal Fabrot (1580-1659), French jurist, translates Theophilus’ Institutiones proposing the original greek text with the latin translation on the front column.

Theophilus was a byzantine jurist that lived around VI century. His fame is related to the compilation of Justinian’s Institutiones and to the Parafrasi that he edited on that work. His operas gained a huge fame and a great diffusion with the coming of the printing, published with the Corpus Iuris Civilis or with Paratitla .

References: (ICCU, IT\ICCU\ FOGE\015726). OCLC, 53372144 locates only 3 copies in USA (Boston College, Duke University Libraries and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary).

Very light foxing, but a good copy.