SCARCE EDITION OF TEDESCHI'S COUNSELS: FOUNDATION OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAW
«THE LAMP OF THE LAW»

ONLY A COPY IN USA

Tedeschi, Niccolò (Abbas Panormitanus). Nicolai Abbatis Panormitani Consilia & quaestiones, qua fieri potuit diligentia ab erroribus vindicata. His subiecta […] praenotantur. Augustae Taurinorum (Turin): Apud haeredes Nicolai Bevilaquae (eredi Niccolò Bevilacqua), 1577.
[bound with]:
Index locupletissimus in omnia Nicolai siculi Panormitani vulgo dicti, opera. Augustae Taurinorum (Turin): Apud haeredes Nicolai Bevilaquae (eredi Niccolò Bevilacqua), 1577.

Two works bound together in a volume in folio (430x270 mm); contemporary full vellum, with four raised bands spine (rebacked, traces of use), calligrafic title at lower edge; pp. 173, [1], [1, blank]; [122]. 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 at the first work (Consilia) and in black types at the second one (Index locupletissimus), both with a large typographical device (representing, in a decorated frame, a kicking bull who comes out of a cloud, with the Taurus constellation stars on its body and the motto: Mi coelestis origo.); Engraved head and -tail pieces, engraved headletters.

SCARCE EDITION OF TEDESCHI'S «COUNSELS» and «QUESTIONS» of Canon Law, works that integrate his Commentaries (see previous lot).

Niccolò Tedeschi, also known as Niccolò Tedesco, or Niccolò de' Tedeschi, or de' Todeschi, or de' Tudeschi, or Tudisco, or Abbas Panormitanus, or Abbas Siculus, or Abbas Modernus said Panormitanus (Catania, Sicily, 1386 - Palermo, 1445) was an Italian Benedictine canonist, auditor of the Rota and Apostolic referendary, archbishop and also pseudocardinal named by the anti-Pope Felix V; teacher of canon law, writer of many juridical treatises, among all he wrote "Consilia", "Quaestiones", "Repetitiones", "Disputationes, disceptationes et allegationes", "Decretals commentary" and "Flores utriusque juris".

References: ICCU\TO0E\033929-033930. OCLC 732246294 locates in USA only one copy at the Library of Congress.

Traces of use; some stains and brownings at a few leaves. Overall, a good copy.