RARE GIUNTINE EDITION OF DI CASTRO’S COUNSELS
WITH A BINDING FROM A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT

ONLY A COPY IN WORLDWIDE PUBLIC LIBRARIES

DI CASTRO, PAOLO. Consiliorvm sive responsorvm [...] cvivs haec omnivm postrema editio habet tvm consuetas multorum adnotationes, & praesertim Nicolai Michaelis [...] emendata [...].Venice, Giunti, 1617.

3 parts bound in 2 volumes in-folio (360x226), contemporary stiff vellum with a part from an ancient early manuscript, calligraphic title on four raised bands spines, ff. [2], 242, [18]; 222, [12]; 42, [8].
Printer’s woodcut device at titlepages.

VERY RARE GIUNTINE EDITION, REPRINT OF THE 1580 EDITION, OF PAOLO DI CASTRO’S «COUNSELS», ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF LEGAL ADVICES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

The binding is partly composed with a vellum from a Medieval manuscript written in a fine semigothic handwriting.

Paolo di Castro (1394-1441), jurist of the "school of commentators", scholar of Baldo degli Ubaldi, studied and taught at Avignon; then he was teacher of civil law at Florence, Siena, Bologna and Padova; he was also mayor at Viterbo. After Bartolo and Baldo, he was the most influent medieval lawyer of his time.

References: IT\ICCU\VIAE\017590 (only 2 copies). OPAC locates only two copies in Italy of this edition; out of Italy, OCLC 80356333 locates only a copy in worldwide public libraries at Harvard Law Library.

It lacks ab origine the Index of the second volume; otherwise a good copy, with minor waterstains in the second volume.