SCARCE EDITION OF MERLINI'S TREATISE ON INHERITANCE LAW
ONLY ONE COPY IN USA

Merlini, Mercuriale. De Legitima Tractatus Absolutissimus [...]. Genevae (Ginevra), Sumptibus Samuelis Chouet, 1665.
[bound with:]
Merlini, Mercuriale. Decisiones Sacrae Rotae Romanae In Tractatu de Legitima [...]. (Genevae, Sumptibus Samuelis Chouet, 1665).

Folio (338x208 mm), full stiff vellum binding, four raised bands spine, sepia ink handwritten titles at first spine sector and at lower edge, pp. [72, last three are blank], 584, 322, [38, last is blank]. Page numbering jumps from p. 124 to p. 133 due to a mistake during printing. Red and black titlepage, xylographic headletters and decorations at preliminary leaves, text on two columns.

Scarce late Renaissance treatise on inheritance, focused on the procedure of the legitime, or legitima portio.

The treatise is augmented by many Decisiones by the Roman Rota related to real cases dealing with the matter.

Mercuriale Merlini (1597-1657) was a jurisconsultant from Forlì. He wrote many treatises on juridical subjects.

Provenance: Some typographical small hands and pen strokes at margins of few pages.

References : IT\ICCU\BA1E\014351 (only one copy of the same edition, identical to our copy for everything but the printer, Pierre Chouet instead of Samuel). OCLC 17974137 quotes only two copies worldwide, one in USA (UCLA, Los Angeles).

Minor water-stains and usual foxing. Good copy.