TWO WORKS BY HEINECKE ON ROMAN CIVIL LAW


[1.]: THE ORIGINAL LATIN TEXT OF HEINECKE'S EXPOSITION OF ROMAN CIVIL LAW

Heinecke, Johann Gottlieb. Elementa Juris Civilis secundum ordinem Institutionum, Commoda Auditoribus methodo adornata. [...] Venetiis, Ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1749.

12mo (155x95 mm), paperboard binding, titles and volume number handwritten in sepia ink on a paper label at spine, enriched with handcolored paper, pp. xxiv, 600. Xylographic headletters and decorations at first leaves.

Roman Civil Law, presented by Heinecke according to the structure of Justinian's Institutiones .

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.

Johann Gottlieb Heinecke, (Eisenberg, 1681-Halle, 1741; Latinized Eineccius), teacher of philosophy and law at Halle and Frankfurt , was a renown German jurist, follower of the juristic current named «philosophical», connected to the thought of Thomasius and Pufendorf. As opposed to the jurists that believed that jurisprudence was formed by a series of rules, derived from customs, Heinecke considered it as rational science, ascribable to series of principles to be considered during the activities of making laws.

Provenance: sepia ink ownership signature Crema Francisco 1810 at recto of first flyleaf, and below it, integration in darker ink di Luzzara by a different hand.


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[2.]: THE ITALIAN EDITION OF HEINECKE'S EXPOSITION OF ROMAN CIVIL LAW:

Heinecke, Jo. Gottlieb. Elementi di diritto civile romano secondo l'ordine delle Istituzioni di Giustiniano [...] Nuova versione dal latino in italiano con note scelte. Napoli, dai Torchi del Tramater, 1831-33.

2 volumes bound together in-8vo(210x125 mm), quarter vellum binding on marbled paper, gilt titles and decorations on two labels at spine, different edges for each of the original volumes, sprayed in blue the first, yellow colored the second, cloth bookmark, pp. 335, [1], 267, [1]. Text in Latin and Italian

Provenance: ownership signature not easily decipherable at first. flyleaf

Only one incomplete copy (only first volume) in Italian public libraries.

[1.]: Light foxing, but a good copy.
[2.]: Light, occasional foxing and minor traces of use, but a very good copy.