Justinianus I / Denys Godefroy / Antoine Vitré - Corpus iuris civilis, quo ius universum Iustinianeum comprehenditur. Pandectis, ad Florentinum - 1627-1628

Justinian I / Denys Godefroy / Antoine Vitré: Corpus iuris civilis, which encompasses the entire Justinian law. Published with the Pandects, expressed according to the Florentine archetype. The Code, compared with the best editions, with notes from the repeated fifth lecture of Dionysius Gothofredus, including among other things various readings, similar laws, contradictory laws, repealed laws, interpretations of difficult words and laws, selected repetitions, arguments, summaries, and epitomes, added for each year to the laws of the individual codes. Also included are the Institutes, Justinian’s novellas, summaries of Leo and the feudatories, the perpetual edict. Greek laws and constitutions in the Pandects and Code. The Laws of the Twelve Tables restored in their proper order, by the same author. Added are authentic or new Greek constitutions of Justinian, Leo, Zeno, Tiberius, Heraclius, and other emperors, collated with Latin, which had not been previously published. Also included are the canons of the apostles, in both Greek and Latin. The chronicle canons and consular lists up to the death of Justinian, ensuring nothing was omitted due to neglect. Published in Paris, at the Antonij Vitray printing house, in the College of Lombards, 1627-1628. Two volumes in folio: Volume 1, 31 leaves including frontispiece, 1982 columns, 1 leaf (colophon 1627); Volume 2, 8 leaves, 1048 columns, 7 leaves, and 1 page, 700 columns. The title page of volume 1 is likely missing after the frontispiece. Originally bound in leather with ribs. The spine is slightly worn / a bit frayed. Plates are in good condition with a gold impression in the center. Corners slightly bent and lightly worn. The text block is stained red. The title page of volume 1 at the bottom is somewhat worn and reinforced with old matching paper overall. The title page of volume 2 at the back is also reinforced with matching old paper. Small old wormholes are visible here and there in the lower margin. The binding is good. The paper is sturdy.

ZELDZAAM.
Denis Godefroy (Dionysius Gothofredus; October 17, 1549 – September 7, 1622) was a French jurist and a member of the renowned Godefroy family. He worked in France and Germany.
He was born in Paris, as the son of Léon Godefroy, lord of Guignecourt. He received his education at the Collège de Navarre and studied law in Leuven, Cologne, and Heidelberg, after which he returned to Paris in 1573. He embraced the Reformed faith and left Paris in 1579, where his talents and connections promised a brilliant career, to settle in Geneva. There, he became a professor of law, received honorary citizenship in 1580, and in 1587, became a member of the Council of the Hundred. Henry IV of France persuaded him to return to France by appointing him grand bailiff of Gex, but scarcely had he settled there when the city was plundered and his library burned by the troops of the Duke of Savoy. In 1591, he became a professor of Roman law in Strasbourg, where he remained until April 1600. At the invitation of Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, he moved to Heidelberg. The difficulties of his position led him to briefly return to Strasbourg, but in November 1604, he settled permanently in Heidelberg. He became head of the law faculty at the university and was occasionally involved in missions at the French court. His repeated refusal of promotion offers in his homeland was due to his Calvinism. He died in Strasbourg, after leaving Heidelberg before the city was plundered by imperial troops in 1621.
His most important work was the new edition of Corpus juris civilis, originally published in Geneva in 1583, which went through about twenty editions, the most valuable of which are the Elzevirs edition from Amsterdam in 1663 and the Leipzig edition from 1740. Lists of his other scholarly works can be found in Senebiers Hist. litt. de Genève, volume ii, and in Nicérons Mémoires, volume xvii. Part of his correspondence with his learned friends, including his relative President de Thou, Isaac Casaubon, Jean Jacques Grynaeus, and others, is preserved in the libraries of the British Museum, Basel, and Paris.