Ioannis Calvini - Lexicon Iuridicum: Iuris Caesarei Simul, Et Canonici : Fevdalis Item Civilis, Criminalis... - 1601

Rare edition of this important reference work devoted to the terminology and concepts of the learned law of modern Europe, particularly Roman law, whose vocabulary then formed the foundation of a large part of academic legal culture.

Designed as a vast lexicon, the book gathers and explains the main terms, expressions, concepts and institutions encountered in Latin legal texts, offering students, magistrates, jurists and erudite readers a tool intended to facilitate understanding of the sources of Roman law and their interpretation.

Each entry helps illuminate the legal meaning of a word or phrase by placing it in the context of Roman institutions, legislative texts, jurisprudence and the tradition of commentators.

Ioannis Calvin - Lexicon Iuridicum: Iuris Caesarei - 1601 - Claudii Mamii haeredum Ioannis - numbered by column / 2 columns per page 2096 columns + 170 columns -

State of binding: good; the work in its period half-leather binding, wear from handling, some minor defects on boards and spine (with a small loss at the bottom of the spine), cracked spines, stains on the boards, rubbing along the edges, headcaps and corners worn, red speckled edges, smooth decorated spine, gilt lettering on morocco spine -

Good inner condition, some stains, scribbles and a handsome vignette on the title page, text in two columns, fine initial, endpapers in decent condition, good copy -

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