Cujas/Fabrot - Paratitla in lib. IV. V. & VI. Codicis Justiniani. - 1655

CUJAS, Jacques (CUIACIUS) & FABROT, Charles Annibal. Paratitla in lib. IV. V. & VI. Codicis Justiniani. Repetitae prælectionis. Opus Jacobi Cuiacii. Caroli Annibalis Fabroti ad ea Enarrationes.

Paris, at Joannes Jost, via Jacobæa, under the sign of the Holy Spirit, 1655.

One volume in-12, with a contemporary brown marbled full calf binding, gilt framing along the boards, spine with raised bands richly decorated with gilt floral motifs, title piece in brown morocco. Title vignette engraved, depicting the Holy Spirit dove surrounded by angels.

Beautiful classic edition of the 17th century printed in Paris in 1655 by Jean Jost, bringing together the commentaries and paratitla (title summaries) of the famous jurist Jacques Cujas on books IV, V and VI of the Codex Justinianus, enriched with the exegetical and erudite enarrationes of Charles Annibal Fabrot. The work bears witness to the rigor of legal humanism and to the Rediscovery of Roman law, indispensable for the training of magistrates and lawyers of the Grand Century. A fine copy with an era binding on the boards and superb old manuscript notes in the margins and flyleaves.

Jacques Cujas (1522–1590), an absolute figure of the cultivated school or “legal humanism,” revolutionized the study of law by replacing medieval gloss with a rigorous philological and historical analysis of Roman texts. His influence was such that in the 16th century students flocked from all over Europe to Bourges University to hear him. Likewise, the editor and annotator of this volume, Charles Annibal Fabrot, was one of the greatest scholars of his generation, commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu to prepare important Byzantine and legal editions.