Beschreibung:

JUSTINIANUS. Codicis hujus argumentum. Tituli, leges, et autentice sub indice triplice alphabetico ponuntur (…). (Par., A. Boucard for J. Bonhomme, J. Petit and Th. Kerver, 1508). (4), 580, (26) lvs. W. nice woodcut printer's mark of Kerver on ti., 1 large allegorical woodcut depicting the Pope on a throne, num. small woodcut initials, text handsomely printed in red and black throughout. 4º. Cont. spanish blind tooled cf. (Spine dam./partly gone, flap missing, some quires are of a lesser quality paper and therefor slightly browned, inner upper margin of last 60 lvs. a bit dampstained, first and last quire loosening). With four indexes and a preface to the printer by Joh. Chapuis, who also contributed a poem on the eternal value of the work. Until 1530 all 'Codex Justiniani' editions consisted of the first nine books only. A rare edition. Not in Schweiger, not in Adams. The blindtooled leather binding has a crowned lily as device on both covers within compartments; it is of Spanish origin, and old printed Spanish leaves are visible inside the covers. Of the back cover probably an overlapping part with ties is missing: holes for loops on the front cover are still visible. We have here a Mudejar binding in an interesting state: the usual ones are leather over wood, and without flap. See Cockx-Indestege & Storm van Leeuwen in Quaerendo 17 (1987), 250.