[Justinianus] Three Leiden imprints: (1) A. Schulting (ed.). Jurisprudentia vetus

ante-Justinianea, qua continentur quae supersunt ex Caji Institutionem libris IV. (...). Leyden, J. van der Linden, 1717, (55),941,(83) pp., contemp. blindst. and panelled vellum, ribbed spine w. manusc. title, 4to.

Occ. sl. browned/ foxed. Pastedowns detached from covers (turn-ins warped). Very good copy. Dekkers p. 159, no. 8. The original edition of this important source-publication of Roman Law before Justinianus. Antonius Schulting (1659-1734), surnamed the 'Dutch Cujacius', filled legal chairs at Harderwijk, Leyden and Franeker and is an important representative of the Dutch humanist school. (2) Joannes van de Water (ed.). Institutionem, sive elementorum (...) libri IV emendatissimi ex editioni Iacobi Cujacii. In eosdem Iani a Costa (...) Commentarius, Accedunt annotationes et notae Theodori Marcilii et Marci Antonii Mureti (...). Ed altera et emendiator. Leyden, S. Luchtmans, 1744, (48),667 pp., 1 engr. plate, contemp. vellum, 4to (very good copy). Dekkers p. 187, no. 2. -and 1 other by Mattheus Wesembeke (1649). (total 3)