Placentini iurisconsulti vetustissimi, in summam Institutionu[m] siue elementorum D. Iustiniani sacratiss. principis, nunc denuò recogniti libri IIII. : Eiusdem, de uarietate actionum, libri VI..
Placentinus, Petrus,-1192.
Rhodius, Nicolaus,active 1530-1535
Placentinus, Petrus,-1192.Libellus de actionum varietatibus
Bulgarus,-1166 or 1167.Tractatus de iudiciis
Lugd. : Apud Ioan. Frellaeum. et Gulielmum de Guelques.,
M. D. XXXVI. [1536]
Signatures: A-B⁸, a-x⁸.
Title vignette; initials.
Errors in pagination.
The first work, known as Summa Institutionum, explains Justinian's Institutes (text not included) title by title. Edited by Nicolaus Rhodius and originally published in Mainz in 1535; edition lacks prologue, with initium 'Iuris arti professionique ... '
Of the "De varietate actionum libri VI," first published (edited by N. Rhodius) in Mainz in 1530, only books 1 (De rerum vendicationibus) and 2 (De personalibus actionibus) are by Placentinus, now known as his Libellus de actionum varietatibus; book 3, De iudiciis, is now known to be by Bulgarus, and the rest by other 12th-cent. glossators. Cf. Lange, H. Römisches Recht im Mittelalter, Bd. 1 (1997).
Device on title page: an angel-like (winged) Justice; on scroll, motto: In statera Domini pendemus omnes. Device is flanked by Latin "Iustitia Domini manet in aeternum" and Greek [here romanized] "Hē dikaiosynē tou Kyriou menei eis t aiōna" (reprod. Baudrier V:156, no. 9).
Colophon in ornamental setting (as in Baudrier XII:235, no. 4) on p. 233/[335]: Excudebant Lugduni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres, 1536.
Dedicatory epistle by Nicolaus Rhodius Chambergus.
Roman law
Actions and defenses (Roman law)
Netherlands Leiden.