Volumen Justiniani solertissime reuolutum
Subtitle: q[uo]d totius legalis sapie[n]tie exhibet complementum. Co[m]plectitur enim libros Auctentico[rum]: tres libros Codicis, librum de Feudis. Et tractatu[s] de pace [Con]sta[n]tien[sis]. Cu[m] tabellis [et] apparatu solito: vn[de] sunt seque[n]tes [ver]siculi. Ad lectorem ... [followed by 12 lines]
Publisher: André Bocard; Jean Petit
Published: 1515
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Subjects: Roman law; Early works to 1800; Novellae constitutiones
Other titles: Volumen Justiniani solertissime revolutum
Work titles: Novellae constitutiones
Notes: Device of publisher Jean Petit on title page (Renouard, P. Les marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles, no. 890)

First letters of the 12 lines following title are printed in red and arranged vertically to spell out "COMPLEMENTUM."

Imrpint information from colophon.

Printed in black and red.

Illustration: emperor with his council ([sec]8 verso)

Decorative initials.

Signatures: [sec]⁸ a-t⁸ v¹⁰ A-T⁸ V⁶.

Quarto in 8s.

Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, v. 2, p. 303, no. 1062

Renouard, P. Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle, v. 5, p. 43 no. 44

On title page are early ownership inscriptions, one dated 1571.

Copy incomplete: lacking leaves [sec]8 and S8.

With this is bound: Institutionum imperatoriu[m] argume[n]tum. ... (Paris : Thielman Kerver, 1509).

Bound in early calf over wooden boards, covers decorated in blind with decorative rolls; remains of brass clasps on front and back covers; front and back pastedowns of early manuscript waste; rebacked.