Digestum vetus
Subtitle: Digestorum seu Pandectarum iuris enucleati ex omni iure veteri in libros quinquaginta collecti authoritate sacratissimi principis Dn. Iustiniani Augusti tomus primus (Digestum vetus vulgò vocant) : primam, secundam, tertia[m], ac quartae partis libros quatuor & quinti titulos duos continens : ita in vniuersum ex Pandectis Florentinis recognitus, emendatus, vt nihil quod ad puram putam eorum librorum lectionem attinet desiderari possit : adiecimus pluribus locis annotationes ex doctissimorum virorum commentarijs ...
Publisher: Apud Hugonem à Porta, & Antonium Vincentium
Published: 1551
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1509
Subjects: Roman law.
Other titles: Digestvm vetvs
Notes: Adams J-569
Issued with 5 other volumes (all in 1551) to comprise an edition of the complete Corpus juris civilis. Cf. Baudrier, Bib. lyonnaise, VII, p. 329-330 (with, however, prelim. matter 22 leaves, signed aaa⁶ bbb⁸ [alpha]-[beta]⁴)
Printed in black and red, the main part in 2 columns; layout is that of text with all-around gloss.
Device of Hugues de la Porte in association with Antoine Vincent on t.p. (reprod. in Baudrier, VII, p. 298).
Signatures: aaa⁴ bbb-lll⁸ 2[alpha]-2[beta]⁴ a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Zz⁸ AA-ZZ⁸ aa-bb⁸ cc⁴. Leaves bbb8, lll8, and cc4 are blank.
Description of perfect copy based on Adams.
Includes indexes (prelim. p. [25-159] [more?])
LC copy imperfect: sig. 2[alpha]-2[beta] and the folding diagrams wanting.