Institutionum D. Iustiniani Sacratissimi Imperatoris libri quatuor
Subtitle: ad vetustissimorum simul et emendatissimorum exemplarium fidem summa diligentia recogniti, emendati : cum scholiis accursii
By: adiecimus pluribus locis annotationes ex doctissimorum hominum commentariis, ex quibus non parum lucis ac dignitatis his iuris ciuilis elementis accedit ; accessit corpus legum, antea non impressum, ac Caij Institutionum libri duo.
Contributors: Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.; Perrino, Egidio, fl. 1508-1533.; La Porte, Hugues de, d. 1572, publisher.; St. John's Seminary (Brighton, Mass.).
Publisher: Apud Hugonem à Porta
Published: 1558
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 558
Subjects: Roman law.
Other titles: Institvtionvm D. Ivstiniani Sacratissimi Imperatoris libri qvatvor
Work titles: Institutiones.
Notes: "Iustiniani vita. Aegidii Perrini Arremarensis": p. [3]-[6] at front.

Issued with 5 other volumes (1556-1558) to comprise an edition of the complete Corpus juris civilis. Cf. Baudrier, VII, p. 335-336.

Variant of the 1558 folio edition described by Baudrier, which lacks place of publication on t.p. and has colophon "Lvgdvni Excudebat Ioannes Ausultus" on last numbered leaf. This edition has no colophon.

Signatures: †-††⁸ a-r⁸ s⁴.

Printer's device (identified by Baudrier as Silvestre 983) on t.p.; initials (some historiated).

Title in red and black; running titles and some text in red.

Text and surrounding commentaries in double columns; printed marginalia.

Page [1] at end is blank.

Numbers 185-186 repeated and 187-188 omitted in numbering of columns.

Includes indexes.

Volumen parvum (Corpus juris civilis). Volumen. Lugduni : Apud Hugonem à Porta, 1558.

Baudrier, H.L. Bib. lyonnaise, VII, p. 336 (Variant)

St. John's Seminary Library ; loan ; 2008.

Burns Library copy on loan from St. John's Seminary: bookplate on front pastedown: Library of St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts.