Digestorum seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta.
Contributors: Haloander, Gregor, 1501-1531.
Publisher: Editum Norembergae per Gregorium Haloandrum : munificentia ac liberalitate ampliss. Ordinis ibidem
Published: 1529
Place of publication: [Nuremberg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 2401
Subjects: Roman law.
Other titles: Digestorvm sev Pandectarvm libri qvinqvaginta
Notes: VD 16 C 5246
On t.p. also 6 lines of Greek verse in praise of Justinian and of his Roman-law team, captioned (in Greek alphabet): Eis biblon.
Description of perfect copy based on VD 16.
LC copy imperfect: prelim. section has [48] p. only; all after p. 1497 (Digesta, books 37-50) wanting.
LC copy is bound in 2 physical volumes (v. [1]: [48], 720 p.; v. [2]: [48], 721-1028, [2], 1019-1497 [i.e. 1489], [1] p.); the prelim. matter in v. [2] duplicates (incl. t.p.) that in v. [1].
LC copy has signatures: v. [1]: alpha-zeta⁴ a-z⁴ aa-zz⁴ A-Z⁴ AA-VV⁴(VV4, blank? wanting); v. [2]: alpha-zeta⁴ a-z⁴ A-N⁴ O⁶(O6 blank, omitted in paging) P-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ AA-ZZ⁴ aaa-bbb⁴ ccc⁶(ccc6 blank).
Prelim. matter in LC copy (identical in both physical volumes): "Amplissimo Decurionum Ordini Rei Publicae Norembergens. Gregorius Haloander": prelim. p. [3-7]; this is followed by Justinian's instruction to Tribonianus, further instructions to the remaining collaborators, his decree promulgating the Digesta, a bibliographical list of their sources (Nomina prudentium eorumque libri), and a list of their contents (Tituli cuiusque libri Digestorum seu Pandectarum).
The 2 physical volumes of LC copy are of different provenience and are differently bound; on upper cover of the contemporary binding of v. [2], blind-tooled: Digestorum liber [sic] 50, anno 1530.