E libris constitutionum Theodosii A. libri priores octo
Subtitle: longè meliores quàm adhuc circunferebantur
By: sed ab Alarico rege Gotthorum ita deminuti, vt vix decima pars in his hodie appareat eoru[m], quae in Theodosiano codice continebantur. Posteriores octo integri / nunc primùm post M. annos in lucem reuocati à Io. Tilio Engolism. ; dicati Io. Bertrando V. C. Curiae Parisiorum praesidi ...
Contributors: Du Tillet, Jean, d. 1570 Oct. 2; Du Tillet, Jean, d. 1570 Dec. 15.
Publisher: Apud Carolam Guillard sub sole aureo, & Gulielmum Desboys sub cruce alba, Via ad diuum Iacobum
Published: 1550
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Roman law.
Other titles: E libris constitvtionum Theodosii A. libri priores octo; Lex Romana Visigothorum.; Codex Theodosianus. Book 9-16.; E libris constitutionum Theodosii libri posteriores octo integri.
Notes: Adams T-544
The first pt. ("libri priores octo") presents the partial texts of the otherwise unpreserved books 1-8 as far as included in the Lex Romana Visigothorum (Breviarium Alarici).
The 2nd part has its own t.p. (sig. [dagger]1a): E libris constitutionum Theodosii libri posteriores octo integri / nunc primùm post M. annos in lucem reuocati à Io. Tilio Engolism. ; dicati Io. Bertrando V. C. Curiae Parisiorum praesidi ... Parisiis : [s.n.], M.D.L.
Editorship of the 2nd pt., editio princeps (from ms. Vat. reginae 886) of the preserved books 9-16 of Codex Theodosianus (sig. a-z. A-O) is ascribed to Jean Du Tillet, Bp. of Meaux (d. 15 Dec. 1570) by L. Wenger (Die Quellen des römischen Rechts, 1953, p. 539, n. 84); to his brother by same name, sieur de Bussi`ere (d. 2 Oct. 1570) by the Dict. de biog. française (t. 12, 1970).
Collation (as to order of the parts) based on Adams.
Signatures: *⁶ aa-gg⁸ hh⁴ ii²; [dagger]⁶ a-z⁸ A-N⁸ O² (arrangement given here based on Adams)
LC copy has the signatures as follows: *⁶ [dagger]⁶ a-z⁸ A-N⁸ O² aa-gg⁸ hh⁴ ii²; this places the text (but not the t.p.) of the books 9-16 of the Theodosian code before the text of the "libri octo priores" and makes the collation: [24], 580, 123, [1] p.