Placentini iurisconsulti vetustissimi in summam Institutionu[m] siue elementorum D. Iustiniani sacratiss. principis nunc denuò recogniti libri IIII
Subtitle: eiusdem, De uarietate actionum libri VI.
Contributors: Rhodius, Nicolaus, fl. 1530-1535.; Placentinus, Petrus, d. 1192.; Bulgarus, d. 1166 or 7.
Publisher: Apud Ioan. Frellaeum et Gulielmum de Guelques
Published: 1536
Place of publication: Lugd. [Lyon]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Institutiones.; Actions and defenses (Roman law); Courts -- Rome.
Other titles: Placentini ivrisconsvlti vetvstissimi in summam Institutionu[m]; In summam Institutionum libri IIII
Notes: Baudrier, H.L.  Bib. lyonnaise, V, p. 173
The first work, known as Summa Institutionum, explains Justinian's Institutes (text not included) title by title. Edited by Nicolaus Rhodius and first published in Mainz in 1535; edition lacks prologue, with initium 'Iuris arti professionique ...'
Of the "De varietate actionum libri VI," first published (edited by N. Rhodius) in Mainz in 1530, only books 1 (De rerum vendicationibus) and 2 (De personalibus actionibus) are by Placentinus, now known as his Libellus de actionum varietatibus; book 3, De iudiciis, is now known to be by  Bulgarus, and the rest by other 12th-cent. glossators. Cf. Lange, H. Römisches Recht im Mittelalter, Bd. 1 (1997).
Device on t.p.: an angel-like (winged) Justice; on scroll, motto: In statera Domini pendemus omnes. Device is flanked by Latin "Iustitia Domini manet in aeternum" and Greek [here romanized] "Hē dikaiosynē tou Kyriou menei eis t aiōna" (reprod. Baudrier V:156, no. 9).
Colophon in ornamental setting (as in Baudrier XII:235, no. 4) on p. 233/[335]: Excudebant Lugduni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres, 1536.
Signatures: A-B⁸ a-x⁸. Pagination faulty beginning with sig. h8b.
Includes index.