Elementa, siue, Institutiones iuris ciuilis
By: diui Iustiniani principis imperio a Triboniano, Dorotheo, ac Theophilo triumuiris conscriptae ; nunc multo diligentius quàm quae hactenus exierunt emendatae labore & opera Hieronymi Messaggii. Fontes iuris civilis, ac Duodecim tabularum leges siue fragmenta : quibus accesserunt Aldobrandini & aliorum clarissimorum iureconsultorum lucubrationes & luculentissimae annotationes, lectionum denique varietates, ac multorum locorum ... castigationes / hac postera editione a M.D. Leonardo a Lege ... recognitae, & plerisque in locis instauratae.
Contributors: Messaggio, Girolamo, fl. 1558.; Aldobrandini, Silvestro, 1499-1558.; Lege, Leonardus a, 16th cent.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1572
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Roman law.
Other titles: Elementa, sive, Institvtiones ivris civilis; Institutiones iuris ciuilis; Fontes iuris ciuilis.
Notes: All-around gloss; printed in black and red.
"Fontes iuris ciuilis" (prelim. leaves [47]a-[48]a)  give "Leges Romuli" (18 items) and "Quaedam Duodecim tabularum capita" (60 items), rather questionable versions of fragments of Antejustinian legal sources.
Device on t.p.: basilisk fighting a bird, with motto "Terrena coelestibus obsunt"; in an architectural frame.
Colophon: Venetijs, Apud Franciscum Rampazetum, 1572.
Dedicatory letter of H. Messaggius to Senator Federicus Baduarius (prelim. leafs [2]) is dated 1558.
Each of the four books of the Institutions is introduced by a 45 x 80 mm woodcut depicting scenes related to the main themes of the book; on leaf [212]a, a representation of the "arbor civilis."
Signatures: a-f⁸ A-2Z⁸. 2Z7 and 2Z8, blank? wanting in LC copy.
Includes indexes.