Barthelemy de Chasseneux


Consuetudines Ducatus Burgundiae, fereque totius Galliae



Lyon, Antonium Vincentius, 1552


Folio.  Size 9 by 13.5"

 Printer's device on the title page, two engraved plates depicting the Arbor Civilis and the Arbor de Successionibus


minor  browning, faded dampstain in first about 40 pages,

Re-bound using original leather binding, new endpapers

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Barthelemy de Chasseneuz (1480–1541) was a French jurist.

His principal work is the Commentaria in consuetudines ducatus Burgundiae , the first substantial and scientific commentary on the "droit coutumier" or French customary law.
The work was widely cited in France and abroad, and was even used centuries later to help interpret the Code Napoleon. This is due to the work's extensive coverage of Roman law, which unlike in other parts of France featured strongly in Burgundian customary law.

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