1559 CODEX DN. IUSTINIANI antique 16th CENTURY FOLIO Code of Justinian

CODEX DN. IUSTINIANI

Parisis: Guillaume Marlin & Gulielinum Desboys, and Sebastien Nivelle; 1559


Folio. Size 9 by 13 1/4"


Leather binding over wooden boards, spine with raised bands , marbled endpapers and edges.

Some wear of binding, damages to the ends of the spine, very good interior

Text in Latin
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The Code of Justinian (Latin: Codex Justinianus, Justinianeus or Justiniani) is one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople.

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