Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 193

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
EIKE VON REPGOW. Sachsenspiegel, corrigirt auffs New. German and Latin text. [18], 264, [116] leaves. Folio, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, spine missing portion at top, chipped at bottom, lacks catches and clasps; contents browned, occasional underscoring and marginalia, wide blank outer margin cropped off final leaf not affecting printer's device, lacks front free endpaper. Leipzig: Nicolaus Wolrab, 1539

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"Compendium of medieval law compiled in Middle Low German by Eike von Repgau between 1220 and 1235. The laws set down are those valid in the region of Lüneburg and the Harz (Ostfalen), but the Sachsenspiegel exercised a considerable influence on legal writing and the drafting of laws throughout Germany" (OCGL).