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(MAGDEBURG LAW.) Sechsisch Weichbild, Lehenrecht, und Remissorium. [6], 161, [1]; 121, [1]; [128] leaves. Folio, 306x192 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin with brass cornerpieces, catches, and clasps, concentric rolls including Crucifixion/Annunciation/Resurrection around allegorical panel stamps of Justice and Lucretia on covers, front cover additionally stamped H*K*D*E and dated 1568; contents lightly browned, conspicuous worming in blank upper corners of preliminaries, upper outer corner of front free endpaper excised. 19th-century stamp of University of Strasbourg Library (duplicate). (Bautzen: Nikolaus Wolrab for Paul and Franz Kretschmar), 1557
The medieval town law of Magdeburg, or Sächsisches Weichbild, became the most widely-followed model for German municipalities in Central and Eastern Europe. This edition comprises the Magdeburg law, the portion on feudal law from the Sachsenspiegel, the most influential Saxon legal work of the Middle Ages, and a topical index to both. With the bookplate of the legal scholar Guido Kisch (1889-1986), who specialized in the history of German law, particularly as it applied to Jews in medieval society.
