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(SAXON LAW.) Sachsenspiegel. Auffs newe ubersehen, mit Summariis und newen Additionen. Edited by Christoph Zobel. Title in red and black, with full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee, August, Elector of Saxony, on verso. [6], 571, [43] leaves. Folio, 331x213 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, worn, lacking catches and clasps; scattered marginal soiling and foxing, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, old partly scored inscriptions on title, wormtrail through last several leaves not impairing legibility. Leipzig: (Ernst Vögelin), 1560
The most important medieval compilation of Saxon customary law, composed in the early 13th century by Eike von Repgow. Sarton II, 529. With the bookplate of Guido Kisch.
