Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MANUSCRIPT.) Hieronymi Lampugnani Introductio Ad Jurisprudentiam. manuscript in latin on paper, written in small neat cursive hand in black ink. Hand-drawn title within border of flowers, birds, and insects; similarly decorated divisional initials and embellishments in text. [1], 25, [1], 26-92, [1], 93-226, [12] leaves. 129x93 mm, contemporary brown morocco elaborately gilt with unidentified arms on covers, bottom of spine chipped, cover corners worn through; marginal dampstaining mainly at beginning and end, scattered foxing and soiling. Italy, 17th century

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Fair copy of an apparently unpublished introduction to jurisprudence, distinct from the guide to the study of civil and canon law published as an appendix to Lampugnagni's 1627 book on the Institutes of Justinian.