Autokratorōn, Ioustinianou, Ioustinou, Leontos nearai diataxeis. Ioustinianou édikta. = Impp. Iustiniani, Iustini, Leonis nouellae constitutiones. Iustiniani edicta. Ex bibliotheca illustris viri Huldrici Fuggeri, domini in Kirchperg & Weyssenhorn, publicae co[m]moditati dicantur. Iustiniani quidem opus antea editum, sed nunc primùm ex vetustis exemplaribus studio & diligentia Henrici Scrimgeri Scoti restitutum atque emendatum, & vigintitribus Co[n]stitutionibus, quae desiderabantur, auctum. Cui & edicta eiusdem imperatoris, non prius edita, ta[n]quam corollarium, accesserunt. Iustini autem & Leonis constitutiones (quae & ipsae in antiquis codicibus nouellae cognominantur) nunquam antea in lucem prolatae.
Emperor Justinian I, Emperor of the East (c.482-565)
Category
Books
Date
1558
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3077528
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 529, [7] p. ; fol. Running number: 6954. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "γ'." [i.e. gamma' = Greek number 3]. Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Jus Civ. 192". Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Nouel. / Justin: / Scrimg:" [this appears to be instructions to the binder for what the title is to be tooled on the spine]. Binding: possibly Switzerland (Geneva?), second half of the sixteenth-century; full brown calf over pasteboards; sewn on five sewing supports; wide gold-tooled border between two fillets of azured or hatched fleurons, curling stems and dotted tools, and gilt arabesque centrepiece of azured fleurons, interlaced stems and dotted tools within circular and curled frame; gold-tooled board edges with single fillet interspersed with foliate roll tool; five raised bands on spine and six compartments, the compartments with eighteenth-century[?] gold-tooling overlaying the original fleuron tooling, the second compartment with remnants of gilt title label; all edges gilt, gauffered with foliate design where the leaves haven't received the gold-leaf and show as the darker colour of the textblock edges underneath; vellum manuscript waste lines the spine. Spine repaired at head and foot.
Makers and roles
Emperor Justinian I, Emperor of the East (c.482-565) Emperor Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor of the East (fl.866-912) Ulricus Fugger (1526-1584), publisher Henry Scrimger (1506-1572), editor Henri Estienne (1531-1598), printer