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Jacobi Cuiacii ic. praestantissimi Opera omnia in decem tomos distributa : quibus continentur tam priora, sive quæ ipse superstes edi curauit; quam posteriora, sive quae post obitum eius edita sunt, vel nunc primum prodeunt

Cujas, Jacques, 1522-1590, Fabrot, Charles Annibal, 1580-1659, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL · 1658 · Lutetiæ Parisiorum [Paris] : Impensis Societatis Typrographicæ Librorum Officij Ecclesiatici ... · 40 pictures

A 1658 Paris edition of the collected legal works of Jacques Cujas, the sixteenth-century French jurist, edited by Charles Annibal Fabrot, printed for scholars of Roman law. The pictures are headpieces and tailpieces: narrow horizontal woodcut friezes with a central oval medallion surrounded by a starburst and flanking kneeling angels, with page numbers in the top corners, offering a designer a model for symmetrical ornamental bands framing a central emblem.

Corpus juris civilis · Roman law

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