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MISCELLANEOUS,
sMentz ; 1475,
excessive rarity and value of a copy of this work (like the present)
upon vellum, may be estimated by the one here described having been
purchased at the Lomenie sale for 1879 livres. It is in fine preservation,
and bound in blue morocco.
722. JUSTINIANUS. CODEX NoVUS : CUM GlOSSIS.
Printed hy Peter Schoysser. Mentz. 1475.
Folio.
The very copious account of the preceding Mentz impression, pre-
cludes the necessity of an extended description of the present edi-
tion. Panzer however has properly arranged it under its peculiar
title; vol. ii. p. 126, n D. 36 : and Frisner and Sensenschmid printed
this work in the same year: Id. vol. ii. p. 172, n°. 23. But it
may be mateiial to remark (with Brunet) that those bibliogra-
phers are in error who describe this volume as comprehending the
Institutes of Justinian :—on the contrary, it contains what Black-
stone calls * A new Code, or Collection of Imperial Constitutions, in
twelve books; the lapse of a whole century having rendered the former
code of Theodosius imperfect.’ Commentaries, Introd. Section III. The
present is the editio princeps, with the commentary, of this latter
work; and will be treasured accordingly. From Wiirdtwein we learn (on
tlie previous authority of Mentelin, as seen in Wolfii Monumenta Typo-
graphica, vol. ii. p. 3S9-393) that, in this same year of 1475, Lewis Xlth
of France granted a diploma, or privilege, to Conrad Kanequis and
Schoeffer, ‘ Marchands bourgeois de la cite de Majence en Allemagne,’
for the sale of certain works: on some litigation between them and
Herman de Stateren—which need not be further noticed in this place.
We return therefore to the volume before us: the recto of which
presents us with the following prefix, printed in red :
nomine fcomim lto^m iljc-
£u rpi €otticig iitotiniani £acra
tissinii ptincipi^ pnctui augu-
sti. rcpctitc plcctionijS 3!ncipit
jsto be nouo cotiice facietio*
It is evident, from the blank space beneath this prefix, tliat it was the
intention of the printer that it should be filled by an ornament of the
MISCELLANEOUS,
sMentz ; 1475,
excessive rarity and value of a copy of this work (like the present)
upon vellum, may be estimated by the one here described having been
purchased at the Lomenie sale for 1879 livres. It is in fine preservation,
and bound in blue morocco.
722. JUSTINIANUS. CODEX NoVUS : CUM GlOSSIS.
Printed hy Peter Schoysser. Mentz. 1475.
Folio.
The very copious account of the preceding Mentz impression, pre-
cludes the necessity of an extended description of the present edi-
tion. Panzer however has properly arranged it under its peculiar
title; vol. ii. p. 126, n D. 36 : and Frisner and Sensenschmid printed
this work in the same year: Id. vol. ii. p. 172, n°. 23. But it
may be mateiial to remark (with Brunet) that those bibliogra-
phers are in error who describe this volume as comprehending the
Institutes of Justinian :—on the contrary, it contains what Black-
stone calls * A new Code, or Collection of Imperial Constitutions, in
twelve books; the lapse of a whole century having rendered the former
code of Theodosius imperfect.’ Commentaries, Introd. Section III. The
present is the editio princeps, with the commentary, of this latter
work; and will be treasured accordingly. From Wiirdtwein we learn (on
tlie previous authority of Mentelin, as seen in Wolfii Monumenta Typo-
graphica, vol. ii. p. 3S9-393) that, in this same year of 1475, Lewis Xlth
of France granted a diploma, or privilege, to Conrad Kanequis and
Schoeffer, ‘ Marchands bourgeois de la cite de Majence en Allemagne,’
for the sale of certain works: on some litigation between them and
Herman de Stateren—which need not be further noticed in this place.
We return therefore to the volume before us: the recto of which
presents us with the following prefix, printed in red :
nomine fcomim lto^m iljc-
£u rpi €otticig iitotiniani £acra
tissinii ptincipi^ pnctui augu-
sti. rcpctitc plcctionijS 3!ncipit
jsto be nouo cotiice facietio*
It is evident, from the blank space beneath this prefix, tliat it was the
intention of the printer that it should be filled by an ornament of the