CUJAS (Jacques. 1522-1590)

Jacobi Cujacii juris-consultorum nostri saeculi principis, et primi opera omnia quae prodierunt auctore vel superstite vel defuncto priora ad optimae exemplaria sun emendata: posterivra, quae passimerant corrupta ad...& verum auctoris dictatum restitua et in quatuor voluminar distincta studio et diligentiae Alexandri Scott, Scoti juris consulti. Lugduni, sumptibus Joannis Pillehotte, 1606. Four strong folio volumes (37x24 cm), contemporary calf (headbands torn off and missing, corners dulled and missing), ribbed spine. Printer's mark on title, portrait of Jacques Cujas Cujas by Jacques de Zettre. Double-columned text, over 2000 pages per volume (traces of wetness in volumes I, II and III III, marginal wormhole on 250 pages in volume II). Jacques Cujas is considered one of the leading figures of Renaissance legal humanism; in this work, he applies an encyclopedic approach to knowledge for the study of law.