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43 - [LAW – BOLOGNA]. Statuta civilia civitatis Bononiae.
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Estimate €300 - €500
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[LAW – BOLOGNA]. Statuta civilia civitatis Bononiae. Venice: Valgrisi, Alessio, 1566. [BOUND WITH:] Sanctionum ad causas criminales spectantium. Bologna: Rossi, 1577. An important edition of the Civil Statutes of the city of Bologna, reproducing the text of Giovanni Battista Phaello’s 1532 Bologna edition and enriched with the annotations of the Bolognese jurist Ludovico Gozzadini (1479–1536), which are stated here to be published for the first time. The work brings together the municipal statutes, accompanied by glosses, provisions and an extensive analytical index, documenting the civil, administrative and judicial organisation of the city in the sixteenth century. The volume is accompanied by an interesting collection of sixteenth-century Bolognese criminal legislation, centred on the *Sanctiones ad causas criminales spectantium* of 1577, bound together with four further Bolognese legal works from the same century. Statuta civilia: folio (288 × 205 mm). Printer’s mark on the title-page and final leaf; text with marginal glosses and an extensive index; a copy with wide margins. Mid-nineteenth-century binding, with a spine label bearing gilt lettering. [WITH:] Sanctionum ad causas criminales spectantium. Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1577. Folio (323 × 220 mm). Printer’s mark on the title-page and at the colophon. Second-half nineteenth-century half-vellum binding, with a gilt-lettered spine label. Bound together with four further sixteenth-century Bolognese legal works (2)
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