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Beautiful first edition of this rare and interesting juridical work on children's privileges and immunities

VERTRANIUS MAURUS, Marcus.
De Iure liberorum liber singularis.

With woodcut printer's device within large woodcut ornamented borders on title, woodcut head and tail-pieces, and large woodcut initials in text.

With woodcut printer's device within large woodcut ornamented borders on title, woodcut head and tail-pieces, and large woodcut initials in text.

With woodcut printer's device within large woodcut ornamented borders on title, woodcut head and tail-pieces, and large woodcut initials in text.

With woodcut printer's device within large woodcut ornamented borders on title, woodcut head and tail-pieces, and large woodcut initials in text.

With woodcut printer's device within large woodcut ornamented borders on title, woodcut head and tail-pieces, and large woodcut initials in text.



Lyon, Jean de Tournes, G. Gazeau, 1558. 4to. Contemp. limp vellum. With woodcut printer's device within large woodcut ornamented borders on title, woodcut head and tail-pieces, and large woodcut initials in text. (16), 181, (15) pp.

Beautiful first edition of this rare and interesting juridical work on children's privileges and immunities in Roman law. Published by one of the foremost printers in Lyon, one of the important centres of printing in sixteenth-century Europe, the present edition is well produced - "une belle édition" according to Cartier - printed in fine roman and italic types, with nice woodcut initials.
The author was a pupil of Emilio Ferreti (1489-1552), professor in law at Rome and secretary to Leo X, later professor at Avignon. In the second half of the sixteenth century, Vertranius worked in Lyon as  a lawyer and humanist. He was also the editor of the works of Terentius, and Tacitus published at Lyon, by Gryphius, and he wrote commentaries on Varro's De lingua Latina.
The present work is the only separate work by this author. Divided into 48 chapters, it gives a historical survey of the 'jus liberorum' the rights and the legal position of children, comparing the Digesta, the Codex Justiniani, the Codex Theodosiani, but also what can be found on the subject in literary works by Cicero, Plinius, Suetonis, etc. The present edition was edited by the French lawyer and poet Philibert Bugnyon, who signed the dedication. The text was later included in the series Tractatus universi juris, published in Venice, 1584, and in Everhard Otto's Thesaurus juris Romani continens rariora meliorem interpretum opuscula, Leiden and  Utrecht, 1725.

Fine copy of this rare work work.- (Sl. waterstained).
STC French p. 438; Cartier, De Tournes II, nr. 426; not in Baudrier; not in Adams; cf. for the woodcut border Cartier I, p.94, and for the printer's device Cartier I, p. 38 'vip.m.'

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Law 

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