Perneder, Andreas. Institutiones. Auszug un[d] Anzaigung etlicher geschriben kayserlichen unnd des heyligen Reichs Rechte [...]. Mit ainer Vorrede des [...] Wolffgang Hunger [...].

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Fourth (II and III: fifth) editions. The law book of the Bavarian jurist Perneder (ca. 1500-1543), fist published posthumously in 1544, was frequently re-issued with an increasing number of appendices and soon advanced to become the leading instruction book of its age. "As late as the 17th century, Perneder's 'Halsgerichtsordnung' served as Germany's standard code of criminal law. Based on manuscript copies, all his works were published, from 1544 onwards, by the Ingolstadt professor Wolfgang Hunger" (cf. DBE). The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie counts no fewer than 21 editions, all supplied with introductions by Hunger: they were "the most widely used and indeed the best writings of their kind aimed at wide audiences, and constitute [...] the earliest attempt by an experienced practitioner at harmonizing native and foreign law into a single system that might resemble a legal code".

Title-page shows traces of ink-pencil. Some worming to blank margins near the end; final leaves have waterstains and paper flaws as well as slight corner damage without text loss. The blindstamped binding has slight traces of worming; upper cover tinted red. The roll-tools used (Resurrection - David - St Paul: Haebler I, 279, 7; Crucifix - Brazen Serpent - Fall of Adam - Resurrection: Haebler II, 32, 6) suggest that the binding is the work of the Dresden bookbinder Balthasar Metzger, possibly around the year 1556.