Schilter, Johann. Codex juris Alemannici feudalis prout is in comitiis Noricis anno MCCIIX [...].

€ 450.00

First edition.

Bilingual edition of the Alemannic code of feudal law by the jurist and professor at the Strasbourg university, Schilter (1632-1705), who was celebrated for his "pioneering work" (cf. ADB) in this field. The present copy includes a transcript of the code of law in the original Low German text, accompanied by a Latin version "providing a new edition of the text" (cf. Stintzing/Landsberg), as well as the introduction ("praefatio"), which is bound after the five-page index. Lacks the commentary and the "Sachsenspiegel" as well as the chapter on feudal succession ("Commentatio ad libri secundi consuetudinum feudorum titulum quinquagesimum de natura successionis feudalis") and the legal texts by Anton Mincucci, Bartolomeo Baraterio, Anton Dadin Alteserra and Marc-Antoine Dominicy, frequently bound with the main title. However, three of the four plates (all bound immediately after the table of contents) belong to Mincucci and Barateri, while the fourth one shows the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, corresponding to paragraph XIV of the introduction. Schilter's 12-page "Mantissa" from 1699, not usually found in this compilation, is bound between the plates and the main part.

Pages 96-104 rather browned. Slightly brownstained throughout. A well-preserved, sympathetically rebacked copy.