UNCOMMON POCKET EDITION OF LANCELLOTTI'S CANON LAW INSTITUTIONS

Lancellotti, Giovanni Paolo - Doujat, Jean. Institutiones juris canonici, quibus jus pontificium singulari methodo comprehenditur: a Joanne Paulo Lancelotto ... Adjecta sunt hac editione Joannis Doujatii novæ atque uberes notæ, & in gratiam cupidæ canonum juventutis appendix, qua quæ contineantur, indicatur in calce tomi secundi. Tomus primus (-secundus). Venetiis (Venice): ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1740.

12mo (158x92 mm), 2 vol., contemporary parchment binding, handwritten title at flat spine (stark water stain at the lower corner of both boards of the first vol.), pp. 588; 489, [3]; text in Latin; title-pages in b/w characters; woodcut printer devices at title-pages; xylographic head-letters and head-pieces.

A scarce Baglioni's edition of this important text on canon law by Lancellotti, many times re-printed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The Institutiones Iuris Canonici were born, in the original idea, as an official and complete synthesis of all the laws, imitating the Justinian’s Institutiones, from which it was taken the division in 4 books. Despite it never received the formalization from the Pope, the work quickly acquired fame and authority.

Giovan Paolo Lancellotti (1522-1590) was an important personality in the city of Perugia. Teacher of Civil and Canon law he also wrote the Institutionum iuris canonici commentarium (1560), the De comparationeiuris pontificii et caesarei (1574), the Regularum ex universo pontificio iure libri III (1587) and some minor teological works. He also wrote poems and was among the founders of the Academy of Music Unison and member of the literary Academy of Foolish (Accademia letteraria degli Insensati).

Jean Doujat (Ioannes Doviatius o Johannes Duiatius, ca. 1609-1688), lawyer at the Parliament of Toulouse and then to the Parliament of Paris; professor of canon law at the College of France and historian of Louis XIV.

References: IT\ICCU\RAVE\023042 (7 copies, but some of them are not complete). OCLC, 797891557 e 875159698 (4 copies in Italia), 807898293 (1 copy n Spain at the Universitat de Barcelona, CRAI, Barcelona) e 54772562 (1 copy in USA at the University of St Thomas, Saint Paul, MN).

Occasional foxing at both vols.
Stark waterstain at the lower corner of almost all leaves of the first volume, that is poor.
The second volume is a good copy.
Lot not subject to return.