OINOTOMUS' RENOWNED COMMENTARY TO THE JUSTINIAN'S INSTITUTIONS

Oinotomus, Johannes. Ioannis Oinotomi iurisconsulti in quatuor Institutionum imperialium Iustiniani imp. libros commentarij : nunc primum ... castigati ac emendati prodeunt ... : necnon indice rerum omnium copiosissimo. Venetiis: apud Benedictum Milochum, 1678.

Folio, contemporary limp vellum (some tears at covers), pp. [4], 608, [52].
Text in Latin, printed in two columns.
Title-page in red and black types, woodcut head and -tail pieces, woodcut head-letters.

The renowned commentary to the Justinian's Institutions written by Joannes Oinotomos (Johann Schneidewein), first printed in 1573 and re-issued many times along the following two centuries.
The text is organized according to the theories of Protestant Reform, whose application Martin Luther charged Philip Melanchton.

Johann Schneidewein (1519-1568), was a famous German jurist, scholar of Martin Luther at Wittenberg. He followed his teacher all along his life, obtaining prestigious political and academic tasks, in the German protestant electorate. He considered a fake the donation of Constantine and, consequently, he deemed illegitimate the temporal power of the Roman papacy.

Provenance: Ownership inscriptions (not identified) at title-page.

References: OCLC 797825520 locates only a copy of this edition in US libraries, at University of California Berkeley Law Library.

A honest copy.