Promptuarium iuris civilis latinè redditum per Joannem Mercerum [...].

4to: [16]-279-[9] pp. (marg. wormtrack & wormholes to a few quires).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine with ink title, ties. Good copy.

First Lyon edition of Harmenopoulos' Hexabiblos, compilation in six books of Byzantine legal sources based on the "Basilika", corpus of laws completed by order of Emperor Leo VI. The Hexabiblos was widely adopted by Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire. In a translation from the Greek by Jean Mercier (ca. 1545-1600), Professor of Law and Dean of the Law Faculty in Bourges. The Byzantine jurist Harmenopoulos (1320-ca. 1385) was a "katolikos krites" (= universal judge) of Thessalonica. Work in a very neat typography with text decorated with orn. initials of various sizes (some fig. portraits). Bonhomme's mark on title.
Ref. vGültlingen VIII:107:8:229. - Adams H-67. - Pettegree FB 73483. - Hoffmann I:518. - Cp. Baudrier I:240 (1587 ed., "apud G. Loemarium"). - Not in STC French (BL).
Prov. Basilius Cornelius Brouwer, Amsterdam (ms. ownership entry and mention of purchase on 20 July 1567 for 17 stuyvers). - Jesuit college of 's-Hertogenbosch (id.) and later of the college of Jesuits of Alost.