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1497 · rif. 045371 — Venice: Baptista de Tortis 1497. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early full stamped pigskin with one clasp missing a bit of wear at the corners some discoloration and staining - very sound overall. With the title in red excised and pasted back onto a blank a few library stamps NY Bar Association Library minor worming mostly at the end printers mark excised from the final index leaf and repaired on the verso old paper repairs to the margins of the final leaves obscuring the leaf number on the final leaf a few stains here and there but generally clean and a bright crisp copy overall. Printed in red and black 270 numbered leaves 2 binder's blanks at front 3 at the rear. Printed 1497/8 15 1/2 x 10 1/3 inches from 70-82 lines. An attractive copy of Justinian's Infortiatum the middle section of the Digest with the gloss by the 13th century scholar Accursius. His glosses occupy a central place in medieval law as they were so copious almost 100000 glosses and in depth that the glosses themselves were sometimes given the force of law. A fine and rare edition just 11 copies listed in the ISTC ij00561000 only 4 outside of Germany and none in the United States. The second edition with the Clarius Summaria the first was 1491. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Incunabula. Inventory No: 045371. Baptista de Tortis hardcover