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Volckmannus Emendatus Sive Manuale Advocatorum et Notariorum.

1708réf. 746351708. Leipzig : Verlegt von Johann 1708. Folio. Leipzig : Verlegt von Johann 1708. Folio. Beyer's Rare 1708 Folio Edition of Volckmann's Notariat-Kunst Guide to Notaries in the Holy Roman Empire With a Handsome Title Page Volckmann Adam 1612-1664. Beyer Georg 1665-1714 Editor. Volckmannus Emendatus Sive Manuale Advocatorum et Notariorum: Hand-Buch vor Advocaten und Notarien So Bisshero unter dem Titul: Adam Volckmanns Notariat-Kunst zu Vielen Mahlen Edirt und Gebessert Nunmehr aber Durch und Durch Geandert. Leipzig : Verlegt von Johann Grossens seel. Erben und Johann Friedrich Braun 1708. Three parts in one volume. Folio 13 1/4" x 8 1/4"; 33.5 cm x 21 cm. x 522 i.e. 514; ii 416; 14 200 22 pp. Sections of text in parallel columns. Second and third parts have title pages. Main title page preceded by copperplate pictorial title page featuring a court scene and Lady Justice. Contemporary calf gilt spine with raised bands and gilt title reading Volkmanni Notariat Kunst speckled edges. Moderate rubbing and a few minor scuffs to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities chipping to head of spine front joint cracked corners bumped upper corners moderately worn hinges partially cracked small recent owner inkstamp to front pastedown. Main title page printed in red and black. Moderate toning to interior faint dampstaining to fore-edges of rear quarter of text block spark burns to a few leaves light soiling and fading to pictorial title page offsetting to margins of preliminaries final leaves of text and rear endleaves. A very good crisp copy structurally sound. $2000. Later edition of this foundational manual of early modern civil practice in the Holy Roman Empire. First published in 1624-1625 under the title Informatio Notariorum Volckmann's treatise served as the definitive encyclopedia for Central European notarial practice for well over a century. Unlike common-law notary publics a notary within the Holy Roman Empire was a highly trained jurist of immense stature responsible for drafting complex public instruments codicils and commercial treaties. This 1708 edition is particularly significant due to the extensive textual overhaul by Georg Beyer a towering legal scholar at Wittenberg who is historically celebrated for delivering the first academic lectures on indigenous German law Jus Germanicum separating it from the domi. unknown