Fragmenta Libri Singularis Regularum, Et Incerti Auctoris Collatio..

1768. Utrecht: Apud Guilielmum Henricum Kroon, 1768.. Utrecht: Apud Guilielmum Henricum Kroon, 1768. Attractive 1768 Edition of Ulpian's Fragmenta Ulpian [c.170-228]. Cannegieter, Johannes [1731-1804], Commentary. Fragmenta Libri Singularis Regularum, Et Incerti Auctoris Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum, Quibus Notas Adjecit Joannes Cannegieter, Advocatus in Curia Gelrica. Accedunt Ejusdem Disquisitio de Notis, Et Siglis Veterum, Et Observationum Miscellanearum Liber Singularis. Utrecht: Apud Guilielmum Henricum Kroon, 1768. viii, 539 pp. Quarto (10-3/4" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary textured paper boards, block-printed spine with hand-lettered title label, edges untrimmed. Light rubbing and soiling to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, light fading to spine, light wear to joints, lower outside corner of front pastedown folded. Moderate toning to interior, light browning to last half of text block, light foxing and small faint marginal stains in a few places, a few cracks to text block, all leaves secure, small later bookplate (of Pietro Buoninsegni, dated 1814) to foot of title page. An appealing, wide-margined copy. $650. * First edition with commentary by Cannegieter. An eminent Roman jurist and important legal authority, Ulpian is principally known as a primary contributor to Justinian's Digest; approximately a third of its contents are drawn from his works, which are characterized by their methodical arrangement and lucid style. Much of his work only survives in fragments, of which Fragmenta, first edited by Tilius in 1549, collects 29. Cannegieter was a professor of law in Groningen. A second and final edition was published in Leiden and Utrecht in 1774. OCLC locates 6 copies of the 1768 edition in North America, 3 in law libraries (Columbia, Northwestern, University of Michigan). Dekkers, Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica 32.