Institoutiones Theophilou Antikensoros (Graece). Institutiones Juris Civilis in Graecam linguam per Theophilum Anticensorem traductae: ac fusissime planissimeque explicatae, cura et studio Viglii Zuichemi primum in lucem editae, nunc denuo a Rutgero Rescio recognite, adiectis etiam aliquot Petri Nannii annotatiunculis. Eximiam autem harum utilitatem Viglii praefatio ad Opt. Max. Imp. Carolum abunde declarat. Lovanii, ex officina Rutgeri Rescii, 1536. RELIE AVEC (inséré à la suite des feuillets préliminaires de l'ouvrage précédent): 2). NANNINCK (Pierre). Apologie super Annotatiunculis in Theophilum, adversus quendam Jacobum Curtium. Lovanii, ex officina Rutgeri Rescii, Mense Novemb. 1536.

2 works in 1 volume, 4to. 1). 24 leaves. 463 pages. 2). 12 leaves. Full vellum with overlapping fore-edges, flat spine with inked title (18th century binding). 1). Very rare edition, printed in Leuven, of the Greek paraphrase of the Institutes of Justinian, by one of its original editors. Theoophilus was a Byzantine jurisconsult who lived in the 6th century AD and taught jurisprudence in Constantinople. Regarded as the best commentary on the Insititutes and including valuable information on the peculiarities of ancient Roman law, this Greek paraphrase of the Latin original was first published in Basel in 1534 by the Dutch jurisconsult Van Zuichem (1507-1577). This edition is due to the Dutch humanist and printer Rutgerus Rescius (d. 1557); a friend of Erasmus and a distinguished Hellenist, he was Vesale's Greek teacher and first publisher. The book includes the previously unpublished notes of the Dutch scholar and humanist Pieter Nanninck (1500-1557), a law professor at the University of Leuven - where the publication of this edition provoked heated debate about the interpretation of the Greek text. 2). First Edition. Very rare response from Pierre Nanninck to Jacobus Curtius Brugensis, a professor of law in Leuven and a former pupil of Rescius and Juan Luis Vivès. That same year 1536, Curtius Brugensis had published a commented Latin translation of the Greek paraphrases of Theophilus, in which he offered a diverging interpretation from that of Rescius and Nanninck. A tear in the margin of the last page of the second work, affecting a few characters. A very good copy otherwise.