The Reports of That Late and Learned Judge, Thomas Owen

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Title: Corpus Juris Civilis: Pandectis ad Florentinum Archetypum Expressis, Institutionibus, Codice et Novellis, Addito Textu Græco, ut & in Digestis & Codice, Legibus & Constitutionibus Græcis, cum Optimis Quibusque Editionibus Collatis ; cum Notis Integris, Repetitæ Quintum Prælectionis, Dionysii Gothofredi, JC., Præter Justiniani Edicta, Leonis & Aliorum Apostolorum, Græce` & Latine`, Feudorum Libros, Leges XII Tabul. & Alios ad Jus Pertinentes Tractatus, Fastos Consulares, Indicesque Titulorum ac Legum : & Quæcunque in Ultimis Parisiensi Vel Lugdunensi Editionibus Continentur, Huic Editioni Nove` Accesserunt Pauli Receptæ Sententiæ Cum Selectis Notis J. Cujacii et Sparsim ad Universum Corpus Antonii Anselmo ... Observationes Singulares, Remissiones & Notæ Juris Civilis, Canonici, & Novissimi ac in Praxi Recepti Differentiam Continentes ; Denique Lectiones Variæ & Notæ Selectæ Augustini, Belloni, Goveani, Cujacii, Duareni, Russardi, Hotomanni, Contii, Roberti, Rævardi, Charondæ, Grotii, Salmasii & Aliorum.

Publication Info: Amstelodami: apud Joannem Blaeu, Ludovicum, & Danielem Elzevirios ; Lugd. Batavorum : apud Franciscum Hackium, 1663.

Edition: ; 10 p. leaves, 796, [12], 388, [12], 300,92, [39] pages.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as [?] juris civilis. fol. and given by Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore. While the precise title and work are unknown, it is highly likely that Jefferson's notation refers to a copy of Corpus Juris Civilis. Brown's Bibliography[1] includes the 1726, 2 volume, folio edition based in part on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.[2] George Wythe's Library[3] on LibraryThing notes "Precise work/edition unknown. Possibly an edition of Denis Godefroy's Corpus juris civilis."

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433
  2. E. Millicent Sowerby, ‘’Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson’’, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:399-400 [no.2196].
  3. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe