16th Century legal text with a binding waste trio from the 12th to 15th centuries by Cicero and Saint Augustine of Hippo.

"16th Century legal text with a binding waste trio from the 12th to 15th centuries by Cicero and Saint Augustine of Hippo."

 Andrea Tiraquelli’s “De Utroque rectractu municipali, et conventionali, commentary duo”

Printed in Lyon by the celebrated printed Guillaume Rouillé in 1571 

Complete – Folio – [8],798,[102] 

This is an edition of a popular French civil law text by Andre Tiraqueau – a leading French lawyer of his age. Based in Poitou, he worked as a counsellor to the Parlement of Paris and applied humanist principles to law, moving away from medieval jurisprudence. He was patron to François Rabelais, and according to Pierre Bayle, is said to have fathered 45 children(!)

 This copy is interesting in that in is bound by three manuscript fragments:

 -c1200 protogothic commentary on Psalm 131 by Saint Augustine of Hippo 

-c15th Century (?Batarde) fragment of Cicero’s rhetoric - “Rhetorica ad Herennium”

-c15th Century unidentified legal text

 Good condition but text toned. Contemporary vellum binding in 4 fragments with wear, stains and some loosening. Plain vellum around spine with 1 fragment on front board and 2 fragments on rear board.