Various authors

COLLECTION OF LEGAL WRITINGS

Frankfurt am Main, 1608 and 1611, and Speyer, 1610
Format 8°, 19.2x15 cm. Title pages printed in black, bearing printer`s devices. Headpieces, vignettes, 1 folding plate, manuscript notes on the front flyleaf and title page. Bound together in a full vellum binding, spine with 4 raised bands and manuscript labels. Paul Matthias Wehner (1583-1612): Practicarum iuris observationum augustissimae Camerae imperialis liber singularis. 392 numbered pages, in Latin (and German). Published by Wolfgang Richter at the expense of Johann Theobald Schönwetter in Frankfurt am Main in 1608. The main text is written in Latin but contains a large number of German legal and procedural terms. Hermann Meyrer: TRACTATUS DE PIGNORIBUS ET HYPOTHECIS, ET PRIVILEGIIS CREDITORUM. 240 numbered pages, in Latin. Published by Nikolaus Hoffmann at the expense of Jonas Rosa in Frankfurt am Main in 1611. Thomas Michael of Soest and Kaspar Klock (1583-1655): DISPVTATIONES II. THEORICO-PRACTICAE: Prior DE SS. CAESAREAE MAIESTATIS, CAMERAS, STATVVM IMPERII ET ALIORVM MAGISTRATVVM. 182 numbered pages, in Latin. Published by Johann Taschner in Speyer in 1610. Wolfgang Grüning (1562-1615): Qvæstio Perpvlchra Vtrvm Dignitas Doctoralis Avt Alterivs gradus assumptio dedecoret, aut obfuscet generis nobilitatem? Unpaginated (50 leaves), in Latin. Published by Johann Taschner in Speyer in 1610. An example of the specialized professional library of a contemporary lawyer, advocate, or judicial councillor in the Holy Roman Empire in the period immediately preceding the Thirty Years` War (1608-1611). All the works focus on the theory, academic debate, and procedural practice of Roman-German law.