Item #167 Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata. Chonrad Wölfflin, Konrad, Conradus Wolefius.
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata
Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata

Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata

Publisher: Frankfurt am Main: Jacob Stoer, 1589.

Edition: Editio tertia, ita aucta et locupletata, emendataque, ut quasi nova appareat.

Binding: Contemporary limp vellum, worn and heavily soiled, with losses to spine covering and portions of vellum detached. Evidence of early manuscript binder’s waste beneath. Text block complete and holding.

Description: Important Frankfurt printing (1589) of Wölfflin’s Institutionum Imperialium Succincta Erotemata, a Renaissance-era legal manual designed to teach and interpret the Roman Institutes within the framework of the Holy Roman Empire. This third edition, “quasi nova,” presents the text in question-and-answer (erotemata) format, a pedagogical method central to late 16th-century legal education.

The printer, Jacob Stoer, was a prominent Frankfurt publisher of scholarly and legal works, also active in Geneva, and known for his role in disseminating Protestant humanist texts across Europe.

Provenance: Early handwritten inscriptions on title-page and endleaves, including ownership signatures and a long French manuscript poem/meditation bound in at rear, referencing themes of divine protection and mortality (“la Cour de Gloire… la belle patrie…”). Such manuscript additions enrich the volume, offering a tangible link to its scholarly and devotional use in the early modern period. Marginalia also present throughout, with legal notes and references.

Despite its worn state, the copy has strong character: unsophisticated, in its original limp vellum binding with evidence of use by multiple owners. For collectors, this is a prime example of a working Renaissance law book, valued not for pristine presentation but for its historical depth, provenance, and survival.

Of special interest to collectors and institutions in Roman law, Holy Roman Empire jurisprudence, Frankfurt printing, and annotated Renaissance legal manuals.

Condition: Fair. Limp vellum binding heavily worn, detached in places, with vellum losses and crude repairs. Spine partially perished. Text block intact; paper toned but strong, with scattered marginalia. Extensive manuscript ownership inscriptions and a bound-in French devotional poem at rear. Complete.

Annotation: Third edition of Wölfflin’s Renaissance legal digest (Frankfurt, 1589), in contemporary limp vellum, with extensive manuscript ownership inscriptions and devotional notes. A genuine working copy of a sixteenth-century Roman law manual.

Item #167

Price: $2,500.00

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