HOTMAN (François)
    IN QUATUOR INSTITUTIONUM IURIS CIVILIS LIBROS COMMENTARII
Édition :
    Lugduni (Lyon)
Date :
    1567
    folio, bound in 17th century mottled brown calf, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, brown morocco leather binding, marbled edges, fine tailpieces and illuminated initials, (slight scratches on the boards and edges, lower joint of the front board slightly split, upper headcap damaged, some dampstaining and foxing, title page missing), brief handwritten introduction on the author on the reverse of the front board, 575 p. -8 f.
    Hotman was one of the most well-known monarchomachs, and his doctrine was notably set forth in his Franco-Gallia of 1573. The text presented here is extremely rare (not held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, not in the van Zyl collection, but a copy exists at the Berkeley Law Library (KBD41 H678)). The work contains a pagination error, the last numbered page being P. 575 and the preceding one P. 570, but there is no missing text. It is one of the major texts of 16th-century Roman law doctrine. Gravina, in his Spirit of the Roman Laws, emphasizes that "Hotman, extremely versed in both sacred and secular antiquity, perverted, through his apostasy, the good qualities he had received from nature. He began to point out the faults of the jurists of the school of Accursius and Bartholomew, and to censure the order of the books of law bearing the seal..." of antiquity and to imagine it in his own way. This drew sharp criticism from Cujas, his only worthy rival; Hotman attacked him in turn, sometimes secretly, sometimes openly, triggering less a full-blown argument between these two illustrious men than an anger that soon subsided.

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