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De fideicommissis praesertim universalibus, tractatus frequentissimus, M. Antonii Peregrini ... : ab eodem ultima hac est post germanicam editionem, summa diligentia recognitus & compluribus additamentis recenter adauctus & illustratus

Pellegrini, Marcantonio, 1530-1616 · 1668 · Norimbergae : Sumtibus Johannis Andreae Endteri, & Wolfgangi Junioris haeredum · 14 pictures

A 1668 Latin treatise on Roman law of fideicommissa by the jurist Marcantonio Pellegrini, printed in Nuremberg by the heirs of Johann Andreas Endter and Wolfgang Endter the younger for legal scholars. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials, an S and a C, set in dense scrolling foliage with a central fleur-de-lis or leaf motif, showing how a designer can frame a capital letter with interlaced vine ornament inside a square field.

Fideicommissum (Roman law)

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