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Jacobi Cuiacii ic. praestantissimi Opera omnia in decem tomos distributa : quibus continentur tam priora, sive quæ ipse superstes edi curauit; quam posteriora, sive quae post obitum eius edita sunt, vel nunc primum prodeunt

Cujas, Jacques, 1522-1590, Fabrot, Charles Annibal, 1580-1659, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL · 1658 · Lutetiæ Parisiorum [Paris] : Impensis Societatis Typrographicæ Librorum Officij Ecclesiatici ... · 31 pictures

A 1658 Paris edition in ten volumes of the collected works of the jurist Jacques Cujas, edited by Charles Annibal Fabrot and held in the John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library, aimed at scholars of Roman law. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, each letter framed by leafy vines, stems and flowers in dense black-and-white line work, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and foliate borders.

Corpus juris civilis · Roman law

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