06420

Title

Subject

Description

The layout of legal texts had been established in the fourteenth-century where the main text was written in columns of large script with commentary surrounding it in smaller script. Fust and Schoeffer were the first to establish it as the standard format in printed books.

Creator

Justinian I, Emperor, 483–565 CE and Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425–approximately 1502, printer.

Source

06420. JUSTINIAN I, Emperor (483–565 CE). Novellae constitutiones and Codicis libri X-XII, with the Glossa ordinaria by Accursius Florentinus (1184-1263); with: Obertus de Horto (fl. 12th century). Libri feudorum, with gloss by Jacobus Columbi (fl. 13th century). Printed on vellum. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 21 August 1477.

Relation

Great Law

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Latin

Type

Imperial Folio vellum

Collection

Peter Schoeffer: Printer of Mainz

Citation

Justinian I, Emperor, 483–565 CE and Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425–approximately 1502, printer., “06420,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed May 23, 2025, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1259.