LINDENBROG, Friedrich.

First edition of Lindenbrog s substantial juridical work. Lindenbrog (1573-1648) studied under Scaliger at Leiden. He travelled widely in England, France, and Italy, before returning to his native country to practice law. He was a prolific author and successful lawyer, and later also a canon of Hamburg Cathedral. The present work is a compendium of legal history focussing on the Holy Roman Empire and combines such sources as St. Ansegisus and Benedictus Levita. It covers diverse aspects of the law, including: the respective rights of men and women, marriage, inheritance, legitimate and bastard offspring, criminal law including homicide, laws affecting priests, bishops and the administration of the sacraments, Jews and conversion as well as more everyday provisions touching vicious dogs, animals, butchers and fishmongers, places of worship and court procedure. It incorporates the laws of the Visigoths and of Naples and several German principalities; and the edicts of Theodoric. An interesting compendium in a nice contemporary binding.

From the library of the Dutch poet and jurist Lucas van de Poll (1630-1713). He was appointed extraordinary law professor at the University of Utrecht in 1670 and was later granted the title of professor pandectarum . Van de Poll specialised in inheritance law and authored a well-documented work on the subject, De exheredatione et praeteritione Romana (Amsterdam, 1700).