FIOCCHI, Andrea Domenico, Pseudonym: Lucius Fenestella (+1452)].

De magistratibus sacerdotiisque; Romanoru[m] libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotijs, et praeterea de diversis legibus Ro[manorum]. Item Valerii Probi gram. de literis antiq. opusculum.

      [Köln, Eucharius Cervicornus, um 1530]. - Kl.-8vo (160 x 100 mm). Titel innerhalb Renaissance-Holzschnitt-Bordüre mit Dionisius rechts und Kleopatra unten und 6 schwarzgrundigen, teilweise grossen Holzschnitt-Initialen. [88] Bl. Halbpergamentband um 1900, mit hs. Rückentitel. Kölner Druck des Rechtsklassikers De sacerdotiis et magistratibus Romanorum, erstmals um 1474 mit dem Titel: De Romanis potestatibus, sacerdotiis et magistratibus gedruckt. "The treatise enjoyed almost immediatly a wide circulation . and at the close of the 15th century there were already seven printed texts available" (M. Laureys). - Vor allem in der ersten Hälfte von zeitgenössischer Humanistenhand dicht annotiertes Exemplar; auf Schlussblatt mehrzeilige Ovid-Zitate von anderer Hand sowie Definitionen der Kirchenämter eines Bischofs oder Metropoliten. VD 16, F-1644; Panzer IX, 176, 150; Adams F-599; DBI XVIIIL, 80f.; zu Cervicornus vgl. W. Schmitz, Die Überlieferung deutscher Texte im Kölner Buchdruck (1990), S. 369f.; M. Laureys, At the threshold of humanist jurisprudence: A. Fiocchi's De potestatibus Romanis, in: Bulletin de l'Institut Historique de Rome LXV (1995), S. 25f. Excessively annoted copy by a contemporary humanist hand of this rare Cologne edition of Floccus' classic legal work De magistratibus sacerdotiisque Romanorum libellus. Floccus or Fiocchi (died 1452) was a distinguished lawyer and secretary to the papal house in Florence. He was a student of Manuel Chrysoloras (ca.1355-1415), the famous classicist who was instrumental in stimulating Greek scholarship through his Erotemata, the first Greek grammar used in the West. The authorship of this work, first published at Venice in 1475, was attributed to the Roman historian Fenestella, although this was contested at an early date by Giglio Gregorio Giraldi and Flavio Biondo. - On the last leaf verso several Ovid verses by another hand. la