Commentarii de re diplomatica imperatorum ac regum Germanorum Tom I: Inde a Caroli M. temporibus adornati; Tom II: Inde a Ludovici Germanici temporibus adornati

Heumann, Johann, 1711-1760

Edité par Sumtibus Iohannis Georgii Lochneri 1745-53, Norimbergae Nuremberg, 1745

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Engraved Plates (folding); [12], 506, [46 p]; XXXVIII, 432, [28] pages; Two volumes, contemporary full calf, five raised bands on the spine, elaborate gilt tooled decoration occupies nearly the entirety of the spine panels -- with the exception of the second and third panels, which have contrasting leather title slips lettered in gilt. Paste-downs (only) are marbled paper, all edges decoratively stained red. Minor wear, rubbing and a couple of surface scrapes to the boards and small area of loss to the leather at the foot of the front board to the second volumme (about the size of a minor coin) -- even so, this set remains sound, handsome, clean and crisp internally. Large 8vo. Engraved title page vignetters, Woodcuts: Devices, initials; side notes.Vol. 1: [12], 506, [46] pp., 8 folded leaves of engraved plates; v. 2: XXXVIII, 432, [28] pp. 5 plates. The two volumes are organized under the following subtitles: [Tom I.] 'Inde a Caroli M. temporibus adornati' -- [Tom II. 'Inde a Ludovici Germanici temporibus adornati.' It is reflective of the differing eras of diplomacy under Emperor Charlemagne, and under his son Louis the Pious that the thick volume devoted to a fourteen year period of Charlemagne required over 500 pages, whereas the period of Louis the Pious, decades longer, required only 432 pages. In fact, there were fewer treaties under Louis [Germanicus]. As it happened, fewer documents of any sort were generated by the younger ruler. Few documents or treaties, if any, escaped the notice and studious eye of Johann Heumann -- who earned his reputation as one of the greatest legal scholars of the eighteenth ceutury, mostly as the compiler of this substantial and important compendium of the diplomatic documents and treaties of the Holy Roman Empire. Professor Johann Heumann [1711-1760] had been made a full professor at Altdorf (near Nuremburg) in 1744. In grateful acknowledgement of his work in preserving the diplomatic history of the foundation years of his Empire, Holy Roman Emperor Franz I elevated Heumann to the Imperial Nobility in 1759, the final year of the Professor's life -- under the title "von Teutschenbrunn." Heumann was not only an expert on the legal and diplomatic history of the Holy Roman Empire, but a connoisseur and preserver of its actual historic documents as well. A significant part of the interest and value of this set is represented by the handsome and precise folding engravings -- (twelve plates, five of which are folding) -- depicting the signatures and seals on the many treaties and laws which the author carefully described or transcribed. Professor Heumann collected a massive reference library; unusually for his time, there is a surviving catalogue of Heumann's collection -- ['Bibliotheca Heumanniana, sive supellex librorum, ad omnia scientiarum genera potissimum ad germaniae ius, privatum, politicum, at que publicum pertinentium quos vir quondam Illustris Dominus Ioannes Heumannus de Teutschenbrunn. Cum Praefatione Ioh. Bernh. Hofferi.' Altdorf: Schupfel, (1762).] This complete set of the two volumes, published eight years apart, has the signature of Dr. Heinrich Buhl[1848-1907] in eah volume. Buhl was a noted legal scholar of the nineteenth century. Professor Buhl was made a professor at the Faculty of Law at Heidelberg University in 1875, where some of his previous studies had taken place. He stayed at the prestigious University for the rest of his life, during which he was elected dean of the law faculty several times and served as a University Rector in 1902-3. His name is a perpectual presence at Heidelberg; he bequeathed the principal residence on the Main Street of Heidelberg's old town to the University -- where it is known as "Haus Buhl" -- near the eastern entrace to the old city. see OCLC Number 2899234.

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• Titre: Commentarii de re diplomatica imperatorum ac regum Germanorum Tom I: Inde a Caroli M. temporibus adornati; Tom II: Inde a Ludovici Germanici temporibus adornati
• Éditeur: Sumtibus Iohannis Georgii Lochneri 1745-53, Norimbergae Nuremberg
• Date de parution: 1745
• Reliure: Leather Binding
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good+
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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  • European History
  • 18th Century