[Bavaria; Legal.]

Gerichtsordnung im Fürstenthumb Obern und Nidern Bayern Anno 1520 aufgericht. [Munich: Andreas Schobser, 1535] 

Folio (303 x 208 mm), woodcut title printed in red with large woodcut illustration of the brother Dukes of Bavaria, Wilhelm and Ludwig, by Casper Clofigl, woodcut initials, a few early marginal annotations, late nineteenth- or early-twentieth-century half vellum with manuscript title, lacking 2 blanks, some light spotting and browning, light dampstaining to inner margin of some leaves, small dampstain to centre of title-page and following 2 leaves, spine becoming detached

Reprint of the 1520 first edition, printed in 1535 by Andre꧑as Schobser, the codification of the Bavarian Landsrecht of 1516. This edition uses the titular woodcut of the first edition from 1520, depicting the brother Dukes of Bavaria at a 🌺table surrounded by an audience drawn from all levels of society. It is the work of Caspar Clofigl, a Munich artist who served as court-painter to Duke William IV from about 1516 to 1529 (Hollstein V p.195, Clofigl 4).

PROVENANCE:

Germꦑan bookseller’s note dated June 1880 to upper pastedown

LITERATURE:

VD16 B 990