Description

This edition of the glossed Institutiones (Institutes) of the Emperor Justinian was printed in the Mainz workshop of Peter Schöffer (circa 1425‒circa 1502), previously assistant of Johann Gutenberg, in 1468. The copy shown here was printed on parchment and lavishly illustrated with a miniature depicting a bust of the emperor with the imperial insignia of the crown, the globus cruciger (orb and cross), the scepter and the imperial coat of arms, as well as with tempera initials with foliate extensions. At the bottom of folio 1 recto, in the ...