Author: Royzius Petrus Maurei, 1505 - 1571
Title: Decisiones Petri Royzii Maurei Alcagnicen: Regii Iurisc. De Rebus Sacro auditorio Lituanico, ex appellatione iudicatis. Hac novissima omnium editione A M. D. Leonardo A Lege Iurisconsul. Mantuano recognitae, & expurgatae. Cum indice verborum & rerum locupletissimo.
Title in English: Decisions of Petrus Roysius Maurus Alcagnicensis: the Royal Jurist. To the Holy Audience of Lithuania on the Decisions About the Complaint. Examined and Cleansed in this New Edition by M. D. Leonardo, the Jurist of Mantua by Law. With an Extensive Index of Words and Matters.
Published: Venetiis 1572. Apud Batholomeum Rubinum.
Format: 5 books in one. 4, k. [42], s. 229.
Binding: contemporary binding.
Reference: Aukcja Antykwaryczna 30. Anna Wójtowicz, Piotr Wójtowicz. – Kraków: Wójtowicz, 17 04 2010, No63, p. 32-33.
Petrus Roysius (1505–1571) was a poet, public figure in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, jurist, legal counsellor to the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund Augustus from 1549, and one of the writers of the Second Statute of Lithuania (1566). He wrote and published many works of poetry and law. Roysius’ Decisions is the first work of theoretical law in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in which the author discusses both legal questions and ethical and religious issues in Lithuanian and Polish society. A dedication letter to ruler Sigismund Augustus is added at the beginning. The work was first published in 1563 in Krakow, then republished in Frankfurt am Main in 1570, in Venice in 1572, and in Lion in 1588.
Reference: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 223.
Published: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 222-223.
Exhibitions: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books", September 3, 2018 – October 21, 2018.