(VOLUMINA Legum T. 1).

(VOLUMINA Legum T. 1).

Leges, Statuta, Constitutiones, Privilegia Regni Poloniae, Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae, Omniumq[ue] Provinciarum Annexarum, a Comitiis Visliciae Anno 1347 celebratis usque ad ultima Regni Comitia: (Volumen Primum. Ab Anno 1347. ad Annum 1547, Acta republicae Continen). varsaviae (Warsaw) 1732. in Typographia S.R.M. et Reipublicae Collegij Varsaviensis Scholarum Piarum. (33 x 20 cm), f. [24], pp. 589, [5],copperplate engraving on back of title page, vignettes, initials in woodcut, binding sl. period.
(Estr. T. 33.) The first volume includes laws from 1347 - 1547 issued during the reigns of Casimir the Great (Wislickie Statutes), Ludwik Andegawenski, Władysław Jagiełło, Władysław Warneńczyk, Kazimierz Jagiellończyk, Jan Olbracht, Aleksander Jagiellończyk, Zygmunt Stary. Volumina Legum: The first Polish collection of statute law, containing a record of all royal privileges and parliamentary constitutions from 1347 to 1793 (the proceedings of the Sejm of Grodno). This work was created on the initiative of Bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski of Kyiv. They began work on a chronological and complete edition of Polish laws. The first six volumes, containing laws enacted until 1736, were compiled and published by the Piarist Stanislaw Konarski. Volumes VII and VIII were published in 1782 by the Piarists. Volume IX was published in 1889 in Krakow, by the Academy of Learning. Traces of non-moisture, stains and woodworm, exlibris on the front pastedown; binding with scuffs. Good condition.