LANGLAEI (JANI) [From LANGLE (Jean)] – OTIUM SEMESTER: JANI LANGLAEI R

LANGLAEI (JANI) [From LANGLE (Jean)]

OTIUM SEMESTER: JANI LANGLAEI REGII IN SENATV BRITANNIAE Celticæ Consiliarii VC Otium Semester. Ad eundem Britanniæ Celtice Senatum. Rhedonis: sumptibus Petri Le Bret

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1577

folio, full contemporary vellum, smooth spine and plain cover, 4 lace clasps with modern ties, printing with wide margins, headbands and initial letters, modern Ex-Libris printed on the inside front cover, (first 4 and last 2 leaves restored, loss of the errata text on 11 lines, very rare light dampstaining in the margin), very fine copy, 11 leaves-752 pages-15 leaves.

Jean de Langle (1510-1590) played an important role in the Parliament of Brittany during the difficult period of the struggle between Catholics and Huguenots. He sided with the former against his brother-in-law, Charles de Montauban [of Brittany], who became one of the leaders of the royalist and Huguenot party. Jean de Langle spent half the year at Montluc prison, tending his lands and engaging in intellectual pursuits, including writing a substantial book, published in 1577 under the title Otium Semester, containing his memoirs and reflections on justice. "The Parliament of Brittany produced three writers contemporary with d'Argentré: Noël Dutail, Jean de Langle, and Guillaume de Lesrat. In 1577, Jean de Langle published a very respectable folio volume under the title Otium Semester, which can be translated as: My Holidays." The sheer amount of erudition in this enormous book, written in the most solemn Latin so prized by 16th-century scholars, is prodigious. Prose writers and poets of antiquity and the Renaissance are all included; de Langle had read everything printed in his time: his library must have rivaled that of d'Argentré, whose curious and instructive catalogue, handwritten in his own hand, is preserved in the Rennes Library. Jean de Langle had long been renowned as one of the most learned members of the Parliament of Brittany: his reports and deliberations were admired for his profound knowledge of ancient and modern works, and for the sagacity with which he discussed and cited them to formulate an opinion. People regretted that someone hadn't taken notes, and they implored de Langle himself to write on the law. This, in fact, is said to be the original impetus for his book. The secret registers of Parliament confirm, in fact, that de Langle was very often the rapporteur for the most delicate and difficult cases. The Otium Semester was published in 1577, printed in Rennes by Julien du Clos, at the expense of Pierre Le Bret, bookseller at the Porte-Saint-Michel. It is certainly one of the most remarkable examples of Breton typography in the 16th century. The privilege granted to Pierre Le Bret is dated June 3, 1576. Jean de Langle's dedication is dated Rennes, on the Kalends of April 1577. This dedication is followed by an epistle from Nicolas Alixant, dated Rennes, on the 7th of the Kalends of May 1574. [Note the epistle and verses of Guy de Lesrat; the two short poems by Councilor Jean Huby; and another poem by Jules Guersent.] from a poem by Guy Le Meneust, lawyer at the court and attorney to Queen Catherine de Medici, the same man who succeeded Bertrand d'Argentré as seneschal of Rennes; verses by Guillaume Brenezay and Jan Ygier. These short poems are followed by a long epistle addressed to the Parliament of Brittany, Jean Morin, First President of the Court of Accounts, praising Jean de Langle with great erudition in Greek and Latin. To complete the ten-part series, one must add the epistle by Jean Baudoin, dated 1573, at the beginning of the 13th book of the Otium. (Extracts from an article by Mr. Ropartz published in the Bulletin archéologique de l'Association bretonne in 1877). BNF, ref. FRBNF30735134; Caen University Library, shelfmark 7739; not held by any other commonly consulted libraries. Catalogue of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies (Paris, F. Didot, 1833)

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Mots-clés : Customs, Ancient Law - History of Law

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