Swedish-Gothic Legal Lexicon compiled by Johan Loccenius, 1665.

Johan Loccenius, Lexicon Iuris Sveo-Gothici collectore Johanne Loccenio. Accedit Index Explicationis Dictionum Feudalium. Editio secunda Emendatior & Auctior, Additio etiam novo Indice. Continente simul veterum Juris Sveo-Gothici verborum interpretationem Sueticam.

Swedish-Gothic Legal Lexicon compiled by Johan Loccenius. Additionally an Index Explaining the Feudal Terminology. Second Improved & Increased Edition, Adding also new Indexes. As well containing old legal Swedish-Gothic terminology interpreted in Swedish.

(Upsaliæ [Uppsala]: [ … ] Excudit [Printed by] Henricus Curio, S.R.M. [Sacrae Regis Majestatis = ] & Acad. Vpsaliensis Bibliop. [Bookseller of Uppsala Academy = Uppsala University], 1665). Later brown half leather with beige-gray-brown-green marbled paper boards, newer endpapers, close trimmed but no loss of text.

Second edition of three, the first published in 1651 and the last in 1674. Only this edition was printed in Uppsala. In 1675, the printer Henrik Curio (1630–91), after being criticized for neglecting his duties, was removed as the official Printer and Bookseller of Uppsala University, which caused an intense conflict and led to legal proceedings lasting more than ten years. Johan Loccenius was constantly improving this influential legal lexicon (for more on the author, see the other title by Loccenius in this exhibit).

Provenance notes. There is a still-unidentified old signature, “Carl St—rd,” in sepia ink on the title-page. – This volume was a gift to the UMN Law Library from Professor Stig Strömholm (born 1931), a towering scholar and figure in Swedish academia, which contains the joint bookplate of he and his wife Gunilla Strömholm (1935–2013). Stig Strömholm was a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, 1969–1997; Dean of the Faculty 1973–79; Rector Magnificus (Vice-chancellor) of the University, 1989–1997; and Pro-rector (deputy Vice-chancellor), 1978–1989. Among innumerable other positions, he was a visiting professor at the UMN Law School in the fall semester of 1982. In the spring of 1983, the former Dean of UMN Law School, Carl Auerbach, also travelled to Uppsala to teach. This marked the grand beginning of the still – after almost 40 years – ongoing exchange program between the Law Faculty of Uppsala University and the UMN Law School, which has included both faculty and students.