Alphabetically arranged digest based on the collection of Rota decisions begun in the 17th cent. by Prospero Farinacci, continued by others and published in 25 volumes in Rome (?) and in Venice in 1716. The decisions in that collection, known as "Recentiores," date from 1558 through 1683.
The Milan compilers' names are given in v. 5 (prelim. p. [6]): Camillus Gallia de Puteo, Andreas Tornagus, Benedictus de Allegris, Joannes Baptista Valtorta.
Title pages in red and black, with a coat of arms that features papal tiara, keys, and torches. Vol. 1 has also a half t.p.
Paduan censors' permission to print granted to A. Poletti (in v. 1) is dated 1745. Earlier edition was published in Milan by C.J. Gallo in 1730-1731.
Vol. 1: [20], 584 p.; v. 2: [16], 630. [2 blank] p.; v. 3: [12], 439 p.; v. 4: [12], 404 p.; v. 5: [12], 398, [2 blank] p.; v. 6: [12], 101 [i.e. 99] p. Two-column layout.
Title vignettes (in v. 1, 3, 5 with martial motives).
Each volume has in prelim. matter its own "Index titulorum."
Errata in v. 5, prelim. p. [6].
LC set has v. 6 bound with v. 5.