Postcard portrays a young girl embodying Lady Justice, seated in a chair, holding a scale in her right hand and a sword in her left
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Themis, Déesse de la justice, Déesse de la justice, Postcard depicting a girl as Lady Justice seated in a chair, and Legally themed postcard depicting a girl as Lady Justice seated in a chair
Description:
Date from postmark and manuscript notes., Lillian Goldman Law Library's copy 1: addressed: Monsieur Ch Delbare ... Lille Nord; copy 2 addressed to [illegible] Lesper Cette Suzanne[?] and postmarked: Ceintrey, Meurthe et Moselle., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281770, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.14 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Lillian Goldman Law Library has 2 copies, each with manuscript notations.
Series of 10 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
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Postcards depicting a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice and Legally themed postcards a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
Description:
Date from postmark., Some cards include manuscript notations., Card number 6 mentions Berenger, a reference to René Bérenger, a French lawyer and politician who campaigned for public decency and virtue., Card number 8 mentions Magnaud, a reference to Paul Magnaud, a French judge., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281725, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.9 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Édition Phototypie A. Bergeret et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Ecole de Nancy (Group of artists), Bérenger, René, 1830-1915., and Magnaud, Paul, 1848-1926.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Mimes
Dog (Springer Spaniel) delivering a verdict in the courtroom
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Postcard depicting dog posed as judge and Legally themed postcard depicting dog posed as judge
Description:
"Rotograph series" B1626., The Rotograph Co., a major printer and publisher of postcards, was active in New York City, 1904-1911., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281871, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.4 tall, and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Publisher:
Rotograph Co.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Law, Judges, Conduct of court proceedings, and English springer spaniels
Manuscript, on parchment, in several hands, containing copies of legal documents, many concluding with notarial signs. Two internal title pages. The first reads: "Recognoissances de noble Pierre de Salles. 1324. Quartrefois B. Recognoi.ces de Noble Bernard de Salles. 1350. Quatrefois C. Recog.ces de Mons.r L'arceuesque de Narbonne. Aux Noble Bernard de Salles. Et Scindic du Chappitre St. Estienne de Narbonne / 1350. Quatrefois D." The second reads: "Recognoissances de noble Jehan de Vidal Conseig.r de Salles. 1514 Quatrefois N."
Description:
In Latin., Manuscript waste used in two internal bindings., Spine titles read: R--ON- / DE / SALLES. 1324. / 1350. / 1439. / 1514, and Binding: 18th century? full patterned calf. Red leather spine tags.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Narbonne (France)
Subject (Name):
Salles, Bernard de., Salles family., Salles, Pierre de., and Vidal, Jehan de.
Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of the second half of an alphabetical Repertorium iuris, from Legatio to Christianus (Xpianus). Numerous corrections and on some pages extensive additions in the margins
Description:
In Latin., Script: Apparently copied by 8 scribes, each writing one or two quires in small Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria, having features of the Northern as well as the Southern type., Numerous paragraph-marks; red flourished initials at the head of each lemma. The decorative braces which are consistently used to connect the text written in the open space at the end of paragraphs with its beginning on the line below are of various shapes, apparently proper to each scribe., The inner top and bottom corners of the leaves badly damaged by mice (?)., and Unbound.
Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ publichnai︠a︡ biblioteka imeni M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina
Published / Created:
1863.
Call Number:
Xn11 +863L
Image Count:
452
Description:
Added t.p.: Sistematicheskiĭ katalog knig na russkom i︠a︡zyki︠e︡ Imperatorskoĭ publichnoĭ biblioteki po chasti pravovi︠e︡di︠e︡nii︠a︡ i statisticheskikh nauk. Sostavlennyĭ doktorom prav V. Pfafom. and Includes indexes.
Publisher:
V tipografii N.Tiblena i komp.
Subject (Geographic):
Soviet Union
Subject (Topic):
Law, Political science, Statistics, Vital, and Statistics
Manuscript on paper (light-weight) of Laws of Sjaelland, Denmark
Description:
In Danish., Watermarks in gutter similar to Briquet Main 11417 and Lettre P 8636., Script: Written in a running script with some looped ascenders, by one scribe., Crude 2-line initials, in orange. Paragraph marks and slashes between sentences, also in orange., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Rebinding? Sewn on three vegetable fiber, double cords, the previous sewing caught up. No endbands. The cords are laced and pegged into oak boards. Between the cords the spine is lined with vellum strips which extend into the inside of the boards. Covered in reddish-brown calf, blind-tooled with a vine scroll St. Andrew's cross set in a panel border of the same on the lower board, concentric panels, two with vine scrolls on the upper. There is a brass catch on the upper board, the stub of a vellum strap attached to the lower one. The leather is wanting in the spine area.
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark., Connecticut, New Haven., and Sjælland (Denmark)
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering)., A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7., Layout: single column, 16-19 lines., Script: contemporary Anglicana hand., Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon., and Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings
Description:
In Law French and Latin., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Script: several secretary scripts., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
