Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed
Description:
In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur.", Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., and Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549., Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574., and Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?
Venice (Republic : To 1797), enacting jurisdiction.
Published / Created:
1569.
Call Number:
MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289
Image Count:
218
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. , Numbering: [1] blank leaf, [1], [1]-160, [1] pages, [16] blank leaves, [24] pages. , Manuscript on vellum. , Binding: volume bound in white vellum over boards. , Contains an index at the end., Illuminated page begins on [1], 3rd group of paging, opposite of page 2. , Text on the first page within decorated border and initials in gold and colors, with the emblems of Venice and Soranzos' coat of arms, unfinished. Capitals and titles in text in red, all edges in gilt., Illuminated first page begins: "MDLXIX. Ivro ego Ioanes Svperantivs Eqves Consiliarivs Venetiarum Sexterij Sancti Pauli ad avangelia sancta Dei, quod donec ero Consiliarius,...", This decorated manuscript, known as a Giuramento, contains the oath of the government-appointed counselor of the sestiere (district) of San Polo in Venice. In 1569, the Venetian patrician Giovanni Soranzo held this position, and he commissioned this illuminated legal document, the first page of which includes his name in large golden letters; his patron saint, John the Baptist, in the upper left corner; and his coat of arms in the lower margin. A Giuramento was issued to all six counselors of Venice and included a description of the doge's responsibilities. Counselors were members of the Collegio, the government’s highest executive committee. Two years before his appointment as counselor, Soranzo had served as the Venetian governor of Bergamo, in northern Italy., Volume inscribed by Giovanni Soranzo on the page (page [1], 2nd group of paging) preceding the illuminated page about his reelection as counselor in April of 1574. It appears that this manuscript was his personal copy, which bears his name in the illuminated page with the date 1569. , Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b451624, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2019. MssJ V55 no.2 Rare26 11-0289, Description based on print version record. , and Written in humanistic cursive in Latin and Italian.
Publisher:
producer not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Venice, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Loyalty oaths, Law, City councils, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Italian
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a copy of a judician decision concerning Jacobus the bishop of Senigallia and the monasteries of S. Iohannes peneclaria and S. Iacobus in burgo, both in Ancona
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by the notary Johannes, son of Julianus., and Decoration: The document begins with a flourished initial "I"; 1-line initials are in brown; the notary's sign is in the center of the lower margin; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Series of three postcards, with narrative captions. Children as advocate and plaintiff, the plaintiff, the victim, of a broken engagement
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting children as legal counsel and plaintiff and Legally themed postcards depicting children as legal counsel and plaintiff
Description:
In lower left corner: AL 5006, AL 5007, AL 5009., On verso: "Printed in Germany. AL series.", Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281632, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2020. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.6 tall, Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Aristophot was formed in Leipzig, Germany, around 1900 and subsequently opened a branch in London.
Publisher:
Aristophot Co. Ltd and Aristophot Co. Ltd.?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Courtship
Manuscript daybook in Barzillai Slosson's handwriting documents payments made to him or by him to town residents for both his legal work and purchases he made. It identifies clients, services rendered, goods purchased, and charges for those services and purchases in Kent, Connecticut, covering the period from July 7, 1809, to December 9, 1812. Additionally, Slosson recorded in the account book that people used his law books in his office to study law
Alternative Title:
Barzillai Slosson daybook, 1809 July 7-1812 December 6
Description:
Manuscript written in black ink in 19th-century handwriting., Dates based on internally recorded dates., Title devised by cataloger., On front pastedown: "Daniel J. Baswell began to read law in my office April 17, 1811." Another note reads: "Mr. Sylvester Johnson began to use law the second time in my office June 18, 1811.", Several pages are badly mutilated, and many are completely destroyed at the beginning and end of the book., Yale Law Library's label inside book: "Presented to the Yale Law Library by Mr. Otto J. Leonhard of Kent, 1936.", Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b258893~S1, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, MssA Sl55 no.4 flat, Description based on print version record., Hicks classification: MssA Sl55 no.4 flat., and Barzillai Slosson (1769-1813), a Yale College graduate of 1791, was an attorney from Kent, Connecticut, who also served as a clerk for the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Publisher:
Barzillai Slosson
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Kent, Kent., Kent (Conn.), and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Lawyers, Accounting, Practice of law, Account books, Law offices, Law, Study and teaching, Business records, History, Fees, and Manuscripts, American
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law
Description:
In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Title from incipit., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Script: Gothic Textura., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., and Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Manuscript, on paper, probably in the hand of William Elstob, containing a transcription of the Anglo-Saxon legal text known as Judex and readings for the text of several Anglo-Saxon law codes
Description:
In Old English and Latin., Collation note in Latin dated September 4, 1714 bears the initials G.E. (Gulielmus--William--Elstob) and E.E. (Elizabeth Elstob)., and This manuscript was probably part of William Elstob's projected editon of Anglo-Saxon legal manuscripts.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756. and Elstob, William, 1673-1715.
