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Association of the Bar collections are finished!

Another cataloging milestone to report... All of the collections that the Lillian Goldman Law Library acquired from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY) are now completely cataloged in our online catalog, MORRIS . The Roman-Canon Law Collection was completely cataloged in 2008....

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 11-20-2012
Statutes of the Italian Alps

The Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library is proud to be a partner in an exhibition for an upcoming conference in the Italian Alps. The conference, "'Naturally separated': History and Autonomy of the Ancient Alpine Communities," will take place September 29, 2012, in the...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 09-15-2012
Our Montebuono manuscript is published!

Our 15th-century manuscript of the statutes of Montebuono , Italy, is now available in a full-color facsimile edition, along with a full transcription and three scholarly studies. Lo Statuto di Montebuono in Sabina del 1437 (Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2011) is available for purchase from the publisher's...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 12-17-2011
Biblioteca del Senato

The Lillian Goldman Law Library prides itself on having what may be the best collection of early Italian statutes in the Western Hemisphere. However, our collection will never come close to matching the superb collection of statuti at the Biblioteca del Senato della Repubblica "Giovanni Spadolini"...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 12-22-2009
Homecoming for the Montebuono manuscript

On a recent trip to Rome I had the great professional and personal pleasure of reuniting an Italian town with an important piece of its history. Among the volumes in our outstanding collection of early Italian statutes is a 15th-century manuscript of the statutes of Montebuono, a village about 60 km...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 12-16-2009
Portrait gallery: "Dottori Modonesi"

My Flickr frenzy continues... Another new portrait gallery in the Rare Book Collection's section of the Yale Law Library Flickr site comes from Lodovico Vedriani's Dottori Modonesi di teologia, filosofia, legge canonica, e civile (Modena, 1665). The majority of the 36 portraits are of the leaders...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 09-04-2009
A gallery of illustrious jurists

One of the first portrait albums ever published featured Italy's outstanding jurists, Antoine Lafréry's Illustrium iureconsultorum imagenes (Rome, 1566?). The book consists of 25 portraits, attributed to Niccolò Nelli, that reportedly were based on a set of portraits in the collection...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 09-03-2009
Italian students visit the Paskus-Danziger Rare Book Room

Close to 30 students from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy toured the Paskus-Danziger Rare Book Room on March 4, 2008, during their visit to the Yale Law School. The students are jointly enrolled in the legal studies program at the University of Pisa . After viewing our exhibit, The...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-05-2009
Recent rare book acquisitions, Winter 2008-2009

Here are a few of the highlights from our acquisitions in the past three months. For our growing collection of illustrated law books: Quadruvium ecclesie (Paris, 1509) by Johann Hugonis de Sletstat (a.k.a. Johann Hug), considered the first text on German constitutional law; only one other copy in the...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-05-2009
Early Italian Statutes: Links

The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian City Statutes in the Yale Law Library One of the main reasons for organizing this exhibit is to encourage students and scholars to use the Yale Law Library's outstanding collection of early Italian statutes. All of the volumes in the collection are represented...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 11-01-2008

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