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4th-graders from North Haven tour our exhibits

On April 22 the Rare Book Collection hosted 84 4th-grade students from Ridge Road Elementary School in North Haven, CT. They toured our current exhibit, "Reused, Rebound, Recovered: Medieval Manuscript Fragments in Law Book Bindings." They posed plenty of perceptive questions. It was a delight...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 04-22-2010
Medievalists are set loose in the Rare Book Room

Over 40 members of the Medieval Academy of America attended our open house on March 19, as part of the Academy's 2010 Annual Meeting at Yale. The occasion was our current exhibit, "Reused, Rebound, Recovered: Medieval Manuscript Fragments in Law Book Bindings." After a brief presentation...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-31-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings: Acknowledgments

Thanks to the following individuals for their assistance in the preparation of this exhibit: Moshe Bar Asher Academy of the Hebrew Language Binyamin Elizur Academy of the Hebrew Language Ezra Chwat National Library of Israel Margot Fassler Yale University Shana Jackson Lillian Goldman Law Library Ivan...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings, no. 20

Fragment: Unknown Date: c.1475-1525 Found in: Caccialupi, Giovanni Battista. De pesionibus tractatus uere aureus . Rome: F. Minizio Calvo, 1531 . The vast majority of medieval manuscript fragments found in the Law Library's bindings are in Latin, but not all of them. In addition to the two Hebrew...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings, no. 19

Fragment: Maimonides's Mishneh Torah / Vidal of Tolosa's Maggid Mishneh Date: c. 1300-1500 Found in: Milan (Duchy). Constitutiones dominii mediolanensis . Novara: Francesco Sesalli, 1567 . Between 1170 and 1180 the famous rabbi, physician, and philosopher Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) compiled a...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings, no. 18

Fragment: Sextus liber decretalium (Bologna or Padua) Date: c. 1320-1330? Found in: Bologna (Italy). Statutorum inclytae civitatis ... Bononiae , vol. 2. Bologna: Giovanni Rossi, 1569 . Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) held a doctorate in canon and civil law and, like Gregory IX seventy years earlier,...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings, no. 17

Fragment: Decretales Gregorii IX , with gloss (Bologna or Avignon) Date: c. 1240-50 Found in: Massa, Antonio. De usuris . Rome: Valerio Dorico, 1557 . The landscape of medieval jurisprudence changed radically in the 12th century, when the monk Gratian's revolutionary collection of canons and decrees...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings, no. 16

Fragment: Codex Iustiniani (Italy, probably Bologna) Date: c. 1275-1325 Found in: Savoy (Duchy). Statuta Sabaudie . [Turin: Bernardus de Sylva, 1530.] It was probably not mere coincidence that a leaf of the Corpus iuris civilis was used to cover this volume of legal statutes from the Duchy of Savoy....

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings, no. 15

Fragment: Cicero's "Dream of Scipio" (Italy) Date: c. 1275-1325 Found in: Jame, Pierre. Aurea et famosissima practica . [Lyons: A. Dury, 1527.] The parchment used to cover this volume features a portion of Cicero's "Dream of Scipio" (" Somnium Scipionis "), the sixth...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010
Medieval Manuscripts in Law Book Bindings, no. 14

Fragment: Aquinas's Commentary on the Metaphysics Date: c. 1375-1475 Found in: Barbier, Jean. Viatorium utriusque iuris . [Strassburg: Johann Pruss, 1493.] The philosopher and theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1226-1274) lived at a time of great intellectual development in European society. The...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-16-2010

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