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  • Provenance puzzle #1 -- solved!

    A hearty thanks to Stephen Ferguson, Curator of Rare Books at the Princeton University Library , for providing the answer to my Provenance puzzle #1 . The stamp is a portrait of Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526-1586). Stephen used Google Books to find a reference to the stamp in Konrad Haebler's...
    Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 04-26-2008

  • Provenance puzzle #2

    This armorial stamp graces the front and back covers of several tall folios from the Roman-Canon Law Collection of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. I have no idea what library this stamp is from, but I have a couple of clues. The binding style (stamped pigskin over boards, with rounded...
    Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 04-09-2008

  • Provenance puzzle #1

    This rubbing is from the front cover of one of the volumes from the Roman-Canon Law Collection of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. I would be grateful if someone could help me identify this portrait and/or the coat of arms on the back cover (see below), to learn who was the book's...
    Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 04-08-2008
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