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Medieval manuscripts in the vernacular

My colleague at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library , Raymond Clemens, recently asked me for a list of the Law Library's medieval manuscripts in vernacular languages. The list is in three parts: (1) complete manuscripts, (2) facsimiles, and (3) binding fragments. You can view images from...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 01-26-2013
Exhibit talk: "Monuments of Imperial Russian Law"

"Monuments of Imperial Russian Law," now on display in the Yale Law Library, is perhaps the first rare book exhibit in the U.S. to focus on the history of Russian law. The exhibit's lead curator, Professor William E. Butler of Penn State, will give a talk on the exhibit on May 9, in Room...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-07-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: The Constitution of 1906

Szeftel, Marc. The Russian Constitution of April 23, 1906: Political Institutions of the Duma Monarchy . Brussels: Librairie Encyclopédique, 1976. Yale University Library The Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 weakened the monarchy sufficiently for demands to introduce a "constitution"...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-13-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: 19th-Century Law Reform

Wortman, Richard S. The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). Lillian Goldman Law Library The period 1864 to 1917 is widely known as "The Golden Age" of Russian law and the Russian legal profession. The reforms of the Russian judiciary and...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-13-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Emancipation of the Serfs

Tomsinov, V. A. Kvestianskaia reforma 1861 goda v Rossii [ Peasant Reform of 1861 in Russia ]. Moscow: Zertsalo, 2012. Private Collection Sometimes reforms are born in the bowels of revolution, but like as not also in the measured reflections of a leadership committed to change. The emancipation of Russia’s...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-13-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: M.M. Speranskii

Speranskii, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1772-1839). Rukovodstvo k poznaniiu zakonov [ Manual for Knowledge of Laws ]. St. Petersburg, 1845. Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library M.M. Speranskii is the individual most closely associated with Russian achievements in the systematization of laws. He...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-13-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Codification

Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii [ Complete Collected Laws of the Russian Empire ]. 1st series. 48 vols. St. Petersburg, 1830. Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library Svod zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii [ Digest of Laws of the Russian Empire ]. 16 vols. St. Petersburg, 1904-1905. Rare...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-13-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Bentham's Russian Project

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832). Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction: Including Correspondence with The Russian Emperor, and Divers Constituted Authorities in the American United States . London: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1817. Yale University Library Bentham had genuine expectations...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-13-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Bentham's Influence

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832). Izbrannyie sochinieniia Ieremii Bentama. Tom Pervyi. [ Selected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Volume One. Introduction to the Bases of Morality and Legislation. Basic Principles of a Civil Code. Basic Principles of a Criminal Code ], transl. A.N. Pypin & A.N. Nevedomskii....

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-12-2012
Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Blackstone in Russian

Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780). Istolkovaniia angliiskikh zahonov [ Commentary on English Laws of Mr. Blackstone ]. Moscow, 1780-82. 3 vols. Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library Catherine II became aware of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) through the French...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-12-2012

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