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Papal resignations: the case of Celestine V

The news of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation brings to mind an image from our rare book collection that illustrates a previous papal resignation, that of Pope Celestine V. Celestine appears together with his successor, Boniface VIII, in an image at the opening of a 1514 edition of the Liber Sextus...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-11-2013
Happy Holidays!

Best wishes for a HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON and a Prosperous 2013! MIKE WIDENER, Rare Book Librarian Tree of consanguinity from a 15th-century Austrian manuscript of Giovanni d'Andrea's Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis .

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 12-20-2012
New book with our images

A new book by José Cárdenas Bunsen, Escritura y Derecho Canónico en la obra de fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2011), includes several illustrations taken from the Rare Book Collection, including those adorning the cover. The images come from...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 07-19-2011
New Flickr images: Tractatus iuris

There are two new sets of images in the Rare Book Collection's Flickr galleries : Tractatus iuris (1549) and Tractatus universi iuris (1584-86) . Apart from the title pages, you won't see any pretty pictures in these image sets. What you will see are tables of contents and indexes of authors...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 10-28-2010
Provenance puzzle #2 -- solved!

I have two people to thank for independently solving my Provenance Puzzle #2 : my friend the San Antonio tax attorney and bibliophile Farley Katz, and Christopher Frey of Antiquariat Inlibris Gilhofer in Vienna. The armorial stamp, shown at left, is of the Austrian nobleman Joseph Anton von der Halden...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-28-2010
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
A visit from Yale's Directed Studies students

I was pleased to welcome about 30 freshmen from Yale's Directed Studies program to the Paskus-Danziger Rare Book Room on November 4. They were accompanied by three of the Directed Studies faculty: Edwin Duval (French), Paul Freedman (History), and Justin Zaremby (Yale College and Law '10). Directed...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 11-05-2009
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

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