Series of ten numbered postcards with narrative captions satirizing contemporary legal practice
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Postcards depicting a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice and Legally themed postcards a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
Description:
Date from postmark., Some cards include manuscript notations., Card number 6 mentions Berenger, a reference to René Bérenger, a French lawyer and politician who campaigned for public decency and virtue., Card number 8 mentions Magnaud, a reference to Paul Magnaud, a French judge., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281725, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.9 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Édition Phototypie A. Bergeret et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Ecole de Nancy (Group of artists), Bérenger, René, 1830-1915., and Magnaud, Paul, 1848-1926.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Mimes
Dog (Springer Spaniel) delivering a verdict in the courtroom
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Postcard depicting dog posed as judge and Legally themed postcard depicting dog posed as judge
Description:
"Rotograph series" B1626., The Rotograph Co., a major printer and publisher of postcards, was active in New York City, 1904-1911., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281871, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.4 tall, and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Publisher:
Rotograph Co.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Law, Judges, Conduct of court proceedings, and English springer spaniels
Manuscript, on parchment, in several hands, containing copies of legal documents, many concluding with notarial signs. Two internal title pages. The first reads: "Recognoissances de noble Pierre de Salles. 1324. Quartrefois B. Recognoi.ces de Noble Bernard de Salles. 1350. Quatrefois C. Recog.ces de Mons.r L'arceuesque de Narbonne. Aux Noble Bernard de Salles. Et Scindic du Chappitre St. Estienne de Narbonne / 1350. Quatrefois D." The second reads: "Recognoissances de noble Jehan de Vidal Conseig.r de Salles. 1514 Quatrefois N."
Description:
In Latin., Manuscript waste used in two internal bindings., Spine titles read: R--ON- / DE / SALLES. 1324. / 1350. / 1439. / 1514, and Binding: 18th century? full patterned calf. Red leather spine tags.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Narbonne (France)
Subject (Name):
Salles, Bernard de., Salles family., Salles, Pierre de., and Vidal, Jehan de.
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of the second half of an alphabetical Repertorium iuris, from Legatio to Christianus (Xpianus). Numerous corrections and on some pages extensive additions in the margins
Description:
In Latin., Script: Apparently copied by 8 scribes, each writing one or two quires in small Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria, having features of the Northern as well as the Southern type., Numerous paragraph-marks; red flourished initials at the head of each lemma. The decorative braces which are consistently used to connect the text written in the open space at the end of paragraphs with its beginning on the line below are of various shapes, apparently proper to each scribe., The inner top and bottom corners of the leaves badly damaged by mice (?)., and Unbound.
Manuscript on paper (light-weight) of Laws of Sjaelland, Denmark
Description:
In Danish., Watermarks in gutter similar to Briquet Main 11417 and Lettre P 8636., Script: Written in a running script with some looped ascenders, by one scribe., Crude 2-line initials, in orange. Paragraph marks and slashes between sentences, also in orange., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Rebinding? Sewn on three vegetable fiber, double cords, the previous sewing caught up. No endbands. The cords are laced and pegged into oak boards. Between the cords the spine is lined with vellum strips which extend into the inside of the boards. Covered in reddish-brown calf, blind-tooled with a vine scroll St. Andrew's cross set in a panel border of the same on the lower board, concentric panels, two with vine scrolls on the upper. There is a brass catch on the upper board, the stub of a vellum strap attached to the lower one. The leather is wanting in the spine area.
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark., Connecticut, New Haven., and Sjælland (Denmark)
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering)., A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7., Layout: single column, 16-19 lines., Script: contemporary Anglicana hand., Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon., and Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings
Description:
In Law French and Latin., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Script: several secretary scripts., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Postcard depicting four dogs sitting in a row and Legally themed postcard depicting 4 dogs sitting in a row, as judges
Description:
The Court of Appeal: Printed title on postcard front., Rotary Photographic Plate Sunk Gem Series: printed text on the left margin of the verso of the postcard., In lower right corner of image, reverse type: Landor., In lower left corner of image, reverse type: P 528., Rotary Photographic Co. Ltd. was active in London between 1897 and 1916., Manuscript notes on verso: "Many thanks, wish I knew what it all meant. Have you named the new cow yet?" signed J. I., Addressed to Mr. Craig, [P--?] Palace, Donegal Rd., Belfast., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281865, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM Z Postcards v.1 no.3 tall., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Manuscript, on paper, in a single scribal hand, of this treatise on the administrative questions of communal ownership and inheritance raised by the Franciscan vow of poverty
Description:
Bartolo of Sassoferrato (1313-1357), also known as Bartolus de Saxoferrato, was a prominent Italian legal scholar who taught in severa northern Italian universities and wrote many influential treatises, including several pertaining to the administrative and judicial problems raised by the rule of poverty of the Franciscan order., In Latin., Layout: single column of 43 lines., Script: gothica cursiva., Binding: 19th-century marbled paper over pasteboards., and Guards from fragments of unidentified Hebrew manuscript on parchment.
Postcard depicting cat posed as judge, bewigged. Behind the cat is a doll, missing its wig
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Postcard depicting cat posed as judge, bewigged and Legally themed postcard depicting cat posed as judge
Description:
"STATICS. Your Honour. Statics London, Printed in England. PC 254"--Printed text on back of postcard., Statics (London) Limited was founded 1983., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1213241, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2020. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.5 tall., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Digitization in progress. Online content available soon.
