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1. Anglo-Saxon law; Annals of Iceland
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700; ca. 1650]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 508
- Image Count:
- 190
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (ca. 1700): 1) Treaty between Edward the Elder, King of England and Guthrun II, King of the Danes in East Anglia, 905-906. 2) Leges Edouardi regis, the Laws issued by King Edward the Elder (ca. 902-ca. 924) or Edward the Confessor (d. 1066). Part II (ca. 1650): 3) Annals of Iceland, 636-1394, with partial Latin translation in the margins. Here ascribed by another 17th-century hand to the Icelandic humanist Arngrimur Jonsson (1568-1648).
- Description:
- In Latin (Part I) and Icelandic (Part II)., Script: Part I (ff. 1-16): Written by one hand in Humanistic Cursive script. Part II (ff. 17-89): Gothica Cursiva for the Icelandic text, Humanistic Cursive script for the English text written in the margin., The acidity of the ink of the Icelandic text has damaged the paper., and Binding: Modern white parchment over cardboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., Connecticut, New Haven., and Iceland
- Subject (Name):
- Edward, King of England, -924.
- Subject (Topic):
- Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anglo-Saxon law; Annals of Iceland
2. Catalogue of Parliamentary acts
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1610?]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 26
- Container / Volume:
- File (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 182
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, incomplete, containing a catalogue of acts of Parliament from approximately 1488 to 1610 ("septimo Jacobi Reg."). Formerly part of a larger volume; the leaves are numbered 280-370
- Description:
- In English., Script: secretary script., and Binding: disbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Renaissance, Law, and Session laws
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Catalogue of Parliamentary acts
3. Commonplace book, 1586
- Creator:
- Ogle, Richard, Sir, ca. 1554-1627
- Call Number:
- Osborn a40
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur.", Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., and Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549., Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574., and Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?
- Subject (Topic):
- Law, Medicine, Popular, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1586
4. Copy of a Judicial Decision (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [after December 1237].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.96
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a copy of a judician decision concerning Jacobus the bishop of Senigallia and the monasteries of S. Iohannes peneclaria and S. Iacobus in burgo, both in Ancona
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by the notary Johannes, son of Julianus., and Decoration: The document begins with a flourished initial "I"; 1-line initials are in brown; the notary's sign is in the center of the lower margin; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Law and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Copy of a Judicial Decision (fragment).
5. De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
- Creator:
- Bracton, Henry de, -1268
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa53
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law
- Description:
- In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Title from incipit., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Script: Gothic Textura., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., and Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bracton, Henry de, -1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
- Subject (Topic):
- Law and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
6. Fragmentum hoc ad leges Alfredi pertinens....
- Creator:
- Elstob, William, 1673-1715
- Published / Created:
- 1711-1714.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 129
- Image Count:
- 134
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, probably in the hand of William Elstob, containing a transcription of the Anglo-Saxon legal text known as Judex and readings for the text of several Anglo-Saxon law codes
- Description:
- In Old English and Latin., Collation note in Latin dated September 4, 1714 bears the initials G.E. (Gulielmus--William--Elstob) and E.E. (Elizabeth Elstob)., and This manuscript was probably part of William Elstob's projected editon of Anglo-Saxon legal manuscripts.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756. and Elstob, William, 1673-1715.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Law, Anglo-Saxon, and Law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fragmentum hoc ad leges Alfredi pertinens....
7. Judicial Decision (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [3 August 1233].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.104
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a judicial decision emanating from the podesta of Trento, Riprandus Otonis Rici, by order of Bishop Aldricus of Trento concerning easement of a stable
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by Rolandinus., and Decoration: at the opening of the document there is a design in brown ink resembling a chalice; a cross stands above the entire document; the initial "E" of the notary's signature is a 2-line square-shaped capital in black ink decorated with dots; punctuated with the punctus and, at the end of the document, the punctus versus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Law and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Judicial Decision (fragment).
8. Law report (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1460-1480]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 138
- Container / Volume:
- File (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, apparently from a collection of law reports (perhaps a Year-book). Actions mentioned include cases of Dower and Quare impedit
- Description:
- In Law French (Anglo-Norman)., Layout: single columns of 61-62 lines each., and Script: cursive legal script with some anglicana features.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Law report (fragment).
9. Laws
- Creator:
- Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway, 1503-1559
- Published / Created:
- [between 1590 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 31
- Image Count:
- 245
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy; watermarks buried in the gutter) of Christian III and Frederick II of Denmark, Laws
- Description:
- In Low German., Script: Written by one scribe in cursive script., Headings in large gothic textura, with flourishes., and Binding: Between 1850 and 1900. Tan and brown mottled calf, gold-tooled; on the spine, "DESZ BRODMECHTIGESTEN [sic] HOCHGEBARNEN FoeRSTENVIMD," and the crowned monogram of comte Paul Riant. By the same binder who did MS 24.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Denmark., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway, 1503-1559. and Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway, 1534-1588.
- Subject (Topic):
- Law and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Laws
