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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Antonio Venier for administration of Istria] Ms. In Latin through mid-leaf 95a; the rest in the Venetian dialect of Italian. Title supplied by cataloger; lost 1st leaf may have carried one. Judging from similar Venetian documents, the lost first leaf is likely to have included the name of the doge of the period as the issuing authority; in this case, Alvise Mocenigo I. In central medallion on upper cover of…- Contributor: Venice (Republic : To 1797). Doge ( : Mocenigo) - Mocenigo, Alvise I - Venier, Giovanni Antonio
- Date: 1574
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Book/Printed Material[Ducale containing instructions to Giovanni Suriano for administration of Veglia] Ms. Title taken from clipping from sale catalog attached to pastedown of upper cover. Original title missing; the first line on leaf 1a, "Statuta et ordines in quibus eris dubius," could be mistaken for title but more likely it was the last line of a lost chapter; the first preserved chapter begins "Praeterea ..." (foliation, found only on leaves 1-4, is in modern pencil).…- Contributor: Venice (Republic : To 1797). Doge ( : Mocenigo) - Mocenigo, Alvise I - Suriano, Giovanni
- Date: 1571
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialA Collection of the offices of England with ther fees in the Queens guifte
Offices of England with ther fees in the Queenes guifte | Generall collection of all the offices of England with ther ffees in the Queenes guifte | Offices of England with ther ffees in the Queenes guifte. ms | Offices of England with ther fees in the Queenes quiste Manuscript. Caption, p. [3]: A generall collection of all the offices of England with ther ffees in the Queenes guifte, viz. ... The titles on p. [1] and [3] have the word "guifte" written as (or so that it may be read as) "quiste." The work lists in tabulated form the compensation associated with each of the offices and established positions in the court…- Contributor: Rare Manuscript Collection (Law Library of Congress) - Pasley, Charles William - England and Wales
- Date: 1558
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Book/Printed MaterialI[n]cipiu[n]t Flores s[ive] Decreto[rum] [com]pilat[i]o[n]es : elega[n]tiora uidelic[et] dicta s[ecundum] ordine[m] toti[us] libri Ms. An otherwise unreported anonymous epitome of Gratian's Decretum, with a set of mnemonic verses for each "causa" of its second part; the verses are known from elsewhere as Versus de Decretis cum sentenciis eorumdem, by Henry of Avranches. Cf. Rigg, A.G. A history of Anglo-Latin literature 1066-1422. Text proper (after the incipit) begins: Humanu[m] gen[us] duob[us] modis regit[ur]. Ius nat[ur]ale e[st] ... Date…- Contributor: Gratian - Henry
- Date: 1260
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Book/Printed MaterialSum[m]a Brocardi
Also known as: Summa de casibus conscientiae | Also known as: Summa casuum | Also known as: Summa beati fratris Ordinis Praedicatorum | Initium: Simonia dicitur heresis Ms. Title in contemporary hand in head margin of leaf 1a. The work, based on the Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio of Raymond of Peñafort, was composed in the last quarter of the 13th cent.; most copies do not name its author. Text begins: [S]ymonia d[icitu]r ha[ere]sis. No[n] q[uod] ip[s]e actus sit h[e]r[e]ticus s[ed] cred[er]e licent[er] posse emi sp[irit]ualia ... Purchased by LC from…- Contributor: Raymond - Burchardus Anerbe
- Date: 1300
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Book/Printed Material[Readings on early statutes of England] Ms. In Law French. "Readings on Magna Carta (wants beginning), Merton, Marlborough, Westminster II (cc. 1-11), part of Magna Carta again, and a few fragments. The reading on Marlborough (ff. 67-145) is 'secundum Stathum', which must be Nicholas Statham (d. 1472), Lincoln's Inn, c. 1466 or Lent 1472"--Baker. Baker, J. H. English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., I, 20 (MS. 139 (formerly MS. 1.3)…- Date: 1400
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Book/Printed MaterialLes Institutes au seint empereeur Iustinien
Beginning of extant text: Pour ce que len puit tot trouer | Title on container: Institutes de l'empereur Justinien | Institutes au seint empereur Iustinien "Nicolaus de Cathalano [ = of Châlons-sur Marne?] scripxit librum istu[m]" (f. l of last group/212r). An anonymous translation into (Old) French of the Institutiones, made in the 13th century; cf. the edition made (from other mss.) by F. Olivier-Martin: Les Institutes de Justinien en franc̨ais, traduction anonyme du XIIIe siècle. Paris : Recueil Sirey, 1935. Beginning of the Institutions (the initial and ca.…- Contributor: Nicolaus
- Date: 1280
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Book/Printed MaterialDe substitutionibus ; Ad rub. et legem p[rim]am De legat. p[rim]o; De jure accrescendi Ms. Caption titles. First leaf, perhaps with t.p., missing. The first of the three works (thought to be by the same unidentified, probably Italian author) begins on p. [3]. Initia of the three works: Tanta est materie substitutionum utilitas ut statim ac ad eam explicandam animum appuli ...; Ampla satis legatorum materies nobis occurrit, quam, ut qua fieri poterit breviori atque utiliori methodo comprehendamus…- Date: 1600
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLectura seu Declarationes U.J.D. domini Goffredi de Gaeta praesidentis et locumtenentis illustris Magni Camerarij regni Siciliae : quas idem auctor composuit ad releuandum legentes à labore corrigendi et interpetrandi Ritus Regiae Camerae … Goffredo di Gaeta was the Master of Accounts for Alfonso V of Aragon and Ferdinand I of Naples. A manuscript copy of his Ritus Regiae Camerae Summaria regni Neapolis. Title from title page. From the collection of Rev. L. Kuenzel, whose stamped ex libris is on front pastedown. Place of production inferred by cataloger. Date of production from Padiglione, Carlo. La biblioteca del museo…- Contributor: Gaeta, Goffredo DI
- Date: 1600
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLiber legu[m] et co[n]suetudinu[m] Imperij Romanie, app[ro]batar[um] in [Con]sillio [sic] Rogator[um] vigore part[is] capte in dicto Consilio q[ue] est anotata in principio huius librj Ms. In Venetian dialect of Italian; authorization by Venetian Republic in Latin. Title from caption on prelim. leaf 1b. The primary text begins (leaf 1a): Questo si he lo libro dele vxance delo Imperio de Romania ... Spine title: Uxanze de lo Imperio dè Romania. The text on leaves 1a-46a is a version, with a prologue and 219 chapters, of a code known as…- Contributor: Venice (Republic, to 1797) - Negropont (Venetian Colony)
- Date: 1453
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Book/Printed MaterialBreve della arte de tessandoli della cipta di Pisa LC copy has provenance: Purchased in 1947 from H.P. Kraus, New York. Shelf mark: LAW . See photocopy of Law shelflist card kept with book for useful information. vj01 2004-02-27.- Date: 1516
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Book/Printed Material[Statuta nova, 1 Edward III to 21 Richard II] Ms. Baker, J.H. English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., I, 23 ("Law MS. 2 (altered to 3") Accession number: LL616059; J[un]e 2 [19]41. Shelf mark: LAW .- Date: 1375
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Book/Printed Material[Capitulare officialium Urbis Venetiarum] Ms. Contains a collection of measures on contraband issued by Venetian officials known as Cattaveri, who supervised incoming and outgoing trade. Only the opening section was reproduced in Roberti, Le magistrature veneziane e i loro capitolari, Venezia, 1909, v. 3, p. 203-208. Dobbs & Haun. Law Library of LC, p. 43 LC provenance: Purchased in 1942 from William H. Schab, New York. Described in:…- Date: 1300
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Book/Printed Material[Summa de casibus conscientiae] Ms. The text, commonly called "Summa Pisana," is an alphabetically arranged 14th-c. canonistic encyclopedia completed by Bartholomew da San Concordio in 1338. Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance ms. bks., MS 111 Law Library shelf mark: LAW .- Contributor: Bartholomew
- Date: 1459
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Book/Printed MaterialDas behmische Lanndrecht oder Lanndsordnung deutsch Ms. Old shelf mark: LLEUR CASE LAW MSS .B6 1572.- Contributor: Bohemia (Kingdom)
- Date: 1572
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Book/Printed Material[Year Books and Reports]
Title on spine of container: Year Books Hen. VIII to Eliz. I "Liber Antonii Gell"; partly, if not wholly, in the hand of Anthony Gell (d. 1583) of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, and the Inner Temple. Begun in the 1550's. A collection of Year books 13 Richard II, 18-19 and 26-27 Henry VIII, varying slightly from the print. Reports from Mich. 33 Henry VIII (1541) to 1555, with additions from 1559 and 1572. Bound in original blind-stamped…- Contributor: Gell, Anthony
- Date: 1550
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Book/Printed MaterialRegistrum Brevium Ms. MS Baker 19 Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and renaissance mss., no. 138 Faye, C.U. and Bond, W.H.: Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 7 Law Library Rare Book Inventory Project- Contributor: England
- Date: 1400
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Book/Printed MaterialRegistrum Brevium Ms. MS Baker 13 Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and renaissance mss., no. 131 Law Library Rare Book Inventory Project- Contributor: England
- Date: 1390
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Book/Printed MaterialStatutes of Richard II Ms. MS Baker 18 Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and renaissance mss., no. 137 Law Library Rare Book Inventory Project- Contributor: England
- Date: 1390
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Book/Printed MaterialPseudo St. Bonaventura. Speculum Disciplinae. Nicolaus III and Clemens V. Declarationes Super Regulam Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Ms. MS B 62 Law Library Rare Book Inventory Project- Contributor: Germany
- Date: 1500
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Book/Printed MaterialNova statuta angliae Ms. Binding: speckled brown leather over pasteboard, framed with a double gilt fillet and a flower tool at each corner. Red leather title-piece to spine, lettered in gilt capitals “ACTA / PARLIAMEN/TO / M. S.” Other compartments tooled in gilt.- Date: 1450
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Book/Printed MaterialLiber super ethicorum aristotelis
Sententia libri Ethicorum | [Commentary on the Ethics of Aristotle] In Latin. Manuscript on parchment. Binding: red crushed morocco; six raised bands to spine with rules in blind, gilt title, “Sancti Tomae ab Aquino liber super libros ethicorum Aristotelis MSS”, and monogram of “E M B” -- probably French collector of the 19th century, E. M. Bancel.- Contributor: Thomas
- Date: 1470
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Book/Printed Material[Repetita commentatio super autentica constitutione habita] Binding: beige-pink doeskin over pasteboard; some leather ties present; sewn on three raised thongs.- Contributor: Bartolomeus Bologninus
- Date: 1492
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Book/Printed Material[Supplementum Summae Pisanellae] In Latin. Binding: brown blind-tooled leather over bevelled wooden boards on four bands; traces of two clasps to upper board, hand-lettered paper label to spine.- Contributor: Nicholas
- Date: 1445
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Book/Printed Material[Fuero juzgo] From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillips. Purchased in 1947 from W.H. Robinson, London. In Spanish. Ms. on vellum. The first comprehensive Spanish (Visigothic) compilation of laws in force during the 13th c. Dobbs & Haun. Law Library of LC, p. 34 Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress, 1948, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 39-40 Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.),…- Date: 1200
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