Institutiones D. Iustinianei (1664), with arms of Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott.
This copy of the Institutes of Justinian, the introductory text of Roman law taught for...
Magna Charta (1576), with arms of Henry Yelverton.
Magna Carta (1215) stands as one of the great legal documents of the western world. Famously, the English King John was...
Lucius Annaeus Florus, L. Annaei Flori Epitome rerum Romanarum (1744), with arms of The Hague (Netherlands).
Florus (c. 74 – c. 130 AD) is known chiefly for his Epitome, or...
Robert Brady, An Introduction to the Old English History (1684), showing the arms of Henry Peter Brougham.
Robert Brady (1627?-1700) was a doctor and later professor at...
Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva, Qvaestionvm practicarvm (1573), bound with his Variarvm resolvtionvm ivridicarvm (1573). Showing the arms of George Carteret.
Diego de...
Ordinationi e statute della ven. Archiconfraternita di Santa Maria della Pieta in Campo Santo delle nationi teutonica, e di Fiandra (1683).
This binding, 18th-century mottled...
John Selden, Table-talk (1689), with arms of John Poulett.
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John Fortescue, The Works of Sir John Fortescue, Knight (1869), with the arms of Evelyn Philip Shirley.
Fortescue (c. 1394-1480) was a leading jurist and Lord Chief Justice...
Heraldic devices were – and still are – sources of pride for individuals and families. Arms traditionally denote rank within a nobility, indicate prestigious associations...
![Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii [= Complete collection of the laws of the Russian empire]. St. Petersburg, 1839-1873.](https://library.law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_thumbnail/public/romanoff_eagle-resized.jpg?itok=KvjNMip7 "Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii [= Complete collection of the laws of the Russian empire]. St. Petersburg, 1839-1873.")
