Justinian’s Institutes
In the year 533 the Emperor Justinian reformed legal education in the Eastern Roman Empire, proscribing a new five-year course of study....
This drawing is found in one of our recent acquisitions. What makes it special is that the book is the very first law book printed by a woman: Argumentum Institutionum...
With this final installment on our earliest printed books, we will have covered all the early centers of printing in Italy: Rome, Naples, and now Venice.
Printing came...
Continuing with a review of the earliest printed books in the Yale Law Library, we move from Strassburg in 1471 to Naples, and a printer who learned his craft in Strassburg...
My friend and collaborator Mark Weiner has produced the latest installment in his series of videos on rare law books. “Water, Paper, Law” is an almost poetic meditation, in...
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...
Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva, Qvaestionvm practicarvm (1573), bound with his Variarvm resolvtionvm ivridicarvm (1573). Showing the arms of George Carteret.
Diego de...
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...
Earlier this week – August 19, to be exact – was the 200th anniversary of one of the U.S. Navy’s most famous battles, the victory of the U.S.S...
![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=BLql5AXZ "Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii [= Complete collection of the laws of the Russian empire]. St. Petersburg, 1839-1873.")
