If you would like to know what kind of treasures are kept in the glass enclosed Rare Books Room on the second floor of the Law Library, sign up for a half-an-hour (or longer) tour of the Law Rare Books. To sign up for a tour, please send a request to me, Svetlana Kochkina, svetlana.kochkina@mcgill.ca, and I will notify you when we will have a necessary number of participants.
Haggadah de Pessah réunit les textes liturgiques et commente les rites qui scandent la cérémonie de la Pâque juive. C’est une reproduction en facsimilé d’un manuscrit enluminé, témoin de cette cérémonie et d’un moment clé de la culture juive. Le manuscrit reproduit ici a été réalisé par un scribe enlumineur hautement réputé du XVe siècle, Joël ben Siméon, dont les ateliers, sont connus pour la qualité exceptionnelle de leur production. Des lecteurs suivront les différentes étapes de la célébration en contemplant les somptueuses illustrations de ce livre. L’auteur de l’introduction vaste et instruisante, Maurice-Ruben Hayoun, est le spécialiste de la philosophie médiévale judéo-arabe et du renouveau de la pensée judéo-allemande de Moïse Mendelssohn à Gershom Scholem. Il a enseigné au département de philosophie de l’Université de Genève de 2003 à 2011.
Cet ouvrage, fortement intéressant, vise à contribuer à une meilleure connaissance de la civilisation byzantine, de son système juridique ainsi qu’à contribuer à la discussion concernant le relations et «le fil unificateur» entre la théorie et la pratique juridique.
Who would have thought that it might exist? But, here it is: Utopia, Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress, an opera that lampoons limited liability companies and incorporation laws with by music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. This second-to-last Gilbert-Sullivan’s performance was the longest-running production to premiere at the Savoy Theatre in the 1890s (245 performances). You can find more about this opera here.
The McGill Book Fair, held each fall in Redpath Hall, offers tens of thousands of used books, French and English, in all subjects ranging from architecture to zoology. In addition to books, the Book Fair also offers CDs, LPs, DVDs, and sheet music. One room is devoted exclusively to art and architecture, and another to old and rare volumes. Thie fair supports a worthy cause (endowed student bursaries), and the selection of books is outstanding. In 2010, the annual Book Fair donation to the University was $75,000. Come, find a book for you, and support a good cause.
Book Fair 2012:
Tuesday, October 23, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Wednesday, October 24, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Thursday, October 25, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Joseph Hémard (1880-1961), was in his lifetime one of the most prolific French book illustrator. His illustrations are the focus of the latest exhibit in the Yale Law Library, “‘And then I drew for books’: The Comic Art of Joseph Hémard.” The exhibit showcases eight of the 183 illustrations in Hémard’s Tax Code, donated to the Yale Law Library by Farley P. Katz, a tax attorney from San Antonio, who has one of the world’s finest collections of Hémard’s works, and other books from the Yale Law Library’s Rare Book Collection. You can find more information about the exhibit at the Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog.
This collection of essays discusses the fundamental questions and the issues of the methodology of legal history research. The authors explore the approaches, methods, and sources that form the basis of legal research and illuminate the complexities and the challenges of researching into the history of the law posed by visual, unwritten, non-legal , and traditional archival sources. You can find more information abou this books here.
This is the newest volume in the History of Medieval Canon Law series that gives a detailed overview of the history of Byzantine and Eastern canon law. Authors discuss the origin of canon law and the development of church order in the Early eastern Church, the corpus canonum before the Quinisext council, the Byzantine canons, and the imperial legislation and jurisprudence on church matters. You can find more information about this book here.
The author uses records of Inquisition witchcraft trials in Venice to explore how different classes of the Venetian society understood characteristics and boundaries of nature and the supernatural. This work describes the complex forces shaping early modern beliefs a through their manifestations and evidence in the witchcraft trials’ records. You can find more about this book here.
In medieval legal transactions the use of the written word was just one mean of communication among many other, e.g. the spoken word and the ‘action’ of legal ritual. This work discusses fifteen cases, ranging from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, and from England to Galician Rus’. It is is volume 22 of Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML), the series edited by Professor Marco Mostert. You can find a detailed list of the series’ content at their website. USML series is a forum for publications on the history of all form of communications in the Middle Ages, non-verbal, oral, and written. You can find more about this book here.