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Anthony Taussig collection of English legal manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 184
Abstract:
A collection of approximately 400 manuscript items, including letters; letterbooks; copies of statutes, pleadings, opinions and precedents; King's Bench reports; abridgments and commonplace books of cases; and other papers, documenting the development and practice of English law and the evolution of the English legal system from the thirteenth into the twentieth century. Included are an early copy of Henry de Bracton's De legibus Anglie; a fourteenth-century pocket compilation of "Statuta...
Dates:
[circa 1280-1956]
Ralph Payne, Baron Lavington family papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 138
Abstract:
The papers document the West Indian portions of the economic fortunes and political career of the sugar planter and politician Ralph Payne, first Baron Lavington.
Dates:
1679-1855, bulk 1730-1790
Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of historical manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 838
Abstract:
The Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection of Historical Manuscripts contains approximately 500 manuscript documents, circa 1370s-1870s, consisting of letters, legal documents, and other manuscripts written or signed by European heads of state, government, diplomatic, military or church officials, or literary authors. Most materials are French, including documents signed by French royalty and nobility, 14th-18th centuries. Many French manuscripts date from the French Revolution and Napoleonic...
Dates:
circa 1370-1960s, bulk 1500-1830
Wilfred M. Voynich and Ethel Voynich provenance and research files on the Cipher (Voynich) manuscript
Collection
Call Number: Beinecke MS 408A
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains correspondence, notes, and articles on the provenance and research on the Cipher (Voynich) manuscript.
Dates:
1666; 1912-1976, bulk 1912-1976