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civil law

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: System of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs. Examples are systems developed from the Roman law, influenced by Germanic, ecclesiastical, and purely modern institutions.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

A teaching collection of medieval manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0175
Abstract This collection consists of 15 leaves from medieval manuscripts selected for the purposes of teaching medieval textual culture. Every common book-type is represented: psalter, gradual, missal (Sanctorale and Temporale), lectionary, folio Bible, pocket Bible, breviary, civil law, Book of Hours (three examples spanning two centuries), capitulary, as well as leaves from a Quran and an Ethiopian Gospel book in Ge'ez that represent the ongoing tradition of manuscript production in the...
Dates: approximately 1250-approximately 1920