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The Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia

The Legal Education of George Sharswood (1810-1883): An Excerpt from His Manuscript Family Memoranda in the Hampton L. Carson Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Journal Article The Legal Education of George Sharswood (1810–1883): An Excerpt from His Manuscript Family Memoranda in The Hampton L. Carson Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia Get access Howell J. Heaney Howell J. Heaney Bibliographer *The Rare Book Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1958, Pages 259–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/844392 Published: 01 July 1958

Advice to a Law Student: A Letter of William Wirt in the Hampton L. Carson Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Advice to a Law Student: A Letter of William Wirt in The Hampton L. Carson Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia Get access Howell J. Heaney Howell J. Heaney Bibligrapher *Rare Book Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1958, Pages 256–258, https://doi.org/10.2307/844391 Published: 01 July 1958

The Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia

The Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Greek Uncial Fragments in the Library of Congress in Washington

There is preserved in the Rare Book Department of the Library of Congress in Washington a sheet of parchment comprising two folia of a medieval manuscript, each covered on both sides with Greek text in uncial script. Seymour de Ricci, in his Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (N. Y. 1935, I, 211), lists this unique and precious fragment and describes it as follows:‘Library of Congress, ms. no. 60: Sermons, in Greek. Vel. (VIIIth c.), 2 ff. only (27 × 20 cm.), the 2 outer of a quire, 36 lines to a page, written in sloping uncials….Obtained in 1929 … from Casella of Naples (Ms. Ac. 4189, 10, nn. 1–6); certainly of South-Italian origin.’The catalogue does not undertake to identify the author of the text.

Greek Uncial Fragments in the Library of Congress in Washington

There is preserved in the Rare Book Department of the Library of Congress in Washington a sheet of parchment comprising two folia of a medieval manuscript, each covered on both sides with Greek text in uncial script. Seymour de Ricci, in his Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (N. Y. 1935, I, 211), lists this unique and precious fragment and describes it as follows:‘Library of Congress, ms. no. 60: Sermons, in Greek. Vel. (VIIIth c.), 2 ff. only (27 × 20 cm.), the 2 outer of a quire, 36 lines to a page, written in sloping uncials….Obtained in 1929 … from Casella of Naples (Ms. Ac. 4189, 10, nn. 1–6); certainly of South-Italian origin.’The catalogue does not undertake to identify the author of the text.