The Mirror of Justices
The Mirror of Justices, also known in Anglo-Norman as Le mireur a justices[3] and in Latin as Speculum Justitiariorum,[4] is a law text book[5] of the early 14th century, written in Anglo-Norman French by Andrew Horn (or Horne). The original manuscript is in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (manuscript identifier CCCC MS 258).[6]
The work was published in 1642,[1] based on a copy owned by Francis Tate and the Cambridge manuscript.[7] In 1646 it was translated into English and printed together with Anthony Fitzherbert's The Diversity of Courts and their Jurisdictions.[2] This version was republished in 1659[8] and 1768.[9] In 1895 the Selden Society published an edition of the work containing the Anglo-Norman text with a parallel English translation, and an extensive introduction by Frederic William Maitland.[4]
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