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These apparently unpublished summaries of the European political scene from 1555-1557 take the position of condemning Cardinal Marcantonio Colonna, who was accused of being a disobedient rebel and excommunicated by Paul IV. Persuant to Colonna's excommunication, Paul IV's nephew, Carlo Carafa - mentioned several times in the present manuscripts - was made a cardinal. The later foliation in Arabic numerals at the tail edge of each folio (123-128; 129-136; 145-[149]), as well as the section headings in Roman numerals at the head edge of the first folio of each section (X, XI-XII, XV-XVI), indicate that these bifolia were once bound together. Before they were bound together into one codex (now disbound), a former owner folded some of the individual sections and wrote the title on the outside (fol. 6r, 18r), along with the numbers "10" and "5," respectively.

Allen Broussard discusses growing up in Louisiana, and later attending Law School at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. He talks about his law practice, building a political base, and working with the NAACP, Bay Area African American political leaders, and his service on the Oakland Municipal Court, Alameda Superior Court, and the California Supreme Court, including work with the Advisory Committee on Race and Gender in the California Courts. He closes with a discussion of his retirement.

Discussion of canonical principles in four books.

15th Century transcription of a Bull of Clement VI, "Ad memoriam reducendo," issued in 1344.

Joseph Sáenz de Aguirre's work against the 1682 Declaration of the Gallican Clergy. Many marginal notes and corrections throughout in a hand that is different from the one that wrote the main text.

Wansley talks about coming to Cal in 1940, and the experience of encountering a mentally ill roommate who attacks her (and a second roommate) with a knife. She describes how the trauma brought her and her second roommate together, eventually becoming a lesbian relationship. At the outbreak of World War II, she suspends her education temporarily in order to work as a welder in the San Francisco shipyards. In 1945 she enrolls in Boalt Hall Law School, one of a small group of women in the post-War class. She describes her career as an attorney, including many years with the Judge Advocate General's Office. She speaks at length about her struggle as a Catholic to resolve her sexuality and her spirituality, and the process of forming a lesbian identity.

Annotationes from the mid to late 16th century by 4 canon law professors, at least 3 of whom taught at the University of Toulouse: Martin Rossel, Pierre Grégoire, François de Lagarde. Extensive marginal notes on fol. 136-205. Fol. 77v-80v, 102rv, 131r-135v, 169r-171v blank.

A list of names of cathedrals or monasteries, together with a record of the source of their commendation (e.g. the king of Portugal, the emperor, the queen of England), beginning from the pontificate of Boniface IX up to the 5th year of the pontificate of Gregory XIII (ca. 1389-1577). Of particular interest are the records of cathedrals and monasteries in the British Isles. Evidence for their changing relations with the Holy See due to the policies of Henry VIII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, is revealed in the changing sources of the commendations.

Brown talks about his childhood in Los Angeles, mentions his education at USC and at Harvard Law School, and discusses briefly his early career in private practice in Los Angeles. He talks extensively about his theories of legal education and law firm management, and his career in teaching at USC Law School. He describes his development of the client counseling competition, and his sponsorship of an interactive video program produced by Harvard Law School. Discussion includes lawyer advertising, and the training and use of paralegals.