“Jean-Jacques Lequeu (Rouen, September 14, 1757 – 28 March 1826) was a French draughtsman and architect. […] He spent time preparing the Architecture Civile, a book intended for publication, but which was never published. Most of his drawings can be found at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Some of them are pornographic and are kept in the Enfer of the library.” (wikipedia)

More drawings at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

“The Digest, also known as the Pandects (Lat. Digesta seu Pandectae, adapted from Gr. πανδέκτης pandektes, “all-containing”), is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century (A.D. 530-533). The Digest was one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the body of civil law issued under Justinian I. The other two parts were Institutiones, and the Codex Constitutionum. A fourth part, the Novels (or “Novellae Constitutiones”), was added later.” (more)

Browse the English translation by Alan Watson on Google Books. More about this translation on the editor’s website. Download the volume one in another translation by Charles Henrey Monro. A partial French translation is also available online. And of course, the whole text is available in Latin.

About Lapham’s Quarterly:

“Each issue of Lapham’s Quarterly adopts and explores a single theme. Our first four issues were dedicated, respectively, to War, Money, Nature, and Education, each created with an aim to help readers find historical threads from Homer to Queen Elizabeth I to George Patton, from Aesop to Edith Wharton to Joan Didion. New essays from writers such as Stanley Fish, Fritz Stern, and Andrew Delbanco then knotted each theme together. A typical issue features an introductory Preamble from Editor Lewis H. Lapham; approximately 100 “Voices in Time” — that is, appropriately themed selections drawn from the annals and archives of the past — and newly commissioned commentary and criticism from today’s preeminent scholars and writers.” (more)

First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.

“Welcome to the Comic Blog Elite toplist, a resource for fans, creators, retailers, and publishers to identify the very best comic blogs on the net — based on actual site hits”

The Comic Blog Elite is moderated by Matt Bergin from Division 18:

“Matt has been making comics all his life… but mostly in crayon on construction paper, and later in the margins of notebooks when he should’ve been studying. Eventually, Matt started working as an editor in the health communications industry (fun!), but managed to squeeze in time during the 9 to 5 grind to work on his comics, make more talented friends, and, ultimately, make comics with those more talented friends. He was even able to fit in contributing to the comics website PopCultureShock.com, where he hooked up with the Silent Devil crew. Thus, through blatant professional misconduct, Division 18 and a genuine comics career were born.”(more)

Meatpaper

“Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat. We like metaphors more than marinating tips. We are your journal of meat culture.

At once divisive and universal, delicious and disturbing, funny and dead-serious, meat polarizes us unlike any other food. Us, we’re ambidextrous here at Meatpaper — no agenda except to gnaw on the ideas, artistic excursions and bone-deep emotions the subject inspires. We invite you to dig in with us.” (more)