The University Library recently acquired a collection of manuscript commercial court decisions (1907-1917) belonging to the late Judge Alfredo Parnis (1860-1925).

Judge Parnis, an authority on commercial law, was a member of the Bench from 1907 to 1925 and was one time professor of commercial law at this University. His beautifully bound 24-volume set of decisions, which for many years had been in the custody of Judge Montanaro Gauci, have been presented to the Library by Colonel Eric Parnis, a grandson of Judge Parnis.

The presentation ceremony also included a donation by Notary Dr Paul Pisani of CD voice recordings of interviews carried out with his late father, Gozitan poet Gorg Pisani, during the TV programmes Zafir, Ghawdex Illum, and Bronja.

The Pisani recordings come as a valuable addition to the University Library's growing collection of voice recordings of men of letters which, through collaboration with the Ghaqda tal-Malti (Università), has come to include recordings of Dun Karm, Guzè Aquilina, P.P. Saydon and others.