- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1650]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 75
- Image Count:
- 712
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the personal handbook of a legal scholar (perhaps from Gloucestershire?) arranged according to subject and with internal cross references; some theological and literary notes interspersed (Latin texts, some with translations into English). Includes sections devoted to: Constable and Marshall, Preachers and Preaching, Creeds, Barons, Constables and Marshalls, Barons, Seales, Seals of the King, Indictments...London, Barons and Earles, Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Corporations, Treason
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: unidentified arms with fleur-de-lis and various counter-marks including IHS., Script: Written in a small cramped legal script by several writers., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown leather, flesh side out or very worn.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Lawyers and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lawyer's commonplace book of precedents
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