A group of thirty-nine autograph letters, signed, sent from James Dunn, a solicitor in Tolgus, Cornwall, to Samuel Percivall in Bath and Bristol, England, keeping him updated on the affairs concerning the Pendarves estate in Camborne, Cornwall. The le...
Description:
James Dunn (died 1773) was a solicitor in Tolgus, a village in the parish of Redruth, in west Cornwall, England.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Camborne., and Camborne (England)
Holograph manuscript containing copies of letters sent by Codrington to his agents in Antigua and Barbuda from 1779 to 1782 concerning the management of his estates and accounts, the employment of servants and slaves, the sugar trade, and the effects ...
Description:
Binding: original vellum inscribed "Letter Book 1779"; contemporary metal clasp, largely intact.
Subject (Geographic):
Antigua and Barbuda--History
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Plantation life--Caribbean Area, and Sugar trade--Antigua
Collection of 65 legal documents, on parchment, from the region around Bordeaux in the Duchy of Aquitaine. Dating from between 1254 and 1469, most of the items are in Old Provençal (Occitan) and document various land transactions, including sales, le...
Description:
Digital version available;
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., France, Aquitaine., and Aquitaine (France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Administration of estates, Church lands, Land tenure, and Economic conditions
Collection of 65 legal documents, on parchment, from the region around Bordeaux in the Duchy of Aquitaine. Dating from between 1254 and 1469, most of the items are in Old Provençal (Occitan) and document various land transactions, including sales, le...
Description:
Digital version available;
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., France, Aquitaine., and Aquitaine (France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Administration of estates, Church lands, Land tenure, and Economic conditions
Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hu...
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Biblesworth, Walter de.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry, Conduct of life, French language, Study and teaching, and Manuscripts, Medieval
