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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.46.3) | |
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| Author: | Francis Dickens (d. 1755) |
| Language: | English, with Latin |
| Origin: | England, Cambridge |
| Date: | 18th c., ca. 1705 -1755 |
| Material: | Paper. Watermark: crowned lion with wheat sheaf and taper within crowned circle, motto PRO PATRIA EIUSQUE UBE[. . . .] E (ca. 95 x 80 mm; this watermark occurs in other Trinity Hall MSS and in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.16.45) |
| Physical Description: | i original flyleaf + 372 pages, 195 x 155 (unruled; ca. 185 x 130) mm, ca. 26 long lines |
| Rubric: | Specification is another natural method of acquiring dominion |
| Incipit: | Specificatio nihil aliud est quam introductio nove forma in alienam materiam |
| 2o folio: | The 3 Requisites |
| Explicit: | (of Dicken’s text) a jus proprium et seperatum |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 371, Of Dominion, or Property, vol. 3 |
| Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
| Scribe: | Francis Dickens |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755); his gift (‘I do desire that the few manuscripts books I shall leave behind me on the nature of dominion, marriage & guardianship may find a place in some remote corner of the College Library never to be taken out thence on any account whatever. F. D.’, inscription, inside upper cover) |
| Binding: | 18th c., parchment over pasteboards, ‘Of Dominion or property, and the methods of acquiring it, vol. 3d’ in ink on upper cover, edges speckled red |
| Notes: | Almost all text on rectos only. Contents list in same late 18th / 19th cent. hand found in MS 45.3 is kept with this MS; this individual has also added a number of notes throughout and two paragraphs following the end of Dickens’s text, p. 371 (?signed ‘Harris’) |
| Bibliography: | C. Crawley, Trinity Hall : the history of a Cambridge college, 1350-1992. 2nd ed., expanded by G. Storey. (Cambridge, 1992), 124 |
| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
