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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.46.4) | |
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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 + 374 pages, (unpaginated after p. 300) 195 x 160 (unruled; ca. 190 x 130) mm, ca. 27 long lines |
| Rubric: | De inventione thesauri |
| Incipit: | All our natural acquisitions may be reduced to one of these two heads, occupancy or accession |
| 2o folio: | A thesaurus is |
| Explicit: | (p. 283) the chief of which were |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 283, Of Dominion or Property, vol. 4 |
| Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
| Scribe: | Francis Dickens |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755); his gift (no donor inscription, but same hand as other Dickens MSS) |
| Binding: | 18th c., parchment over pasteboards, ‘Of Dominion, and of the ways of acquiring it, vol. 4’ in ink on upper cover, edges speckled red |
| Notes: | Almost all text on rectos only. Notes in same late 18th / 19th cent. hand as appears in other Dickens MSS throughout this MS, including an expansion of Dickens’s first paragraph written on fol. i verso. Pencil contents list, 19th / 20th c., fol. i recto. |
| 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 |
