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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.49) | |
|---|---|
| Author: | Francis Dickens (d. 1755) |
| Language: | English, with Latin |
| Origin: | England, Cambridge |
| Date: | 18th c., 1747 |
| Material: | Paper. Watermark: ?fleur-de-lys (in gutter) |
| Physical Description: | i original flyleaf + 290 pages, 240 x 190 (unruled; ca. 235 x 155) mm, ca. 28 long lines |
| Rubric: | Of a succession to an intestate estate |
| Incipit: | See Dig. 28 J16 Cod. 6J55; 58 n118, the method observed by Justin |
| 2o folio: | (p. 3) the succession by |
| Explicit: | and of forcing him to leave the woman |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 290, Tracts, ‘Of succession to an intestate estate’ |
| Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
| Scribe: | Francis Dickens |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755) 25 November 1747 (date on fol. i verso); his gift (‘I do desire that this Book may find a place in some remote corner of Trinity Hall Library never to be taken out thence on any account whatever. F. D.’, inscription, fol. i verso) |
| Binding: | 18th c., lace-cased, parchment over pasteboards, edges speckled red |
| Notes: | 19th / 20th cent. contents list, in pencil, 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 |
