Posted:
07 Feb 2018
(old shelfmark **A.44.2) | |
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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: Britannia, with wheat sheaf, within palisade, motto PRO P[ATRIA] [. . . .] to right (ca. 90 x 95 mm; this watermark occurs in other Trinity Hall MSS and in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.16.45) |
Physical Description: | i original flyleaf + 285 pages, 194 x 158 (unruled; ca. 185 x ca. 140) mm, ca. 25 long lines |
Rubric: | Of matrimony |
Incipit: | Of the effect of fear on the contract |
2o folio: | But if ye promiser |
Explicit: | Next of marriages prohibited by reason of affinity |
Contents: | pp. 1 – 284, Tracts ‘Of Matrimony’ |
Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
Scribe: | Francis Dickens |
Decoration: | None |
Provenance: | Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755); his gift (‘I do desire yt ye few manuscript books I shall leave behind me on ye subject of matrimony, guardianship dominion or property may find a place in some remote corner of the College Library: never to be taken out thence on any acc[oun]t whatever. F. D.’, inscription inside upper cover) |
Binding: | 18th c., parchment over pasteboards, ‘Of marriage vol. 2’ in ink on upper cover, edges speckled red |
Notes: | Almost all text on rectos only. |
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 |