Back to all manuscripts
Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.50) | |
|---|---|
| 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 + 326 pages, 240 x 190 (unruled; ca. 230 x 170) mm, ca. 30 long lines |
| Rubric: | Of vulgar substitution |
| Incipit: | Substitutio define hec quod sic secundo vel ulteriori gradu facto institutio |
| 2o folio: | (p. 3) which was ever |
| Explicit: | But especially 401 fol. Edit. |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 326, Tracts, ‘On substitutions’ |
| Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
| Scribe: | Francis Dickens |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755); his gift (‘I do desire that this Book may find a place in some remote part of the College Library never to be taken out thence on any account whatever.’, inscription, fol. i recto) |
| Binding: | 18th c., lace-cased, parchment over pasteboards, edges speckled red, ‘W2’ on bottom edge |
| Notes: | |
| 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 |
