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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.38) | |
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| Language: | English |
| Origin: | England |
| Date: | 18th c., after 1724 |
| Material: | Paper. Watermarks: crowned Royal arms (quarterly, 1 and 4 England and Scotland impaled, 2 France, (modern) 3 Ireland; Queen Anne, 1707 -1714) with Garter; crowned G |
| Physical Description: | iii contemporary paper flyleaves + 82 folios (foliated i – iv (by cataloguer), 2 – 78) + iii contemporary paper flyleaves, 308 x 190 (246 x 258) mm, 30 – 41 long lines, ruled in orange ink, running headers, catchwords on most leaves, leaf lost between fols. iv – 2 |
| Rubric: | (fol. iv verso) A Treatise upon the Civil Law and the Analogy which the Laws of England in many respects bear to it. |
| Incipit: | Law is defined by Tully in his first Book de Legibus to be right Reason implanted in Man |
| 2o folio: | Encomiums that have |
| Explicit: | The study hereof can best render men Reasonable Creatures & fit them to act with Justice Prudence & Honour in all the great Offices of Life |
| Contents: | Fols. i recto – iv recto, List of books used, with an explanation of the marginal references in the text; fols. iv verso – 78, Law Procedure lectures (A Treatise on Civil Law) |
| Script: | Mixed cursive script |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | 19th c. Trinity Hall bookplate inside upper cover |
| Binding: | 18thc., half brown leather and marbled paper over paste boards, red endbands (almost lost) |
| Notes: | Written on recto only, except fol. iv (replacing text lost from original title page). Offset of original title page on fol. iv verso (title in Contents taken from this); it is assumed that the text on fol. iv verso was copied soon after page 1 (title page) was lost. Corrections and annotation, some in a different but roughly contemporary hand. Dating based on publication date of one of the texts cited. Top half of flyleaf iii and lower section of flyleaf vi removed. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
