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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.75) | |
|---|---|
| Language: | English, with Latin |
| Origin: | England |
| Date: | 19th / 20th c., pre 1952 |
| Material: | Paper (factory made) |
| Physical Description: | 628 pages, (paginated i, 1 – 626, ii) 288 x 215 (ca. 260 x 105) mm, 2 columns, ca. 18 – 26 lines, pages folded to form columns; col. 2 frequently comprised of separate pieces of paper stuck to the page |
| Rubric: | N/A |
| Incipit: | (p. 16) Adelaide: Daughter of the Conqueror |
| 2o folio: | (p. 20; p. 18 blank) Adela: She was still |
| Explicit: | (p. 610) Oct. & Nov. 1095. He marched against them & is defeated |
| Contents: | pp. 16 – 478, Dictionary of Notable Anglo-Saxon and Norman Persons; pp. 494 – 610, Notes on miscellaneous figures in Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Anglo-Norman history |
| Script: | Cursive |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | FrederickHarold Sunderland (d. 1952 or later) of Howden, E. Riding, Yorks. (‘This Book was given to me by my worthy Antiquarian friend F. H. Sunderland Esquire of Howden, East Riding, in the County of York., xxii viii lii’, note by Larman, p. 2); George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | 20th c., half brown leather and brown canvas over paste boards, red and yellow endbands |
| Notes: | One main hand throughout, but with some notes in a second hand. Many entries are on other paper stuck into the MS; almost all the text is in the outer columns. Pp. 490 – 553 are smaller leaves mounted on guards and bound into MS. Loose leaves of notes kept between pp. 77 - 78, 89 - 90, 219 – 220, 227 – 228, 357 – 358. Larman was a student at Trinity Hall 1914 – 1918. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
