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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.48) | |
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| Author: | Francis Dickens (d. 1755) |
| Language: | English, with Latin |
| Origin: | England, Cambridge |
| Date: | 18th c., ca. 1705 -1755 |
| Material: | Paper. Watermarks: crowned lion with wheat sheaf and taper within crowned circle, motto PRO PATRIA EIUSQUE UBE[. . . .] E (ca. 95 x 80 mm; this watermark occurs in other Trinity Hall MSS and in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.16.45); crowned GR |
| Physical Description: | i original flyleaf + 278 pages, (unpaginated after p. 50) 200 x 160 (unruled; ca. 190 x 135) mm, ca. 26 long lines |
| Rubric: | None |
| Incipit: | Sir, In pursuance of my late promise I have put together what I thought might most plausibly be offerd (sic) in support of Ulpians Definition of the Law of Nature |
| 2o folio: | (p. 3) vera adulleria et |
| Explicit: | (p. 50) a person who is perhaps better able to conduct himself both in point of conscience & prudence than I am to advise him |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 7, Copy of a letter by Dickens concerning Ulpian’s Definition of the Law of Nature; pp. 13 – 19, Concerning the Jus Naturale and Jus Gentium; pp. 25 – 28, Copy of a letter from Chief Justice Reeves to his nephew; pp. 29 – 50, A case of conscience concerning the obligation to discover and deliver up an estate to the right heir |
| Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
| Scribe: | Francis Dickens |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755); his gift (no donor inscription, but in his hand, and NB Contents) |
| Binding: | 18th c., parchment over pasteboards, edges speckled red |
| 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 |
