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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.46.1) | |
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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 + 376 pages, 200 x 160 (unruled; ca. 180 – 190 x 130 - 140) mm, ca. 26 long lines |
| Rubric: | Of Dominion, or Property; and the ways of acquiring the same |
| Incipit: | There is a long title on this head Instit. Lib. 2 Tr, which is for the most part taken from another long title in the Dig. Lib. 41 T1, de acquirendo renem’ dominio |
| 2o folio: | distinct property ariseth |
| Explicit: | I can better gratify & assist a friend a guest or a companion |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 375, Tracts ‘Of Dominion, or Property, vol. 1’ |
| 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 dominion or property, marriage & guardianship may find a place in some remote corner of the College Library never to be taken out thence on any account whatever. F. D.’, inscription, fol. i recto) |
| Binding: | 18th c., parchment over pasteboards, 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 |
