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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.45.1) | |
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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: 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) |
| Physical Description: | i original flyleaf + 374 pages, 198 x 162 (unruled; ca. 190 x 140) mm, ca. 25 long lines |
| Rubric: | Of Guardianship |
| Incipit: | In General there are in ye Digest five titles concerning Guardianship |
| 2o folio: | the office of a |
| Explicit: | (p. 367) Ideo, mater tale modo removeri nequit |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 367, Of Guardianship, 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 guardianship, marriage & ye nature of dominion or property etc 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, ‘Of Guardianship Vol. 1’ in ink on upper cover, edges speckled red |
| Notes: | Almost all text on rectos only. Contents list in pencil, 19th / 20th cent., upper pastedown and fol. i recto. A piece of paper was once stuck across the upper pastedown and flyleaf with shellac sealing wax. |
| 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 |
