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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| Language: | Latin and English |
| Origin: | England, Cambridge |
| Date: | 18th c., 1718 or later |
| Material: | Paper. Watermark; crowned shield with fleur-des-lys, LVG and ‘4’ merchant mark below (ca. 65 mm wide). Same watermark occurs in Trinity Hall MS. 39, and possibly in MS. 41 |
| Physical Description: | 276 pages (paginated i – x, (by cataloguer) 1 – 159, + 102 unpaginated pages), 240 x 188 (195 x 150) mm, 16 – 18 long lines, ruled in plummet |
| Rubric: | None |
| Incipit: | Elizabetha Dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regina |
| 2o folio: | (p. 3) incremanto, omnes gradus |
| Explicit: | Imprisonment if need require. T. Gooch Vicechancellor. John Covel, R. Jenkin, Tho. Richardson, John Balderston, C. Ashton, Wm. Grigg, Edw. Lany, Tho: Sherlock |
| Contents: | pp. iii – vii, Index of Statues; pp. 1 – 101, Academic Statues of the University of Cambridge; pp. 103 – 105, Index of Interpretations; pp. 107 – 159, Interpretation of Statutes |
| Script: | Formal round hand |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | ‘Trinity Hall’ in 18th c. hand, upper cover. |
| Binding: | 18th c., reversed brown leather over paste boards, black-tooled central panel and edge design, blue and salmon endbands |
| Notes: | Last recorded Interpretation dated 23 September 1718. |
| Bibliography: |
© Trinity Hall, Cambridge
