(Q2015)
Statements
Notes of fines
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This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.
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by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
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?,; s. XIII(3/3); 1260-1299
13. century
1260Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Script, f. 1r-v: Documentary script.
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Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
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f. 1r-v: Note: carrot-topped ascenders, mainly as hooks to the right.
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f. 1r-v: Notes of fines, as an earlier stage in the matter of levying a final concord; on the dorse is a symbol used by the clerks of the Common Pleas.
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Explicit, f. 1r-v: Matilla, daughter of Bartholomew of Walnehope [this place not found] buys from four couples (Gilbert Tripeler and his wife Iohanna; William of Gravenherst and his wife Iuliana; Robert of Bingham and his wife Alicia; and Walter of Filesham and his wife Agatha) a mesuage and one and one half virgates of land in Brede, in East Sussex (8 miles north of Hastings and 4 miles west...
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We are very grateful to Dr. Mary L. Robertson and to Sir John H. Baker for their help in identifying the documents in this series: NYU Fragments 11, 12, 13, 19, 20. In addition, the class for Middle English paleography, taught by Prof. Christopher Baswell in Spring term, 2018, identified scripts in blitz sessions at the end of term; we thank these students very much.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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