Shelfmark
MS 372
Main entry--corporate name
Title
Collection of records relating to the University of Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge, and Westminster College. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge, England? 1600s?.
Physical description
1 item (192 pages) : paper ; 30 x 19 cm.
Note
Title devised by cataloguer.
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Place and date of production inferred from internal evidence.
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186 pages have been paginated in ink.
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Written in black ink, in several hands, possibly working concurrently. Ruled in black ink.
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Transcriptions of legal and other records, including: Act of parliament incorporating the universities and confirming their privileges, the statutes of Trinity College Cambridge, papers including bequests and details of elections to various academic positions, the statutes of Westminster College, 'The composition betweext the university and the towne', the statutes of the University of Cambridge; extracts and copies of charters from the reigns of Richard II to Edward VI.
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate on front endpaper partly torn off.
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Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on inside front board.
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Inscription on inside front board: Liber collegii B.M. de Etona D.D. Edu. Betham socius. 1775. (i.e. given to Eton College by Edward Betham (1709-1783), Fellow of Eton College from 1771).
Binding
17th century mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border; blind tooled single fillet on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; rebacked in paler leather, possibly in the late 18th century, with earlier spine reattached; paper spine label; new endpapers; red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Statutes England Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Betham, Edward, 1709 - 1783 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge
Identifier
B49296