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.
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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Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346. f. 1r; f. 1v blank: Latin. Incipit, f. 1; f. 1v blank: distincte et aperte sine dilatione reddatis certiores hoc litere nobis remittentes. Teste me ipso apud Hanaperium xx die Martii Anno <Regni> <nostri> quinto decimo. Elie Soall. Explicit, f. 1; f. 1v blank: The sheriffs of London are ordered by Henry VI to compel Thomas, William, and John (all heirs) and William Dow(?) to find sureties for their peaceable behavior towards John Cotes, whose existence they have threatened. Given at (? the Hanaperium), 20 April 1437.
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