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-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. Explicit, f. 1r-v: Radulfus Alisaundre and Iohannes Deverell buy from William Alisaundre and his wife, Edith, the third part of the manor of Thornton with two mesuages, 400 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, and fourteen parts of the income in Magna Kingston and Parva Kingston, and the advowson of the churches in Thornton and in Stondland; the document was written in Dorset, on the octave of...
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