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: Galfridus Sherard and his wife Iocasta, Thomas Sherard and his wife Margareta, John Grow and his wife Alicia, and Maurice Berkelay sell to William Hody, soldier, to Reginald Gray, soldier, to William Smith, cleric, to Richard Banson (?), and to David Philipp the manors in Woodhouse [Leicestershire] and in Griggecasterton [not identified] with forty acres of land, two hundred...
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