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: Parchment torn in lower right corner. 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: John Bigge, Thomas Marchaunt and William Ardern, cleric, buy from William Langles, knight, and his wife Lucia a mesuage of forty acres, twenty six acres of meadow, one hundred acres of pasture, sixty acres of woods, forty acres of heath, and forty solidi of income in Hakington, Whitstable, Herne, in the parish of St. Cosmus [sic] and Damian-in-the-Blean, all in the county of...
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