New York University, Fragment 020

Metadata

DS ID:

DS358

Shelfmark:

Fragment 020

Title:

Notes of fines

Place:

England, Leicestershire and Staffordshire

England TGN

Date:

1414, November 25; s. XV(1/4); 1400-1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Script, f. 1r-v: Anglicana.

Former Owner(s):

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.

Homer Lewis Bartlett WIKIDATA

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).

Note:

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: George Longville (c. 1389-1458) and his wife, Elizabeth (c. 1397-c. 1426) buy from Edmund Ferrers of Chartley and his wife, Ellen (sister of Elizabeth Longville) lands in the manor of Stapleton (Leicestershire) and in the manors of Kestone and Paxton [co. Huntingdon, in Staffordshire) and land in Stramshull (Strongeshall?; in Staffordshire) for one hundred marks of silver...

Holding Institution:

New York University