New York University, Fragment 015

Metadata

DS ID:

DS427

Shelfmark:

Fragment 015

Title:

Writ of Praecipe

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1568, April 27; s. XVI(3/4); 1550-1575

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Script, Face: Secretary.
Layout, Face: 7 long lines.

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.
Face; dorse with notes: For three other Praecipe documents, see Fragments 021, 022, 022 bis.
Explicit, Face; dorse with notes: Elizabeth I, queen of England, commands William Bramende, his wife Isabelle, William Estland and Thomas <D>enyall to give up the mesuage, two gardens of twenty acres, the three acres of pasture and the three acres of woods in Godstone [co. Surrey] to Henry Bedle which they unjustly keep from him, and if they will not do so, let them come before our court one...

Holding Institution:

New York University