Manuscript/Mixed Material Abridgment of the common law. On Manuscript Division finding aid, (not numbered): Abridgement of the common law / Described in Handbook of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, 1918: Early law notes
About this Item
Title
- Abridgment of the common law.
Other Title
- On Manuscript Division finding aid, (not numbered): Abridgement of the common law
- Described in Handbook of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, 1918: Early law notes
Names
- Byrd, William, 1674-1744, former owner.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner.
- Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [17th century]
Headings
- - Law--England--Digests--Early works to 1800
Notes
- - Title from Sowerby.
- - Manuscript written in an unidentified 17th century hand. Incomplete: the text begins with "Forfeiture". Passages have been crossed-out. The original binding (preserved) measures 21 cm. The manuscript leaves have been encapsulated in plastic sleeves, and divided in 2 volumes. Several pages have holes and are missing text.
- - Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1795
- - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. Handbook of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, 1918, page 505, (17)
- - Includes a manuscript index in a hand different from that of the text. The index gives "Forfeiture" as beginning on p. 1. There are 10 blank leaves after the index, counted in the pagination.
- - Forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate; and the armorial bookplate of William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esq.
- - Purchase; Thomas Jefferson, 1815.
- - At one time this volume was listed in the finding aid to the Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1943 as Series 8, volume 3. It was too fragile to be microfilmed and has now been removed from the finding aid, with note: (the volume originally numbered 3 ... is damaged and therefore was not digitized.) he04 2016-02-08
Medium
- 2 v. [394] p. ; 22 x 23 cm
Call Number/Physical Location
- KD671.A59
- Manuscript 14
Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Jefferson.56127_v1.1
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Jefferson.56127_v2.1
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Jefferson.56127_v3.1
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2016656127
Online Format
- image