Nomotechnia, viz. the art of law or a description of the common lawes of England according to the rules of art together with all the cheife and principall statutes comeinge in their places whereby the common law is inlarged abridged or any way altered from the beginneinge of Magna Charta made 9 H. 3 to the end of the fourtyeth yeare of her late maties. most gratious raygne [manuscript], 1607.
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Nomotechnia, viz. the art of law or a description of the common lawes of England according to the rules of art together with all the cheife and principall statutes comeinge in their places whereby the common law is inlarged abridged or any way altered from the beginneinge of Magna Charta made 9 H. 3 to the end of the fourtyeth yeare of her late maties. most gratious raygne [manuscript], 1607.
Uniform title
Nomotechnia. English
Description
1 item ; 20 x 16 cm
Associated name
Finch, Henry, Sir, -1625. author.
Vincent, Augustine, approximately 1584-1626, former owner.
Vincent, Augustine, approximately 1584-1626, former owner.
Material base
Vellum binding.
Scope and content
Manuscript is more concise than the published English version of 1627 (Law, or, A discourse thereof in four books (STC 10871)). Includes "An alphabeticall table where the first collome sheweth the matt[e]r the other a referance to the leafe where it is spoken of" at end of volume (references not complete).
Note
Contemporary foliation: 176, 178-199, [16] leaves. (Leaves 112-119 mis-bound after leaf 103.) No gap in text.
First word of title in Greek script.
Finch's Nomotechnia was first published in Law French in 1613 (STC 10870) and posthumously in English in 1627 (STC 10871).
Manuscript title pasted in engraved title page border. Cadel (knotwork) initials at the beginning of each section (anthropomorphic initials on leaves 2 and 64). The date "23 Maij Anno d. 1607" appears within decorative initial on leaf 80.
Formerly attributed to Augustine Vincent the herald, whose name appears at end of text, leaf 200, and initials on the binding.
First word of title in Greek script.
Finch's Nomotechnia was first published in Law French in 1613 (STC 10870) and posthumously in English in 1627 (STC 10871).
Manuscript title pasted in engraved title page border. Cadel (knotwork) initials at the beginning of each section (anthropomorphic initials on leaves 2 and 64). The date "23 Maij Anno d. 1607" appears within decorative initial on leaf 80.
Formerly attributed to Augustine Vincent the herald, whose name appears at end of text, leaf 200, and initials on the binding.
Publications about material
Prest, W. R. Cambridge Law Journal, Oct. 1977.
Provenance
Augustine Vincent MS.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library 2015. The Age of Lawyers. Opening: sig. f2.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1815.2
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.320
Folger accession
cs1815