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Three catalogues: describing the contents of the Red Book of the Exchequer, of the Dodsworth manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and of the manuscrip

Three catalogues: describing the contents of the Red Book of the Exchequer, of the Dodsworth manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and of the manuscrip

Hunter, Joseph

Paperback

General LawBritish History

ISBN10: 9353800897
ISBN13: 9789353800895
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Unlock the paper trail of power, property, and precedent. Here are the records behind history. In Three catalogues, Joseph Hunter brings order and clarity to three formidable collections: the Red Book of the Exchequer with its English Exchequer records, the celebrated Dodsworth manuscripts catalogue held at the Oxford Bodleian Library, and the richly practical Lincolns Inn manuscripts rooted in the working life of the law. Part complete archival catalogue and part antiquarian manuscript guide, this is a scholarly reference edition built for readers who want to navigate primary sources without guesswork. Hunter identifies, describes, and frames materials essential to English legal history, the texture of medieval England manuscripts, and the everyday machinery of administration and lineage. For genealogy and heraldry research, the entries point to names, families, and evidentiary trails; for archival studies researchers, they model rigorous description; for manuscript paleography studies, they offer a map to what survives and where to look next. A landmark of nineteenth-century antiquarian scholarship, these catalogues still reward the curious browser and the classic-history collector alike: not just what was kept, but how a nation remembered. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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