In Hoc Volumine Continentur Aliquot Anni Regis Henrici Quinti cum...
Year Books of Henry V, Beale R67 [Year Books]. Henry V [Reigned 1413-1422]. In Hoc Volumine Continentur Aliquot Anni Regis Henrici Quinti cum Aliquibus Manuscriptis Exemplariis Collati Noviter Impressi. London: Imprinted...in Fleetestrete Within Temple Barre, At the Signe of the Hande and Starre by Richarde Tottyll, 1587. Three volumes in one. [77] ff. Folio (11-1/4" x 7-1/4"). Recent paneled calf, raised bands and blind stamping to spine, marbled endpapers. A few small scratches and some sunning to boards. Light toning to interior, light soiling in a few places, occasional worming and faint dampstaining to margins, light wear to fore-edge of final few leaves, occasional brief case references in an early hand with a large hand-written table to final leaf titled "Coronatoris Officia." $3,000. * The present volume, which covers regnal years 12-14, belongs to the so-called "Quarto Edition." Not a set or edition in the conventional sense, these volumes were issued separately with various dates and impressions between 1522 and 1619. Our copy includes a large hand- written table describing a coroner's duties with case citations. OCLC locates 5 copies of this edition, none in North America. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the Year Books. As a series of notes on debates and points of pleadings in Norman England they are of crucial primary sources for our knowledge of medieval common law. They also provide a richly detailed portrait of contemporary English life, customs and manners. The origin of the Year Books is unknown. Some scholars believe they were notes compiled by law students for study while others maintain they were made by lawyers for use in pleading. Though it is not known when the first manuscript volumes were compiled, extant examples date from the 1270s to 1535. Printed editions of the Year Books were first issued by William de Machlinia between 1481 and 1482. English Short-Title Catalogue S2021. Beale, Bibliography of Early English Law Books R67.
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