Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of entries.

Authors

• Clymer, Daniel Cunyngham, 1748-1810
• Dhiren H. Shah W'82 and Katherine M. Shah Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1920
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977129793503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1034656620

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1767-1770

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

Compilation of legal forms, writs, and decisions, most frequently originating in Philadelphia, but with other counties in Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Lancaster), New Jersey (Hunterdon), and Maryland (Talbot) represented, collected by Philadelphia lawyer Daniel Cunyngham Clymer (signature, p. i). Areas of law involved include admiralty, property, and criminal law. A subject index, with the subjects in alphabetical order and entries related to those subjects listed under them in page order, is at the end of the volume (p. 359-369).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from ink title on upper cover.
   

Extent

187 leaves : 198 x 160 mm bound to 205 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, 187 leaves; [i-ii], 1-253, 253-273, [275-356 (blank), 357-372]; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) calf; boards detached and some leaves loose and detached; remnants of bands at head and tail of spine dangling; title in ink on upper cover, Book of entries, August 30th 1767.

Layout

Headings for each entry in left margin.

Script

Written in cursive script, probably in the hand of Daniel Cunyngham Clymers.

Provenance

• Sold by Meyer Boswell Books (San Francisco, California), 2017.
   

Subjects topical

• Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• Legal documents--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800
• Legal instruments--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Reference books
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• Legal
• United States

Licenses

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