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Title

Modus tenendi parliamentum apud Anglos

Authors

• Elsynge, Henry, 1577-1635 or 6

Other related names

• Hickman, William, 1629-1682, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1556
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4543698
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4543698

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with title of first work and numerous legal terms in both works in Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1640-1660?

Place

London?

Summary

Two works concerning governance and law bound together. The first work is the first book of Henry Elsynge's treatise on parliamentary procedure, despite the caption title's assertion that the work is "in two bookes" (f. 2r). The treatise comprises eight chapters addressing summons, appearance, locus et modus sedendi, Parliament days, proxies, summonitionis causa, prolocutor domus communis, and receivers and triers of petitions. The second work is a treatise on nobility in English law and custom in six chapters, addressing topics such as the creation of titles, the inheritance of titles, laws concerning nobles in trials, the privileges of nobility, and the cessation or loss of nobility.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from caption title of first work (f. 2r) and title page of second work (f. 141r)
   

Extent

276 leaves : 294 x 182 (Work 1, 239 x 115; Work 2, 223 x 120) mm. bound to 299 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 276 + i; [1-144, 145-276 (contemporary foliation 1-132)]; modern foliation in pencil and contemporary foliation in ink (when present), upper right recto. Catchwords every page, lower right corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf and endpapers, rebacked in the 19th century (Christopher Edwards).

Layout

First work written in 24 long lines; second work written in 19-22 long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script by at least three different hands for the first work, table of contents for second work, and second work (f. 2r-139v, 142r-143v, 145r-276r). The hand of the second work is the latest of the three.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Hickman family of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, probably Sir William Hickman (1629-1682), second baronet (armorial bookplate inside upper cover, Hickman Barrt., motto Toujours Fidelle).
   
• Sold by Christopher Edwards (Wallingford, England), 2009.
   

Subjects topical

• England and Wales.--Parliament--Rules and practice
• Parliamentary practice--England--History--17th century
• Nobility--Great Britain--History
• Nobility--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, English--17th century

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Modus tenendi parliamentum apud Anglos, f. 1r
• fol. 141r — A treatise of nobilitie in generall, f. 141r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover