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English Legal Manuscripts
Editor: Prof. Dr. J.H. Baker, Cambridge University Essential sources for the history of English law IDC Publishers has made available the English Legal Manuscripts Project, a collection of manuscript year books, reports of cases, readings and moots. Only a very small proportion of the extant material in these classes has been printed, and so the manuscripts remain essential sources for the historian of English law. The project enables libraries and private scholars to collect unpublished material relevant to their interests on a scale which has not before been practicable, and thereby alleviates the previously insurmountable difficulties involved in trying to study and compare substantial quantities of widely dispersed texts. Library of John Moore Stage VII, The Cambridge University Library has been added to this project. These manuscripts form one of the two or three most important collections of such material in the world, the principal treasures being derived from the renowned library of John Moore (d. 1714), Bishop of Ely, which was presented to the University by King George I in 1715. IDC's collection of English Legal Manusripts now includes the majority of all known manuscripts outside the British Library. From Microform Review The following excerpts are from an evaluation by R.H. Helmholz, Professor of Law and History and Bernard D. Reams, Jr., Associate Professor of Law and Law Librarian, Washington University, St. Louis, in Microform Review, January 1976. V.5, no. 1. F.W. "Maitland's great History of English Law ends with the accession of Edward I in 1272. With a few notable exceptions, the period between 1330 and 1700 is still poorly explored by legal historians. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are particularly dark. This project will open up many new avenues for research into the period. Edited under the direction of Prof. Dr. J.H. Baker, barrister at law and fellow of St. Catharine's at Cambridge, it excludes from its scope record sources, such as plea rolls and local court records. But it will make generally accessible a large part of all the other unprinted material for these centuries. ... Of the sources chosen for inclusion, the Readings should be of special value. They were lectures given by eminent lawyers at the Inns of Court. Usually they dealt with a particular statute, and they were widely cited as sources of the law. Very few are in print. Their wider accessibility through microfiche will open up new avenues of study into the history of both legal education and legal doctrine. This project will not end the scholar's need. But it opens up exciting new possibilities for research now impossible without inordinate travel and expense." External finding aids Printed guide A printed guide to Stages I-VII of 90 pages, with a brief listing of the manuscripts in each Section. Stages I-VI also contain a chronological table of both reports and year books and an alphabetical table of readers, a chronological table of the statutes on which the readings were delivered, and an alphabetical table of reporters and collectors of cases. Bibliography A bibliography in two volumes with very detailed information on each manuscript indicating its physical condition and size, the contents, brief textual notes, comments regarding the original manuscripts, quality, and complete indices. Entries in the catalogue are keyed to the appropriate microfiches. J.H.BAKER = J.H. Baker. English Legal Manuscripts VOL1 = Volume 1: Catalogue of the Manuscript Year Books, Readings, and Law Reportsin the Library of the Harvard Law School. Zug, 1975. X, 105 pp. (13 plates).Clothbound. ISBN 3 85750 009 3.(Covers Stage I) VOL2 = Volume 2: Catalogue of the Manuscript Year Books, Readings, and Law Reportsin Lincoln's Inn, the Bodleian Library, and Gray's Inn. Zug, 1978. X, 239 pp. (8 plates). Clothbound. ISBN 3 85750 024 7.(Covers Stages II-IV) Subscribers receive the external finding aids free with the microfiches. The collection Stage I: The Harvard Law School Section I : Year Books Section II : Reports of Cases 1500-1700 Sections III-IV : Reports of Cases after 1700 Section V : Readings and Moots in the Inns of Court 1643 microfiche Stage II: Lincoln's Inn Section I : Year Books Section II : Reports of Cases 1500-1700 Section III : Reports of Cases after 1700 Section IV : Readings and Moots in the Inns of Court 2903 microfiche Stages III - IV: Bodleian and Gray's Inn Section I : Year Books Section II : Reports of Cases 1500-1700 Section III : Reports of Cases after 1700 Section IV : Readings and Moots in the Inns of Court 574 microfiche Stage V: Yale Law School Section I : Year Books Sections II-III : Reports of Cases Section IV : Readings and Moots in the Inns of Court 375 microfiche Stage VI: The Harvard Law School Addenda Section I : Reports of Cases Section II : Reports of Cases, from the Powys collection Section III : Readings and Moots Section IV : Readings and Moots, from the Powys collection Section V : Notebooks of Lord Ellenborough 567 microfiche Stage VII: The Cambridge University Library *Recently fil- med* Section I : Year Books Section II : Reports of Cases 1500-1700 Sections III-IV : Reports of Cases after 1700 Section V : Readings and Moots in the Inns of Court 1185 microfiche |
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