An Exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the lawes of this Realme : Newly amended and augmented, both in French and English, for the helpe of such young Students as are desirous to attaine to the knowlege of the same
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Title: An Exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the lawes of this Realme : Newly amended and augmented, both in French and English, for the helpe of such young Students as are desirous to attaine to the knowlege of the same
Other titles: Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum
Classmark: Strong Room Engl. 8vo 1615/RAS
Creator(s): Rastell, John (1475?-1536)
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1615
Language: English
Size and medium: [6] p., 196 numbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270219
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017896549705181
Description
Originally composed in French, l527, with a Latin title "Expositiones terminorũ legum anglorũ." The authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell. cf. Ames, Typographical antiquities; Dict. nat. biog.; Marvin Legal bibliography; Brit. mus. catalogue; etc.
Signatures: A-Z⁸ Aa-Bb⁸.
Irregularities in paging.
English and French in parallel columns.
At foot of t. p. : Cum priulegio.
Additional description
Title and preliminary leaves mutilated: ff.61, 68, 109-116 wanting in place of which are inserted blank leaves with some text in MSS
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