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Total number of records: 119

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture38
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Gayot De Pitaval, Francois (1673-1743)19
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منحة السلوك على تحفة الملوك. minḥatu-sulūk ʿala tuḥfat almulūk

1187-1773

The volume discusses jurisprudence issues; marriage, divorce, women, robbery etcetera. Author: ابي محمد محمود ابن احمد العيني. ʾabī muḥammad maḥmūd ʾaḥmad alʿaī...

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كتاب الرحمة في اختلاف الآئمة kitabur-raḥmah fī-ẖtilāf il-ʾaʾimmah

1017-1609

The volume concerns Islamic law: crimes, witness, marriage, the will etcetera. Author: ابي عبدالله محمد بن زين الدين عبدالرحمن القرشي العثماني الشا...

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مجمع البحار maǧmaʿu-lbiḥār

819-1416

A poem discussing laws including prescribed penalties, crimes, marriage etcetera. Author: .حسام الدين. Ḥusāmu-dīn.

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A notable discovery of coosnage, 1591; The second part of Conny-catching, 1592

Greene, Robert (1558-1592); Harrison, G B (1894-1991)

[1923]

With facsimile reproductions of original title: (1) A Notable Discouery of Coosnage. Now daily practised by sundry lewd persons, called Connie-catchers, and Crosse-biters... By R. Greene, Maister of A...

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The scourge of villanie, 1599

Marston, John (1575?-1634); Harrison, G B (1894-1991)

[1925]

A reprint of the 2d edition, from a copy in the Bodleian library. Ordered to be burned in 1599. In verse. Introduction signed: G. B. Harrison.

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The blacke bookes messenger, 1592

Greene, Robert (1558-1592); Conny-catcher, Cuthbert pseud

[1924]

Facsimile reprint. Originally published, London: Iohn Danter, 1592, and London: A.I., 1592. "This reprint first published in 1924."

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The seven deadly sinnes of London

Dekker, Thomas (1572-1632)

1905

"Of this edition...250 copies have been printed."

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Thoughts on the increase of crimes, the education of the poor, and the national schools : in a letter to Sir J. MacKintosh

Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850); Mackintosh, Sir James (1765-1832)

[1815]

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Grain or chaff? : the autobiography of a police magistrate

Plowden, Alfred Chichele (1844-1914)

1903

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