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Frederic William Maitland: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6987-7009

Scope and Contents

Printers sheets, lecture notes and notes on constitutional history and law.

Dates

  • Creation: 1884-1908

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

23 volume(s) (23 volumes)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Maitland's daughters, Mrs Shove and Miss E. Maitland, 1939.

Bibliography

The printer's sheets in MSS.Add.6987-6995 can be found in the following pages of F.W. Maitland's and Frederick Pollock's History of English law (Cambridge University Press, 1895): MS.Add.6987: vol. 1, pp. 41-204; chs 2-6 of Book I. MS.Add.6988: vol. 1, pp. 205-390; chs 1-2 of Book II. MS.Add.6989: vol. 1, pp. 390-511; ch. 2 of Book II. MS.Add.6990: vol. 1, pp. 512-672, ending abruptly at l. 31; ch. 3 of Book II; the remainder of vol. 1 is as in the printed version, but with pp. 672-678 missing in the MS. MS.Add.6991: vol. 2, pp. 1-181; ch. 4 of Book II. MS.Add.6992: vol. 2, pp. 182-361; chs. 5-6 of Book II. MS.Add.6993: vol. 2, pp. 362-445. MS.Add.6994: vol. 2, pp. 556-670, here bound in the MS out of sequence. MS.Add.6995: vol. 2, pp. 446-555. The printer's sheets in MSS.Add.6996-6997 relate to F.W. Maitland's The constitutional history of England (Cambridge University Press, 1908). For further information see the J.H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1996), pp. 606-611.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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