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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1920
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Clymer, Daniel Cunyngham, 1748-1810., compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Lawyers.
- Legal documents--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800.
- Legal documents.
- Legal instruments--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800.
- Legal instruments.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- reference books
- Manuscripts, American -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Meyer Boswell Books (San Francisco, California), 2017.
- Physical Description:
- 187 leaves : paper ; 198 x 160 mm bound to 205 x 170 mm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia], 1767-1770.
- Biography/History:
- Princeton University graduate, 1766; lawyer; officer of the Philadelphia Military Associators, 5th Rifle Battalion, 1776, a deputy commissary general of prisoners in the Continental Army, 1777-1781; after 1781 a lawyer in Reading, Berks County.
- Summary:
- Compilation of legal forms, writs, and decisions, most frequently originating in Philadelphia, but with other counties in Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Lancaster), New Jersey (Hunterdon), and Maryland (Talbot) represented, collected by Philadelphia lawyer Daniel Cunyngham Clymer (signature, p. i). Areas of law involved include admiralty, property, and criminal law. A subject index, with the subjects in alphabetical order and entries related to those subjects listed under them in page order, is at the end of the volume (p. 359-369).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from ink title on upper cover.
- Pagination: Paper, 187 leaves; [i-ii], 1-253, 253-273, [275-356 (blank), 357-372]; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
- Layout: Headings for each entry in left margin.
- Script: Written in cursive script, probably in the hand of Daniel Cunyngham Clymers.
- Decoration: A small number of manicules (p. 164, 166).
- Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) calf; boards detached and some leaves loose and detached; remnants of bands at head and tail of spine dangling; title in ink on upper cover, Book of entries, August 30th 1767.
- Origin: Probably written in Philadelphia, from 1767 August 30 (date on upper cover) to 1770 (p. 272), with a later additions in 1772 (inside front cover), 1786 (p. 273), and 1791 (p. 357).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dhiren H. Shah W'82 and Katherine M. Shah Fund.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1920.
- OCLC:
- 1034656620
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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