Legal Manuscripts

Collection Level Description: Microfiches of Legal Manuscripts

Reference: MSS. Fiche 48-120
Title: Microfiches of Legal Manuscripts
Dates of Creation: 20th cent.
Extent: 73 shelfmarks
Name of Creator: Bodleian Library, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn

Language of Material: English and Latin

Administrative/Biographical History

Bodleian Library, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.

Scope and Content

Microfiches of legal manuscripts held by the Bodleian Library, c.1300-1736, Gray's Inn, 1493-1739, and Lincoln's Inn, 1275-1834, consisting of:

Year books
Readings and moots
Reports

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The microfiches were bought by the Library in 1978.

Access Conditions

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

Existence/Location of Originals

The originals are located as follows:

MSS. Fiche 48-59 - Bodleian Library
MSS. Fiche 60-2 - Gray's Inn
MSS. Fiche 63-120 - Lincoln's Inn

Further Information

Finding Aids

A full description is available in the Library

The original manuscripts are described in J.H. Baker, English Legal Manuscripts, vol. II (Zug, 1978). A copy of this catalogue annotated with the Bodleian MSS. Fiche numbers is available in Duke Humphrey's Library.

Access Points

Legal documents

Bodleian Library | University of Oxford

Gray's Inn

Lincoln's Inn

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09 June 2011