STATHAM CONTENTS
An abridgement of Year Book cases through the reign of Henry VI (last date
1461) is traditionally attributed to Nicholas Statham, a lawyer of the
midfifteenth century about whom little is known.1 There are a number of manuscript
versions of the work, no two of which seem to be quite alike. Research in
these manuscripts is ongoing. A version of the work was published in 1490 by
the English printer Richard Pynson, although it seems that the printing was
actually done in Rouen
by Guillaume Le Talleur. One of the Harvard Law
1 He died in 1472, and he probably died young. See J. H. Baker, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography s.n. (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26321, last visited, 25 Aug 2009). The signatures (except for the table of contents) were marked in the printed edition. The printed edition, however, contains no foliation, and the abridgement entries were not numbered. Many owners of the book, including one of the ones who owned ours, introduced foliation and/or entry numbers, more or less completely as the spirit moved them. The 1915 translation by Margaret Center Klingelsmith introduced (albeit imperfectly) foliation (1a, 1b, etc., in the old lawyers form). Klingelsmith also numbered the entries under each title, omitting numbers for paragraphs that only crossreferenced other entries. Entries that continue over more than one page are numbered on the page on which they begin. These folio and entry numbers have become standard, and we have used them here. We have normalized the spelling of the names of titles somewhat: we have changed, as appropriate, is to js, us to vs, zs to ss, nns to uns or ns, added a couple of apostrophes, and omitted some terminal es when unnecessary and indicated only by a line above the previous letter. The copy that we have photographed has some unique features. Many of the pages contain manuscript notes in what seems to be a sixteenthcentury hand. Two folios have been tipped in between fol. 7 and fol. 8. Additional entries for Aide have been handwritten on the first page; the remainder are blank. Notes as to former owners that are scattered about the book may be found at HOLLIS no. 000612249. Notes on all four of the Harvard Law School Library's copies may be found on the Availability page of that record. The author of this metadata is Professor David Seipp of the Boston University School of Law, a director of the Ames Foundation and the principal compiler of the Foundations massive index of the Year Books. |
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