[Notebook].
Published: 1840
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Law, Anglo-Saxon -- Terminology.; English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Terms and phrases.; Law, Anglo-Saxon.; Anglo-Saxons.; Manuscripts, English -- Washington (D.C.); Great Britain -- History -- Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066.
Notes: Baker, J.H.  English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., II, 338 ("Law MS. 13")
Ms. (holograph?)
On prelim. p. 1: Note book of J.M. Kemble's, the Anglo Saxon scholar.
Notes pertaining to linguistics or to early legal terminology in England; arranged under ca. 65 headings listed in "Index of matters," p. [178-179].
Text begins: Examples of the use of -ing for -es, or generally the genitive singular--in the names of places ...
The notes include numerous quotations in Anglo-Saxon.
Written all in one hand, taken to be that of the author; no doubt in England.
Accessioned in LC June 23, 1945 (LL 5977D1).
Several intermediate pages are blank. Prelim. p. [1] and the last page are respectively verso and recto of leaves pasted to marbled free endpapers.