Henrici De Bracton De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae Of An Action Of Entry Book Iv Treatise Vii Of A Writ Of Right Book V Treatise I Of Essoins Book V Treatise Ii Of Defaults Book V Treatise Iii

Author : Henry De Bracton
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230340968
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Bracton de Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae written by Henry De Bracton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ADDICIONES In one place or another not a little has already been said about the additional passages, or addicianes, which make up a noticeably large portion of the printed text of Bracton. Something more must yet be said, for the subject is very important. The determination of just what passages are addiciones, and more particularly additional passages not written by Bracton himself, is one of the hardest problems connected with the re-editing of the treatise.1 There is too much matter in the traditional text of Bracton. A very casual examination of the manuscript material shows that. In the preface to the first edition, the unknown editor who signs himself "T. N." makes a number of statements which indicate that, to a certain extent at least, he was cognizant of the corrupt texts of the manuscripts, of a variety of readings in the different exemplars which he had looked over, and of interpolations in some of them. From his words we might reasonably expect to find that he had remedied some of the worst features of the manuscript texts about which he was complaining. But though he claims to have used twelve manuscripts, only about forty variants are noted for the whole four hundred and forty-four folios of text. He seems to have made no effort at all to get rid of interpolations, and passes over without comment even those addiciones which some among his twelve manuscripts must have marked out for him. It is not necessary to consider how many of the extant manuscripts he may have made use of. That he either selected different codices as the basis of his text in different parts of the treatise, or happened to use a single manuscript derived from an exemplar, or exemplars, embodying different traditions, is made clear by a study of the...