The Fifteenth Century Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury, with Other Records, Edited by CHR. Wordsworth, M.A., Brown & Co., Salisbury, 1902, 386pp, cloth, 6 x 9", 8vo

Fair condition.  Wear to front and rear boards.  Tips are bumped.  Wear to spine with the beginning of a chip, but still legible.  Crest of St. Nicholas Hospital in gilt on front board.  Bookplate for Harlesden Public Library on front pastedown.  Marginalia on front pastedown and flyleaf.  Frontispiece opposite title page.  Stamp for Wiltshire Library & Museum Service on title page.  Toning and age-staining throughout textblock.  Includes 22 illustrations.  Please see photos.

The volume in this listing is a transcription of the Cartulary (a collection of charters, especially a book holding copies of the charters and title deeds of an estate) of St. Nicholas Hospital, a medieval hospital in Salisbury, England.  It contains valuable information about life in medieval England, including details about the daily lives of ordinary people as well as the dealings of the wealthy and powerful.  A scarcely available book of interest for historians of medieval England.