An essay, stated to be by Thorstein Magnusson, on capital punishment when the evidence of crime is only circumstantial, written in the 18th cent. (?)

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MS. Boreal 25

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Also a short essay (fol. 22v) on oaths in matters of probability.

A MS. which had not in 1832 been printed.

Dates

26 Leaves

MS. Boreal 25

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no 20666

A catalogue by Magnusen, dated 1828, is in the Library, and was printed in 1832 with the title 'Catalogus...codicum cliii manuscriptorum Borealium præcipuæ Islandicæ originis, ...autcore... Finno Magnæo, Islando'.

On paper

8 3/8 × 6 5/8 in.

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