(Q42927)
Statements
Statutes--England--Early works to 1800
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Law reports, digests, etc.--England--Early works to 1800
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between 1385 and 1399
14. century
1385Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 329 : parchment ; 90 x 125 mm
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Title supplied from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Cursive script with secretary features; anglicana.
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Layout: Quire signatures in lower-case roman numerals, except in the final four quires which are by the second scribe: the first five quires have them on their first recto, thereafter the signatures are on the final verso; catchword in quire 26 (f. 207); leaf signatures in red ink in quire 36 (ff. 280-284). Frame-ruled in plummet, typically written with 21 long lines, the last four quires...
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Span folios: ff. 1-329v.
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Other Decoration: One five-line blue initial with red penwork infill and marginal flourishing (f. 18); other statutes with 3-line initials in red or blue, headings with 1-line initials in red or blue; paraphs in red or blue.
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Written in England ca. 1386-1400: the original list of contents ends with the last statute of 6 Richard II [1382/3]; in the main text the use of marginal chapter numbers (added in a lighter ink), quire numbers, and color all end with 9 Richard II [1386], suggesting that everything that follows was added somewhat later. The final fourteen text leaves, containing part of 11 and 12 Richard II...
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Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/6/2009.
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Revd. Lewis Stephens, D.D. (1654-1725), vicar of Menheniot, Cornwall (on whom see Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, and Emden, Alumni Oxonienses). Francis Gregor (b. 1686?), translator of the De laudis legum Angliae (1737, 1741, etc.); inscribed "Donum Reverendissimi / Ludovici Stephens / Sanctae Theologiæ Professor / Francis Gregor" (f. iii); two other legal MSS given to Gregor by Stephens are...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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