(Q20562)

Statements

Statuta nova (New Statutes)
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Extent: ii+392+ii (accounting for one unnumbered folio); 305 x 200 mm bound to 322 x 210 mm; parchment
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Binding: Late fifteenth-century, original wood boards; blind stamp decoration of pelicans and the arms of Cologne; rebacked; stamped in gold on spine: "STATVTA HEN. III -- HEN. VII MS. IN MEMBRANES;" metal clasps are attached to back cover
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Layout: Frame-ruled in lead point in one column of forty-two lines; prickings extant; fols. 371v to 391v are ruled but left blank; written area: 215 x 120 mm
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Script: Gothic--anglicana
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Decoration: Illuminated initial (fol. 1r) and four illuminated initials with full borders; pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue
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Provenance: Charles Butler (1912); his sale, S. 17 March 1912, no. 2694, to Leighton; Charles Maggs, London (bookseller); Charles Sessler, Philadelphia (bookseller); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Erin Connelly
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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