(Q20568)

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Old French (842-ca. 1400)
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Extent: vi+127+ii; 272 x 186 mm bound to 285 x 197 mm; parchment
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Spine has become detached
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Although the text is labeled Bracton and the spine of the book claims that it is Bracton's De legibus Angliae, the text is in fact the Britton
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Binding: Mid-19th-century russia leather binding, spine with blind-tooled decoration and stamped in gold: "BRACTON DE LEGIBUS ANGLIAE"; Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves
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Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of forty-five lines, prickings visible; contemporary book numbering, upper center margin recto and verso; written area: 210 x 140 mm
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Script: Gothic--anglicana
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Decoration: Red and blue pen-flourished initials throughout; paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrication throughout; some marginalia
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2016, no. 5.
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Related resource: John Hamilton Baker, English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America: A Descriptive List, part I, Medieval and Renaissance Period (to 1558) (London: Seldon Society, 1985), p.61, no. 172.
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Provenance: Sir Gregory Osborn Page Turner (d. 1843) of Battlesdon House, Beds; Sir Thomas Phillipps; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London (1909); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; Bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson, pasted onto inside of front cover; typed description of manuscript pasted onto inside of front...
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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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