(Q20589)
Statements
Sir Richard Sakevylle
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St. Audries, Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Baron, 1853-1917
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Frost, H. Harvey
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Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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H.P. Kraus (Firm)
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Extent: iv+274+i; 365 x 260 mm bound to 374 x 268 mm; parchment
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Inscriptions on the verso of second flyleaf and on 273v in a 15th-century hand; two illuminators: first artist painted the court scenes on fols.46r (Edward III), 104v (Richard II), 167r (Henry V), 182r (Henry VI), and 245r (Edward IV) ; second artist painted the scene on fol. 147r (Henry IV)
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This is one of nine copies of the Nova statuta of England written by the same scribe and that follow the same decorative scheme (although using as many as ten different artists); others in this group include: Bodleian Hatton 10; Holkham Hall 232; Harvard University, Houghton Library Richardson 40; B.L. Hargrave MS 274; and Yale University, Law Library, G. St. 11.1
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Binding: English pigskin, blind-stamped, late nineteenth century; Stamped in spine in gold: "Modus ienendi Parliamenium/Tractatus di Senescallo Anglia/Abreggement des Estatuts/Les Estatuts in Françoys Edw. iii—7 & 8 Edw. iv"
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Layout: One column of forty-six lines, lead point ruling; prickings are visible; two leaves before the foliated leaves are ruled but otherwise blank as are fols. 44v-45v, fols. 144v-146r, fol. 232v, fols. 262v-274v; written area: 240 x 162 mm
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Script: Gothic--anglicana
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Decoration: Six historiated initials with full borders, five-line decorated and illuminated initials with foliate sprays throughout; red and blue paragraph marks throughout
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Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 449-50, no. 9.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 29 with illustration on facing page.
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Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 226-228, no. 79.
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Related resource: M. V. Clark, Medieval Representation and Consent: A Study of Early Parliaments in England and Ireland, with Special Reference to the "Modus tenedi Parliamentum" (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936), p. 368.
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Related resource: A. C. de la Mare and B. C. Barker-Benfield, eds., Manuscripts at Oxford: An Exhibition in Memory of Richard William Hunt (1908-1979), Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1945-1975 (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1980), no. XXIII.5.
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Related resource: Kathleen L. Scott, "Introduction," in The Mirroure of the Worlde, MS Bodley 283 (England c. 1470-1480): The Physical Composition, Decoration and Illustration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 46, 59, fig. 3.
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Related resource: Baker, John Hamilton, English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America: A Descriptive List, part I, Medieval and Renaissance Period (to 1558) (London: Seldon Society, 1985), pp. 59-60, no. 168 and cover illus.
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Related resource: David Anderson, ed., Catalogue of the Exhibition of Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works, and Their Influence (Knoxville, Tenn.: The New Chaucer Society, University of Tennessee, 1986), pp. 90-92, no. 48.
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Related resource: Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6 vols. (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), vol. 2, pp. 344-46, no. 131; vol. I, ills. 475, 476.
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Provenance: Coat of arms of Molyneux of Sefton, Nottinghamshire, in borders (azure, a cross mokine or); Sir Richard Sakevylle, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, 1548; J. Palmer, 1730; Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, St. Audries, Co. Somerset; Bernard Quaritch (booksellers), London, 1931; H. Harvey Frost; H.P Kraus (booksellers), New York; The Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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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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