Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae and several leaves of Statutes (DS9827) (Q43485)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620589, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862058, mssHM 31911)
- De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae
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| English | Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae and several leaves of Statutes (DS9827) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620589, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862058, mssHM 31911) |
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Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae and several leaves of Statutes
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De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae
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Bracton, Henry de, -1268
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Marginalia (annotations)--14th century
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Statutes--England--Early works to 1800
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between 1300 and 1315
14. century
1300Gregorian
1315Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i + ii + 267 + i : parchment ; 205 x 298 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Henry de Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae along with several leaves containing a number of Statutes written in England in the early fourteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-267v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 14 2-2212 2312(-12 with loss of text). Catchwords in inner lower margin. Leaf signatures, where visible, different in each quire, using horizontal or vertical slashes, letters or roman numerals written in lead, red ink or turquoise, and placed at various positions in the lower margin. 2 columns of 46 lines (3 columns of 51 lines in the...
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Decoration: 3- and 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; rubrics in red, not completed on ff. 228-234, 254v-263.
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Considerable marginalia in several contemporary and later hands. Narrow strips of parchment in the outer margins of ff. 74, 101, 190, 195 slashed free on 3 sides to be twisted into fore edge tabs, now torn away except on f. 190.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
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On f. 267v, 14th century ownership note, "P. bonar[...?]." According to the Sotheby catalogue description, the name "W. Mildmay" (perhaps Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer, d. 1589) was written on a detached flyleaf, no longer with the volume. Owned by George Bengough of Bristol in 1847; his notes on ff. ii-iv.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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