Old Tenures, Natura brevium and Subject index to the statutes, Accusacions to Wurstede (DS9830) (Q43494)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620619, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862061, mssHM 47619)
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Old Tenures, Natura brevium and Subject index to the statutes, Accusacions to Wurstede (DS9830)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620619, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862061, mssHM 47619)

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    Old Tenures, Natura brevium and Subject index to the statutes, Accusacions to Wurstede
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    Writs--England--15th century
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    Land tenure--Law and legislation--England--Early works to 1800
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    Writs--England--Early works to 1800
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    French (Middle French) and Latin
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    between 1440 and 1460
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    Extent: ff. i + iv + 117 + iii + i : parchment ; 160 x 214 mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Manuscript contains several works including a Calendar, the Old tenures, Natura brevium and the subject index to the statutes, Accusacions to Wurstede. Written in England during the middle years of the fifteenth century. The latest date in the text is 23 Henry VI, i.e. 1444-45 (on, e.g., ff. 74v, 84v, 86); the calendar does not include Osmund, canonized in 1456. The manuscript may have been...
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    Span folios: ff. 1-117v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 28(-1; through f. 13) 3-158. 34 long lines, ruled in lead with top and bottom 2 lines full across; additional set of narrow double rules in the outer margin of ff. 7-69v for nota bene marks; additional vertical rule 2/3 across page for column of statutes cited on ff. 70-117v. Calendar ruled in ink; slash prick marks visible in this...
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    Decoration: Opening initials, ff. 1, 14 and 70 in 3- and 2-line gold on white-patterned blue and maroon grounds with black ink sprays terminating in green and gold leaves or in pink and blue leaves; 3-line blue initials with red flourishing; in the calendar, 2-line initials alternating in blue with red flourishing and in gold with blue; alternating red and blue paragraph marks. Calligraphic...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
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    On f. ii verso, twice, the name of Thomas Byrley; on the third back flyleaf, "Ihesu mercy/ of Byrley constat/ Lady helpe/ [...?]" and "Ihesu haue mercy on me so al men." A Thomas Byrley was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1501 (see Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, Admissions (1896) 1:29 and The Black Books (1897) 1:122). The same man apparently owned a statute book now in...
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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