Grand coutumier and Decisions of the Norman Exchequer (DS9938) (Q43818)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621703, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862170, mssHM 1343)
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Grand coutumier and Decisions of the Norman Exchequer (DS9938)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621703, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862170, mssHM 1343)

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    Grand coutumier and Decisions of the Norman Exchequer
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    Customary law--France--Normandy--Early works to 1800
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    Finance, Public--France--Normandy--Early works to 1800
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    Latin, with final text in French
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    between 1300 and 1350
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    Extent: ff. 102 : parchment ; 160 x 220 mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Texts of the Grand coutumier in Latin and Decisions of the Norman Exchequer written in France in the first half of the fourteenth century.
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    Span folios: ff. 1-102v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-128 136. Catchwords in lower right corner, enclosed in frames, usually retraced in red; quires and leaves signed in red with letters of the alphabet and roman numerals; an arabic "2" marks the beginning of the second half of the quire. 2 columns of 27 lines, ruled in lead with single bounding lines, and all horizontal lines full across...
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    Decoration: Space reserved, f. 1, ca. 90 x 120 mm., presumably for a miniature. Opening initial, f. 1, 5-line, parted blue and pale green with red leaf filigree as infilling; secondary initials, 2-line, alternating red with purple penwork or blue with red. On ff. 19v-20, tables of consanguinity. Red rubrics and paragraph marks throughout. Guide letters and rubrics in black ink in a noting hand...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/2/2012.
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    Belonged to Edward Herbert, first Baron Herbert of Cherbury, whose calligraphic monogram, "E" superimposed on an "H," appears on f. 1, along with the indication of price. His manuscripts were left to his grandson, Edward, the third Baron; later they belonged to George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (1862-1952); his sale, Sotheby's, 20 March 1923, n. 199 to A. S. W. Rosenbach.
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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