Registrum brevium, in Latin and French (DS9637) (Q42915)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618613, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861861, mssHM 62471)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Registrum brevium, in Latin and French (DS9637) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618613, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861861, mssHM 62471) |
Statements
between 1425 and 1450
15. century
1425Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: ff. ii + 228 + ii : parchment ; 175 x 245 mm
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Title from printed catalog
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Cursive gothic script.
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Layout: 41 long lines, separated from a running heading by a blank line, and with individual heading for each writ and rule in an outer column; ruling in plummet.
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Span folios: ff. 1-228v.
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Other Decoration: One eight-line initial in blue with white modeling, on a gold ground, with infill and a three-sided border of conventional foliage in reds, blues, and orange, with green leaves; 3-line initials marking the remaining sections in gold on a ground of blue and reddish, with white tracery; paraph marks throughout (except in the added texts) alternately blue or red.
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Written no earlier than 1430 (cf. writ on f. 7), and perhaps not long after, as the statute dated 1430 is a slightly later addition (f. 149v; this and a few other additions were made in spaces left for the purpose; they appear contemporary, but lack the colored paraphs found throughout the rest of the volume).
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Assigned Date: s. XV2/4.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009.
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Breslauer, Catalogue 71 (1950), item 70, with his typescript description of the manuscript loosely inserted (f. i). William Richard Foyle (1885-1963), co-founder of Foyles Bookshop, London; inscribed with his(?) price-code "TUO/-/-" (back pastedown, upper left), and with his gilt leather armorial bookplate "EX. LIBRIS / .W.A.FOYLE. / BEELEIGH / .ABBEY." (his home from 1943); by descent to his...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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