Harvard University, MS Richardson 40

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10753

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 40

Title:

Magna Carta; Nova statuta

Author:

England. Sovereign (1461-1470 : Edward IV)

Edward IV of England WIKIDATA

Date:

1468-1469.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and legal French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 3 v. (136, 149, 193 leaves) : vellum, ill. ; 32 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Young, Owen D., 1874-1962

Owen D. Young WIKIDATA

Dyer, James, Sir, 1510-1582

James Dyer WIKIDATA

Ravensworth, Arthur Thomas Liddell, Earl of, 1837-1919

Arthur Liddell, 5th Baron Ravensworth WIKIDATA

Little family

Note:

Written in several unidentified hands in a professional anglicana cursive script; 3 historiated initials, numerous foliate borders and decorated initials.
Written and illuminated in England, probably London.
Unidentified coat of arms (v. 3, f. 164r): azure a chevron ermine between 3 trefoils argent.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in 20th-cent. crimson velvet.
In a tray case, 36 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to Sir James Dyer, 1562 (inscription, f. 1r); the Liddell family of Ravensworth castle (bookplate); probably by descent to Arthur Thomas Liddell, 5th baron of Ravensworth; his sale (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1920, lot 357); Owen D. Young, by 1935; Richardson.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Great Britain

Magna Carta

Constitutional history

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098893390203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794201

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794202

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:422051157

Holding Institution:

Harvard University