Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 30

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17988

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 30

Title:

English statutes

Magna Carta

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1350?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin with some French

Latin WIKIDATA

French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 138 leaves : parchment ; trimmed to 90 x 65 (68 x 50) mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 138 ; 1-1012 1112(-11-12) 1210(-9-10) ; quires numbered 1-12 in arabic numerals on upper left corner of the first leaf.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines; ruled in crayon, double boundary lines; prickings in outer margins of some folios.
Script: Written in cursiva anglicana media; running marginal headings added by a later hand, partially trimmed.
Decoration: fol. 1r: flourished initial extends into a full border; blue initials with red flourishes at the beginning of each statute; alternating red and blue paragraph marks throughout.
Origin: Written in England, certainly after 1297, date of the confirmation of Magna Carta by Edward I, probably in the early 14th century, possibly for a lawyer as a pocket reference copy.
Signature, 15th century, fol. 118v: Thomas Bruere.
Unidentified armorial bookplate, partially removed.
Armorial bookplate of John Towneley (1740-1813).
Former shelfmark? "Dfm No. 1" in black ink with "1684" in purple pencil circled in black pencil, old price "£5.50" and note "circa 1400."

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

manuscripts (documents)

Statutes and codes

Morocco bindings

Forestry law and legislation

England

Early works

Statutes

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma995246308805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBTFWQ

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library