Newberry Library, VAULT folio Case MS 32.1

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DS ID:

DS17999

Shelfmark:

VAULT folio Case MS 32.1

Title:

Modus tenendi parliamentum; Tractatus de senescalcia anglie

Text on government

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1495?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 6 leaves : parchment ; 345 x 240 (230 x 170) mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Formerly part of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 10.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 16 (unbound).
Layout: Written in 40 long lines; ruled in hard point.
Script: Written in legal cursiva anglicana formata, showing infusion of secretary traits; headings in gothic textualis quadrata formata.
Decoration: Three illuminated gold initials 4 lines high decorated with white floral patterns on grounds of red-brown and blue; alternating red and blue paragraph marks; partial floral marginal decoration in green, blue, red-brown, and gold.
Origin: Written in England in the 15th century, certainly before 1495, date of the last statute added to Hatton 10, fol. 1r, has inscription "Modus tenendi parliamenti" in hand of approximately 1500, recopied on the same folio in a 17th century hand.
Related shelfmark: Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Hatton 10.

Keyword:

cursive scripts

textura (Gothic script)

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

England. Parliament

Parliamentary practice

England

Early works

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

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IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBT5Y4

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library