Boston Public Library, MS q Med.290

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3561

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.290

Title:

Charter granting land in the village of Bentley, Suffolk, England, from Hugh Talemache to Richard de Coppedoc : in Latin].

Author:

Talemache, Hugh, active 13th century

Hugh Talemache WIKIDATA

Place:

England]

England TGN

Date:

ca. 1250?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 sheet : parchment ; 210 x 117 mm

Former Owner(s):

Walter R. Benjamin Autographs, Inc

Walter Romeyn Benjamin WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. document.
Title devised by cataloger; date conjectured by cataloger based on genealogical information found in W.A. Copinger's The Manors of Suffolk, vol.6 (Privately printed, 1910)
Layout: Single column, 17 lines. Slit for seal tag.
Script: Written in a protogothic documentary script, with straight r descending below the baseline, mostly straight s, and uncial d.
Origin: Copied in Suffolk, England, ca. 1250.
Provenance: With an unidentified red ink stamp in lower right corner. Offered by Walter R. Benjamin, Inc., in 1978 (The Collector, no. 857, L-193) to John and Raquel Russell.
Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of John and Raquel Russell of New York, New York, in April, 2023.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Ink stamps

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8526045

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library