Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 10

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DS ID:

DS4354

Shelfmark:

LC 14 10

Title:

Statuta nova (New Statutes)

Place:

England

England TGN

Language:

Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+392+ii (accounting for one unnumbered folio); 305 x 200 mm bound to 322 x 210 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Butler, Charles

Charles Butler WIKIDATA

Sessler, Charles

Charles Sessler WIKIDATA

Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence), 1852-1929

Hampton L. Carson WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Late fifteenth-century, original wood boards; blind stamp decoration of pelicans and the arms of Cologne; rebacked; stamped in gold on spine: "STATVTA HEN. III -- HEN. VII MS. IN MEMBRANES;" metal clasps are attached to back cover
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead point in one column of forty-two lines; prickings extant; fols. 371v to 391v are ruled but left blank; written area: 215 x 120 mm
Script: Gothic--anglicana
Decoration: Illuminated initial (fol. 1r) and four illuminated initials with full borders; pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue
Provenance: Charles Butler (1912); his sale, S. 17 March 1912, no. 2694, to Leighton; Charles Maggs, London (bookseller); Charles Sessler, Philadelphia (bookseller); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929

Keyword:

English (culture or style)

England

Law

Charters

illuminations (paintings)

History

Fifteenth century

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lc_14_10.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lc_14_10/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia