Spine has become detached Although the text is labeled Bracton and the spine of the book claims that it is Bracton's De legibus Angliae, the text is in fact the Britton Binding: Mid-19th-century russia leather binding, spine with blind-tooled decoration and stamped in gold: "BRACTON DE LEGIBUS ANGLIAE"; Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of forty-five lines, prickings visible; contemporary book numbering, upper center margin recto and verso; written area: 210 x 140 mm Script: Gothic--anglicana Decoration: Red and blue pen-flourished initials throughout; paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrication throughout; some marginalia Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2016, no. 5. Related resource: John Hamilton Baker, English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America: A Descriptive List, part I, Medieval and Renaissance Period (to 1558) (London: Seldon Society, 1985), p.61, no. 172. Provenance: Sir Gregory Osborn Page Turner (d. 1843) of Battlesdon House, Beds; Sir Thomas Phillipps; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London (1909); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; Bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson, pasted onto inside of front cover; typed description of manuscript pasted onto inside of front...
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