Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 13

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4356

Shelfmark:

LC 14 13

Title:

Britton

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1300-1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

Old French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: vi+127+ii; 272 x 186 mm bound to 285 x 197 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Page-Turner, Gregory Osborne, Sir, 1785-1843

Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bt. WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Maggs Bros.

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

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

Hampton L. Carson WIKIDATA

Note:

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...

Keyword:

English (culture or style)

England

Law

Charters

History

Marginalia

treatises

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lc_14_13.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lc_14_13/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia