Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 14

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DS ID:

DS4357

Shelfmark:

LC 14 14

Title:

Statuta vetera (Old statutes)

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Anglo-Norman; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+127+iii; 250 x 177 mm bound to 266 x 184 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

John Willis

John Willis WIKIDATA

Holmes, Thomas, active 17th century-18th century

Thomas Holmes WIKIDATA

Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, approximately 1697-1764

George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield WIKIDATA

John Peacock

John Peacock WIKIDATA

Bragge, William, 1823-1884

William Bragge WIKIDATA

Harkness, Edward Stephen, 1874-1940

Edward Harkness WIKIDATA

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

Hampton L. Carson WIKIDATA

Note:

Front cover with upper flyleaves detached; spine detached; back cover detached and final flyleaf loose
Binding: Nineteenth-century Russia binding with blind stamped border; stamped on spine: "MAGNA CHARTA AND STATUTES IX. HENRY III. TO HENRY VII".
Layout: One column of forty-one lines; lead point ruled; written area: 192 x 117 mm
Script: Gothic--anglicana
Decoration: One illuminated initial with partial bar border; numerous smaller colored initials with pen-work flourishes
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. 2017-2018, no. 13.
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), pp. 61-62, no. 173
Provenance: John Willis (eighteenth century?, his signature on fol. 90r); Thomas Holmes (eighteenth century, his signature on fol. 91r); George Parker, Earl of Macclesfield (eighteenth century, his signature on fol. 90r); William Bragge (nineteenth century, his sale at Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1876, lot 289); John Peacock (nineteenth century, his bookplate inside the front cover); sold at...

Keyword:

English (culture or style)

England

Law

Charters

damage (condition)

Fifteenth century

glosses (annotations)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lc_14_14.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lc_14_14/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia