Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 19

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4358

Shelfmark:

LC 14 19

Title:

Statuta vetera (Old Statutes)

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+170+i; 179 x 122 mm bound to 185 x 130 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

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

Hampton L. Carson WIKIDATA

Note:

Pasted in notes (flyleaf 1 recto) include collation of: a10 b8 c12 d6 e12 f10 g-u8 x2 - new collation reflects a change in f10 to f8 and in g-u8 to g-t8; Vellum of the binding has broken on the back of spine, in joints, and front cover
Binding: Late eighteenth-century tooled vellum binding. Two metal clasps. Stamped on spine: "INSPEXIMUS EDWARDI PRI[MUS] MAGNA CARTA ET ALLIS STATUTIBUS"
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead in one column of variable lines ranging from twenty-six to thirty-two lines, prickings visible; running headings throughout; written area: 145 x 89 mm
Script: Gothic--anglicana
Decoration: Illuminated initial (fol. 1r); red and blue initials decorated with pen flourishing and foliate designs throughout; paragraph marks in red and blue; marginalia and glossing throughout
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, no. 8.
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.63, no. 178.
Provenance: Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; Book plate of the Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson, pasted onto inside front cover. "M 1" written in ink and pasted onto inside front cover

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_19.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lc_14_19/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia