Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 20.5
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4359
- Shelfmark:
- LC 14 20.5
- Title:
- Statuta Angliae
- Place:
- England
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 184+ii; 83 x 50 mm bound to 83 x 52 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Levinson, Harry A.
- Note:
- Manuscript is bound in its original oak boards, which are attached to the text block with leather straps; four pegs have been inserted into the boards to hold straps in place; two holes near fore edge of the cover indicate where a clasp had once been affixed
Date is provided by notes accompanying the manuscript, which offer a date of circa 1299-1300 because the collection lacks the Statute of Lincoln passed in January 1301
First two quires almost detached
Binding: Original oak boards.
Layout: written area: 60 x 35 mm; 1 column of 24 lines, lead point ruling; 1 historiated initial with full border; decorated and illuminated initials and borders throughout; red and blue 1-line initials throughout. The first quire, which contains the calendar, is not paginated.
Script: Gothic--anglicana
Related resource: Don C. Skemer, "From Archives to the Book Trade: Private statute rolls in England, 1285-1307," Journal of the Society of Archivists 16 (1995), p. 204, n. 48.
Provenance: Purchased by the Free Library of Philadelphia from Harry A. Levinson in 1964 through the Simon Gratz fund; notations in pencil on inside back cover "Levinson 64" and "Gratz" - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lc_14_20_5.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lc_14_20_5/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
