Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 21

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4360

Shelfmark:

LC 14 21

Title:

Statuta vetera (Old Statutes)

Place:

England

England TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+167+iii; 85 x 48 mm bound to 92 x 55 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

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

Hampton L. Carson WIKIDATA

Note:

Front flyleaves are mostly detached
Binding: Late 19th century red morocco biding; gilt edges; stamped in gold on spine: "MAGNA CARTA MS SAEC. XIII."
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead point in one column of 26 lines; fols. 1r-4v, 13r-17v, and 152v-167v have been left blank; written area: 65 x 36 mm
Script: Gothic--anglicana
Decoration: One historiated initial; illuminated initials and borders throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue
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. 9.
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.60, no. 169.
Provenance: John Dewey (?); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; "John Dewey" written in pencil on fol. 155r in a late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century hand. Bookplate of the Philadelphia Free Library, gift of Hampton L. Carson pasted onto inside of front cover

Keyword:

English (culture or style)

England

Law

Charters

Historiated initials

illuminations (paintings)

History

treatises

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lc_14_21.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lc_14_21/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia