University of Pennsylvania, LJS 61

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS745

Shelfmark:

LJS 61

Title:

Register of writs.

Author:

England. Sovereign (1377-1399 : Richard II)

Richard II of England WIKIDATA

Place:

London, ca. 1407, 1427

London TGN

Date:

1407-1427

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, Middle French, and some words in Middle English (f. 214v)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 231 leaves : parchment ; 256 x 174 (210 x 131) mm bound to 272 x 190 mm

Former Owner(s):

Nevill, Robert, 1404-1457

Robert Neville WIKIDATA

Babthorpe, William

William Babthorpe WIKIDATA

Fowle, Nicolas

Nicolas Fowle WIKIDATA

Thomson, Thomas

Thomas Thomson WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Clarke, Adam, approximately 1762-1832

Adam Clarke WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in London, ca. 1407 (date of latest writ of Henry IV), with menus ca. 1427, when Robert Nevill was made Bishop of Salisbury.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Decoration: Spaces left for initials at beginnings of sections (f. 1r, 97r, 152r); occasional manicules (for example, f. 9r, 126v); small drawing of crown (f. 161r).
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.
Layout: Written in 37-48 long lines; vertical bounding-lines ruled in faint ink.
Foliation: Parchment, 231 + i (paper); [i-xvi, 1-4], 5- 27, [i], 28-30, 30-75, 78-151, 151-214; near-contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto. Contemporary foliation in ink in the upper center margin that starts over again (f. 152) suggests that this manuscript was originally divided into 2 volumes. Modern pagination in pencil, somewhat irregular, lower right recto. References in...
Binding: Late 15th-century calf over wooden boards with remains of 2 metal clasps but no catches; blind-tooled.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 1 May 1903, lot 957, and at Christie's, 26 June 1996, lot 16.
Sold by Sam Fogg (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
Offered but not sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 32.
Sold by Baynes and Co. to Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 10349, f. i recto).
Possibly first owned by Robert Nevill, Bishop of Salisbury, or William Babthorpe; later owned by Nicolas Fowle (15th-century, effaced inscriptions, f. 151v, 214v), Thomas Thomson (late 15th-/early 16th-century inscriptions, f. 151v, 214r), and Adam Clarke (probably his spine label LXXXVIII).
Probably sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Clarke library, 21 May 1838.

Keyword:

menus

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

judicial records

Manuscripts, Medieval

writs

Courts

Writs

England

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949523793503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3g737450/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania