The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 81170

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9603

Shelfmark:

mssHM 81170

Title:

Register Brevium

Author:

Nix, Richard, Bishop of Norwich, approximately 1447-1535

Richard Nykke WIKIDATA

Place:

London

London TGN

Date:

approximately 1460, and later additions in early 16th c.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, Anglo Norman, and Middle English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: XXXIV], 410 [i.e. 378] leaves : parchment ; 268 x 180 (165 x 103) mm

Former Owner(s):

Nix, Richard, Bishop of Norwich, approximately 1447-1535

Richard Nykke WIKIDATA

Law Society (Great Britain)

Law Society WIKIDATA

Note:

Parchment, i (paper) + [XXXIV] + 410 (foliated 140, 142-287, 289-359, 400-410 ) + i (paper). Layout: Quires 1-46 of 8 leaves; quire 47 of 6 leaves; quire 48 of 8 leaves; quire 49 of 6 leaves; + 12 leaves (= 1 quire of 8 leaves, and 1 of 4) inserted after quire 49's leaf 5 (ff. 358, 359, 400-409); the 37 original quires are numbered as "37 quaterni" on ff. ii and 410v. Contemporary foliation in...
Written in England, probably London, in the last quarter of the 15th century, with additions in the early sixteenth century, in an Anglicana script by a number of scribes.
2- to 3-line initials in blue, some with ornate red penwork (on leaves 6r, 7r, 7v, 9r, 15v, 16v, 19v, 41r), mainly in the first third of the text; spaces left for other initials; paragraph marks in red and blue mainly in first half of book; simple line fillers of red penstrokes; some capitals touched in red and opening words underlined in red.
Manuscript was owned by Richard Nix (or Nykke, approximately 1447-1535), the last Catholic Bishop of Norwich: contemporary inscriptions on verso of f. 410, "Liber Ric[ard]i Nykke ep[iscop]i Norwicen[sis]" and along vertical edge between clasps on backboard, "Lib[er] Nyke Norwych". Inscription on verso of last flyleaf: M[emorandu]m that the C[harter] of the confirmacion of the Collegge of...

Keyword:

writs

judicial records

Courts

Law

Writs

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1832878

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:56992/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens