The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 67911

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9640

Shelfmark:

mssHM 67911

Title:

Legal formulary, etc., in Latin, French and English

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1500 and 1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin, French and English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 177 : parchment ; 95 x 180 mm

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Cursive script with secretary features.
Layout: Traces of quire numbers at the beginnings of quires 14, 16, 17 (ff. 132, 153, 161); f. ii belongs probably between ff. 170 and 171; frame-ruled in plummet, written with approximately 37-41 long lines.
Span folios: ff. 1-177v.
Written in England, no earlier than 1497 (see ff. 127-128v, writ of that date), and perhaps before or not long after ca. 1502 (the earliest dated addition, see ff. 71v-72, added indenture dated 1502; and, added after 1506, an inquisition of that date on ff. 166v-168v); perhaps in East Anglia to judge by the section on Colchester (ff. 74-81v), the large number of documents referring to places...
Assigned Date: s. XVIin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009.
Inscribed with a variety of names and pen-trials, s. XVI to s. XVIII: "Capell" (f. 170v); "John", "William", "James Parker", and with phrases in French and English, and "Antonius Somers iii [in?] propria" (f. 172v); "margarita", "Drémare", "William" (f. 173); "John Lambe", "antonius" (f. 174); "Wildersh" (f. 174), "William", "Thomas", "Billingsley" (f. 175v), "Roger Addams" (f. 177). With the...

Keyword:

Legal formularies

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861865

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53304/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens