The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 69443

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9641

Shelfmark:

mssHM 69443

Title:

Nova statuta, 1-50 Edward III and 1-12 Richard II

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1385 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and some English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 329 : parchment ; 90 x 125 mm

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Cursive script with secretary features; anglicana.
Layout: Quire signatures in lower-case roman numerals, except in the final four quires which are by the second scribe: the first five quires have them on their first recto, thereafter the signatures are on the final verso; catchword in quire 26 (f. 207); leaf signatures in red ink in quire 36 (ff. 280-284). Frame-ruled in plummet, typically written with 21 long lines, the last four quires...
Span folios: ff. 1-329v.
Other Decoration: One five-line blue initial with red penwork infill and marginal flourishing (f. 18); other statutes with 3-line initials in red or blue, headings with 1-line initials in red or blue; paraphs in red or blue.
Written in England ca. 1386-1400: the original list of contents ends with the last statute of 6 Richard II [1382/3]; in the main text the use of marginal chapter numbers (added in a lighter ink), quire numbers, and color all end with 9 Richard II [1386], suggesting that everything that follows was added somewhat later. The final fourteen text leaves, containing part of 11 and 12 Richard II...
Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/6/2009.
Revd. Lewis Stephens, D.D. (1654-1725), vicar of Menheniot, Cornwall (on whom see Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, and Emden, Alumni Oxonienses). Francis Gregor (b. 1686?), translator of the De laudis legum Angliae (1737, 1741, etc.); inscribed "Donum Reverendissimi / Ludovici Stephens / Sanctae Theologiæ Professor / Francis Gregor" (f. iii); two other legal MSS given to Gregor by Stephens are...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Statutes

Law

Law reports, digests, etc.

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861866

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53326/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens