The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 34 B 23
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9811
- Shelfmark:
- mssEL 34 B 23
- Title:
- Statutes and other legal writings
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1300 and 1315
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + i + 195 + i : parchment ; 129 x 189 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: 14(+5) 2-108 1112(through f. 89) 12-158 166(through f. 127) 17-238 2412. Catchwords placed between the double rule in the lower margin; none on quires 1, 11, 16, 24. 22-28 long lines; 23 long lines in art. 33. Ruled in lead with double rule across top and along the outer edge of the written space; additional double rules in the upper margin for running headlines (mostly cropped), along...
Span folios: ff. 1-195v.
Other Decoration: : 8- to 5-line spaces reserved for initials; opening initial on f. 128, 8-line, in blue with red flourishing; paragraph marks in red throughout. Running headlines in the hand of the scribe, mostly cropped.
On some leaves where original headline has been cropped, a fifteenth century hand has supplied the title. Finding notes in the register of writs in the hand of the scribe. Erased note in lower margin of f. 5.
Assigned Date: s. XIVin.
Former pressmark, EL 1122.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012.
Note on f. 195v, s. XV/ XVI, "liber iste Restat Ricardo Bunney" with what appears to be a monogram of initials "M" (or "W"?) and "L"(?). On f. iii: "Liber Tho. Egerton ex dono Thomae hyggons" inscribed by Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617); the two signatures "J Bridgewater" by the first and second Earls (1579-1649 and 1622-86, respectively); "E:2." by the first Earl, corrected to "E:2./10." by... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862042
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49315/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
