The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 906

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9818

Shelfmark:

mssHM 906

Title:

Statutes

Scribe:

Pynchebek

Pynchebek WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1350 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and some French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 164 + i : parchment ; 80 x 117 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Collection of statutes, and writs dating from the reigns of Edward I, II and III (1239-1377). A section on moot cases, in French, added in the 15th century.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 1-312 410(-10 after f. 45) 510 610(-10 after f. 64) 78 814 98(-1 after f. 86) 108 11-1212 138 1410 1518(-18 after f. 160) 166(-1, 2, 3; + contemporary flyleaf). Catchwords in the inner margin, still visible in quires 7, 11, 13, 14. 22-25 long lines, ruled in lead; slash prick marks at the 4 corners of the written space, and in the outer margin, most of the latter trimmed away.
Other Decoration: 3- and 2-line red initials; some spaces reserved; 1-line initials within the text filled in red; underscoring in red. Running headlines across the opening; sections of the statutes numbered in the margins in roman numerals; omitted passages inserted between the lines or written in the margins.
ff. 161v-163v: [added, s. XV] Five moot cases, in French, concerning wardship and land tenure, followed by a note on the number of knights, of churches, etc. in England, signed "quod Pynchebek."
Assigned Date: s. XIV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012.
On f. 164, s. XV, "Iste liber constat Iacobo Radcliffe __?___ Est de longley." W. H. Robinson, Cat. 12 (Newcastle 1925) n. 750.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Law

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862049

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51012/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens