The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 923

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9819

Shelfmark:

mssHM 923

Title:

Statutes

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1200 and 1350

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + i + + 217 + ii : parchment.

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: 1-38 44 5-98 104(through f. 72) 1112 12-228 2312 24-258 264(through f. 204) 272 2810(-9; +2 leaves at the end). Catchwords in inner lower margin. Usually 28-32 long lines, ruled in lead, with double vertical bounding lines for the written space, and with additional sets of double rules in the 3 outer margins; slash prick marks in the 3 outer margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-217v.
Other Decoration: 6- to 4-line parted red and blue initials infilled with grotesques in void technique on ff. 1, 133, 149; the initial on f. 1 also with red and blue cascade border, the others with red and blue flourishing; 6- to 2-line parted red and blue initials with infilling of leaf designs; 4- to 2-line alternating red initials with blue flourishing or blue with red.
Assigned Date: s. XIV2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/23/2012.
Numerous references in the text to Scarborough point to early ownership in that town. On f. iii, pentrials, s. XV, including "dymnok" and "kalwater." On f. 215v, s. XV, "Iohannes Vear miles de Comitatu Essex," "Iohannes Veer," and "Omnibus christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum pervenerit Iohannes Vear Armiger salutem in domino sempiternam"; notes in Vear's hand also on ff. 81, 94...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Law

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862050

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50704/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens