The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 930

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9820

Shelfmark:

mssHM 930

Title:

Statutes

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French and Latin

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + 196 + ii : parchment ; 220 x 313 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Contains statutes from the reign of Edward III (1327-1377) through Henry V (1413-1422)
Support: Parchment.
Script: Secretary; Anglicana; Bastard anglicana.
Layout: 18(-1) 212(-1) 312 4-68 78(-7, after f. 60) 88(-8, after f. 68 with loss of 3 lines of text, apparently due to eyeskip) 92 10-138 144(-4, after f. 105 without loss of text) 16-178 184 198(-1 after f. 132 with loss of text) 208 218(-4, after f. 150 with loss of text) 22-268 272. Catchwords in inner lower margin, 2 in brown ink frames; no catchwords at end of quires 1-2, 8-9, 14, 18...
Other Decoration: 4- and 3-line gold initials on white-patterned blue/maroon grounds; the initial on f. 127 with a spray of blue and maroon leaves; paragraph marks alternating gold with ink flourishing and blue with red. Running headlines across the opening, omitted on ff. 9v-20v; chapter numbers in the outer margins; marginal notes in the hands of the scribes.
Opening leaf for the abridgment of statutes and for each king's statutes excised, except for that on f. 71, where the opening initial has been cut away and the hole repaired with blank parchment.
Assigned Date: s. XV2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
On f. 1, "G.P. 6 febr. 1625. 97."

Keyword:

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Law

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862051

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50803/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens