The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 15242

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9823

Shelfmark:

mssHM 15242

Title:

Fragment from a Register of writs

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 8 : parchment ; 195 x 275 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Eight leaves from a Register of writs written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-8v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18, with a catchword on f. 8. 39 long lines, ruled in ink with an additional set of double rules in the 3 outer margins. Written in a secretary script with anglicana forms.
Decoration: 8-line gold initial on a particolored blue and maroon ground with white patterning; from the initial, a black ink spray with green leaves and gold trefoils; alternating red and blue paragraph marks. Running headline on all leaves, "capitulum primum." Contemporary foliation, i-viii.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
In the lower margin of f. 1, in a textura hand in blue ink with a red initial, the name "Folbery," possibly the Robert Folbery/Fulberry of Newcastle (1420-85) admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1443-44 (see J. C. Wedgwood and A. D. Holt, History of Parliament, Biographies. . . 1439-1509 (London 1936) 343). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his n. 11002. Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 24 June 1935, lot...

Keyword:

writs

detached leaves

manuscripts (documents)

Writs

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862054

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50909/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens