The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 19920

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9824

Shelfmark:

mssHM 19920

Title:

Statutes

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1407 and 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, French and Middle English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iv + iv + 258 + iv : parchment ; 230 x 348 mm

Former Owner(s):

Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958

Charles William Dyson Perrins WIKIDATA

Note:

Collection of statutes written in England in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, but after 1407, the date of the last statute (art. 177); the table on f. 92v with dates from 1413 to 1500 may constitute a later addition. Possibly intended for owners in York, given the presence of Yorkshire saints in the calendar and the text of "Decretum Walteri Grey Archiepiscopi Eboracensis".
Span folios: ff. 1-258v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-108 118(-4, 5 after f. 83) 128(-2, 3 after f. 87) 136(calendar) 148(-1 after f. 98) 15-228 234(-2 after f. 170) 24-298 306(through f. 226) 31-348. Catchwords in flourished ink frames in the inner lower margin; 2 columns of 40 lines, ruled in ink with additional double rules in all 4 margins (omitted in lower margins of quires 8, 9, 12, 23...
Decoration: Historiated initials, 8- and 7-line, in the style of the Dutch Master of the Carmelite Missal (and related to the historiated initials in the Great Cowchers), containing portraits of Henry III (f. 1), Richard II (f. 173) and Henry IV (f. 227); the leaf beginning the statutes of Edward III has been excised, but the offset of a full border remains on f. 98v. The initials are in...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
The coats of arms on f. 1 are: in the upper corner, the arms of England; in the outer margin, barry of 6 or and azure, on a canton argent a chaplet gules (Holme, of Yorkshire or of Lancashire); across the lower margin, the first coat of arms, Holme impaling sable a lion rampant argent (Wastneys), the second Holme, and the third Holme within a bordure engrailed gules; below these 3 coats of...

Keyword:

historiated initials

manuscripts (documents)

statutes

coats of arms

Law

Statutes

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862055

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50962/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens