The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25782

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9825

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25782

Title:

Statutes

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1285 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with one section in Old English and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 87 + ii : parchment ; 147 x 217 mm

Note:

Collection of legal statutes including the Magna Carta, the Statuta vetera and the Chapters of the Regard, written in England towards the end of the thirteenth century; the text contains the statute of Exeter (1286) in the main hand and Quia emptores (1290) added by a second hand.
Span folios: ff. 1-87v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-48 54(ff. 33-36) 68 710 8-108 1110(-9). Catchwords in inner lower margin, some in red ink frames; 32 long lines, ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines to the written space, with additional single rules in the inner and outer margins, and with additional double rules in the upper and lower margins. Written in an anglicana script...
Decoration: 5- and 4-line parted red and blue initials with flourishing and infilling in whorl designs in both colors; 4- to 2-line initials alternating red and blue with infilling and flourishing of the other color; paragraph marks alternating red and blue.
Running headlines added in 15th cent.; chapter numbers in the hand of the scribe and by later hands, some correcting the first numbers. Later corrections to the text in the statutes of Westminster I, II and Gloucester. Evidence of fore edge tabs once sewn to upper corners of leaves. Early modern foliation in ink in the lower right corner of the recto, frequently cropped.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
An allusion to the manor of Nasby in Northamptonshire in the text of the statute of Westminster II (f. 66v) seems to refer to the legal struggles of Isabella de Fortibus (1237-93) regarding those lands. On f. 32v, the will of Gylbart Forman of Rodwell, Yorkshire dated 21 May 1500. On f. 1, 18th[?] c., "No. 84 JP." Bookplate on front pastedown of Lowther, possibly of the earls of Lonsdale.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Forests and forestry

Statutes

Law--Dictionaries

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862056

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50861/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens