The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 27186

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9826

Shelfmark:

mssHM 27186

Title:

Statutes, roll

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1285 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (6 membranes) : parchment ; 252 x 3650 mm

Former Owner(s):

Coggeshall Abbey

Coggeshall Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Statutes written in England in the late thirteenth century; the last text (Statute 1, 14 Edward III) added in the middle of the fourteenth century.
Span folios: 6 membranes, measuring ca. 76, 68, 71, 65, 66 and 25 cm. respectively. Support: Parchment. Layout: Catchwords in center of lower margin of each membrane (none on dorse). 424 lines on the front, 450 lines on the dorse, frame ruled in dry point. Written by 2 scribes in anglicana scripts: i, arts. 1-4; ii, art. 5. Contemporary note on the dorse, "Statuta regis Edwardi."
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
Apparently belonged to the Cistercian house of Coggeshall (listed with a query by Ker, MLGB, p. 53): a seventeenth century note on the dorse, "Found in the Abbey of Coxall in Essex at the tyme of the dissolution." On the dorse in a modern hand, "134."

Keyword:

scrolls (information artifacts)

manuscripts (documents)

Statutes

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862057

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53473/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens