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."
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