The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 45147

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9829

Shelfmark:

mssHM 45147

Title:

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. 104 : parchment ; 179-190 x 271-292 mm

Note:

Register of writs, beginning and ending defectively. Written in England during the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-104v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation: (2 quires missing here) 1-78(3 quires missing here) 88(1 quire missing here) 98 (1 quire missing here) 10-138 (unknown number of quires missing here). Catchwords in the center of the lower margin through quire 7, and in the right lower margin in quires 8-13; 33-45 long lines, ruled in lead; top and bottom 2 lines full across in...
Decoration: Plain red 3- and 2-line initials; blank spaces reserved for initials on the leaves copied by the third scribe; paragraph marks in red, omitted on some leaves.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012.
On the inside front cover, a pledge note, "Remanet in plegium [manuscript: "pplm"] iiii s. iiii d." A slip from an American[?] book dealer's catalogue tipped into the volume; the price code "srsts" in pencil in the upper margin of f. 1.

Keyword:

marginalia (annotations)

manuscripts (documents)

Law

Writs

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862060

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50869/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens