The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1343

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9938

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1343

Title:

Grand coutumier and Decisions of the Norman Exchequer

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with final text in French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 102 : parchment ; 160 x 220 mm

Former Owner(s):

Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron, 1583-1648

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury WIKIDATA

Powis, George Charles Herbert, Earl of, 1862-

George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Texts of the Grand coutumier in Latin and Decisions of the Norman Exchequer written in France in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-102v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-128 136. Catchwords in lower right corner, enclosed in frames, usually retraced in red; quires and leaves signed in red with letters of the alphabet and roman numerals; an arabic "2" marks the beginning of the second half of the quire. 2 columns of 27 lines, ruled in lead with single bounding lines, and all horizontal lines full across...
Decoration: Space reserved, f. 1, ca. 90 x 120 mm., presumably for a miniature. Opening initial, f. 1, 5-line, parted blue and pale green with red leaf filigree as infilling; secondary initials, 2-line, alternating red with purple penwork or blue with red. On ff. 19v-20, tables of consanguinity. Red rubrics and paragraph marks throughout. Guide letters and rubrics in black ink in a noting hand...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/2/2012.
Belonged to Edward Herbert, first Baron Herbert of Cherbury, whose calligraphic monogram, "E" superimposed on an "H," appears on f. 1, along with the indication of price. His manuscripts were left to his grandson, Edward, the third Baron; later they belonged to George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (1862-1952); his sale, Sotheby's, 20 March 1923, n. 199 to A. S. W. Rosenbach.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Customary law

Finance, Public

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862170

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52711/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens