Natura brevium and other works.

Description

Title: Natura brevium and other works.
Contributor: Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377
Taussig, Anthony
Published / Created: [circa 1450]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura brevium; the text of The old tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
Description: A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34.
Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue.
In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420.
Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering).
Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012.
Script: English book hands.
Extent: 420 p. : parchment ; 193 x 46 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377
Taussig, Anthony
Subject (Topic): Law--England--Early works to 1800
Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Writs--England--Early works to 1800
Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800

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Citation: A catalogue of the legal manuscripts of Anthony Taussig / Sir John Baker and Anthony Taussig. London: Selden Society, 2007.
Natura brevium and Other Works. Anthony Taussig Collection of Legal Manuscripts, James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 11861770
Object ID (OID): 11685480
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.a058.htm