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Statutes of England
Title
Statutes of England.
Created
England, [between 1325 and 1350]
Physical Description
203 l. : parchment ; 102 x 65 mm.
Language
Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
The last four leaves contain annotations in several hands.
Ownership inscription by White Kennett, recording the gift of the volume from William Salkeld (1671-1715).
Layout: single columns of 21-23 lines.
Script: English court hand.
Decoration: Rubricated. Paragraph marks in red or blue ink. 41 large initials in gold on colored grounds with bar borders terminating in ivy leaves or flowers.
Binding: modern pigskin.
In Latin and Law French.
Provenance
Formerly owned by White Kennett (1660-1728). Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on vellum, in a legal hand. The main text (ff 19-197) contains the texts of the seven major statutes issued in the thirteenth century: Magna carta and Carta de foresta, as confirmed by Edward I; and the Statutes of Merton, Marlborough, Westminster I, Gloucester, and Westminster II. These are followed by thirty-one shorter statutes of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The statutes are preceded by a calendar.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2014
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Statutes of England (Takamiya MS 25). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Statutes of England (Takamiya MS 25). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 14th century.
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