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This manuscript contains the Statuta nova written circa 1487.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+392+ii (accounting for one unnumbered folio); 305 x 200 mm bound to 322 x 210 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; quires numbered in pencil lower inside margin recto; irregular contemporary signatures lower corner recto; Collation: 1-4 (8), 5 (4), 6-16 (8), 17 (4), 18 (2), 19-52 (8); Catchwords: Horizontal lower margin verso: fols. 44, 52, 60, 68, 76, 84, 92, 100, 108, 116, 124, 137, 145, 153, 161, 169, 177, 185, 197, 205, 213, 228
Frame-ruled in lead point in one column of forty-two lines; prickings extant; fols. 371v to 391v are ruled but left blank; written area: 215 x 120 mm
Gothic--anglicana
Illuminated initial (fol. 1r) and four illuminated initials with full borders; pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue
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England
Circa 1487
Late fifteenth-century, original wood boards; blind stamp decoration of pelicans and the arms of Cologne; rebacked; stamped in gold on spine: "STATVTA HEN. III -- HEN. VII MS. IN MEMBRANES;" metal clasps are attached to back cover
Anglo-Norman
Charles Butler (1912); his sale, S. 17 March 1912, no. 2694, to Leighton; Charles Maggs, London (bookseller); Charles Sessler, Philadelphia (bookseller); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929
England
Circa 1487
Anglo-Norman
Charles Butler
This manuscript contains the Statuta nova written circa 1487.
Gothic--anglicana
Illuminated initial (fol. 1r) and four illuminated initials with full borders; pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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