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Statuta nova (New Statutes) LC 14 10
Free Library of Philadelphia
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Abstract

This manuscript contains the Statuta nova written circa 1487.

Physical Description

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

Layout

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

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Decoration

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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Keywords
Treatise
15th century
English
Charter
Illumination
England
Legal
History
Free Library of Philadelphia

Place of Origin

England

Date

Circa 1487

Binding

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

Language

Anglo-Norman

Provenance

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

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Place of Origin

England

Date

Circa 1487

Language

Anglo-Norman

Provenance

Charles Butler

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

This manuscript contains the Statuta nova written circa 1487.

Script note

Gothic--anglicana

Decoration Note

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Treatise
15th century
English
Charter
England
Legal
History
Free Library of Philadelphia
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