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.
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