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This manuscript contains the Statuta nova
Support: Parchment; Extent: iv+274+i; 365 x 260 mm bound to 374 x 268 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: Structure uncertain; appears to be gathered in quires of 16
One column of forty-six lines, lead point ruling; prickings are visible; two leaves before the foliated leaves are ruled but otherwise blank as are fols. 44v-45v, fols. 144v-146r, fol. 232v, fols. 262v-274v; written area: 240 x 162 mm
Gothic--anglicana
Six historiated initials with full borders, five-line decorated and illuminated initials with foliate sprays throughout; red and blue paragraph marks throughout
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.
Inscriptions on the verso of second flyleaf and on 273v in a 15th-century hand; two illuminators: first artist painted the court scenes on fols.46r (Edward III), 104v (Richard II), 167r (Henry V), 182r (Henry VI), and 245r (Edward IV) ; second artist painted the scene on fol. 147r (Henry IV)
This is one of nine copies of the Nova statuta of England written by the same scribe and that follow the same decorative scheme (although using as many as ten different artists); others in this group include: Bodleian Hatton 10; Holkham Hall 232; Harvard University, Houghton Library Richardson 40; B.L. Hargrave MS 274; and Yale University, Law Library, G. St. 11.1
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.
London?, England
Circa 1450
English pigskin, blind-stamped, late nineteenth century; Stamped in spine in gold: "Modus ienendi Parliamenium/Tractatus di Senescallo Anglia/Abreggement des Estatuts/Les Estatuts in Françoys Edw. iii—7 & 8 Edw. iv"
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
Coat of arms of Molyneux of Sefton, Nottinghamshire, in borders (azure, a cross mokine or); Sir Richard Sakevylle, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, 1548; J. Palmer, 1730; Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, St. Audries, Co. Somerset; Bernard Quaritch (booksellers), London, 1931; H. Harvey Frost; H.P Kraus (booksellers), New York; The Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection, 1957; Pasted onto first flyleaf, bookplate for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Simon Gratz fund; on the verso of the second flyleaf, the book plate of H. Harvey Frost; Signature of J. Palmer, 1730 on the recto of fol. 1 and on verso of second flyleaf with a note, "bought of W. Bourne's [?] executors"; pasted on to inside of front cover: "The Manuscripts of Sir Alex. Acland-Hood, Bart., Bart. at St. Audries, Co. Somerset"
London?, England
Circa 1450
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
Coat of arms of Molyneux of Sefton, Nottinghamshire, in borders , New York; The Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection, 1957; Pasted onto first flyleaf, bookplate for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Simon Gratz fund; on the verso of the second flyleaf, the book plate of H. Harvey Frost; Signature of J. Palmer, 1730 on the recto of fol. 1 and on verso of second flyleaf with a note, "bought of W. Bourne's [?] executors"; pasted on to inside of front cover: "The Manuscripts of Sir Alex. Acland-Hood, Bart., Bart. at St. Audries, Co. Somerset" (provenance)
This manuscript contains the Statuta nova
Inscriptions on the verso of second flyleaf and on 273v in a 15th-century hand; two illuminators: first artist painted the court scenes on fols.46r (Edward III), 104v (Richard II), 167r (Henry V), 182r (Henry VI), and 245r (Edward IV) ; second artist painted the scene on fol. 147r (Henry IV)
This is one of nine copies of the Nova statuta of England written by the same scribe and that follow the same decorative scheme (although using as many as ten different artists); others in this group include: Bodleian Hatton 10; Holkham Hall 232; Harvard University, Houghton Library Richardson 40; B.L. Hargrave MS 274; and Yale University, Law Library, G. St. 11.1
Gothic--anglicana
Six historiated initials with full borders, five-line decorated and illuminated initials with foliate sprays throughout; red and blue paragraph marks throughout
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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