Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Statuta nova (New Statutes)

Other related names

• Butler, Charles, former owner
• Sessler, Charles, former owner
• Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence), 1852-1929, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85239186.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

LC 14 10
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 17

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Anglo-Norman

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript contains the Statuta nova written circa 1487.

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)

Support

Parchment

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

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

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

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

Script

Gothic--anglicana

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
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• English
• Charter
• Illumination
• England
• Legal
• History

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson
• Inside front cover — Printed manuscript description
• Inside front cover — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Typewritten manuscript description, from the seller Charles Sessler
• Insert i recto — Typewritten manuscript description, from the seller Maggs Bros.
• fol. 37r — Illuminated border
• fol. 37r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 190r — Illuminated border
• fol. 190r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 221r — Illuminated border
• fol. 221r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 314r — Illuminated border
• fol. 314r — Illuminated initial E
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Typewritten manuscript description, from the seller Charles Sessler