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

Title

Readings on Statutes

Other related names

• Horwood, Alfred J. (Alfred John), 1821-1881, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90007335.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

LC 14 12
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 14

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript contains Magna Carta and the Statutes of Merton.

Watermark

Bull with star (see fol. 166v for example)

Extent

Ii+241+ii; 270 x 195 mm bound to 277 x 197 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain; binding is quite tight and few catchwords are extant

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal verso, two within banner design; fols. 104, 120, 225

Binding

Nineteenth-century wooden boards and stamped calf

Layout

Ruled in hard point in one column of thirty-three lines; many folios are left blank throughout; written area is variable ranging from: 160 x 115 mm to 200 x 140 mm

Decoration

Simple pen-flourished initials; some marginalia; blank spaces left for initials

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• "Johannes de ingr...am (?);" belonged to Alfred John Horwood (d. 1881); his sale, S. 8 June 1883, no 1316, to Ridler; sold at Puttick's, 28 June 1916, no. 528
   

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Readings on Statutes