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

Title

Britton

Other related names

• Page-Turner, Gregory Osborne, Sir, 1785-1843, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
• Maggs Bros., former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82075696.html)
• 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 13
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 5

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

Origin

Place

England

Notes

• Spine has become detached
   
• Although the text is labeled Bracton and the spine of the book claims that it is Bracton's De legibus Angliae, the text is in fact the Britton
   

Extent

Vi+127+ii; 272 x 186 mm bound to 285 x 197 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2-4 (12), 5 (14), 6-9 (12), 10 (6), 11 (12), 12 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal lower inner margin verso; fols. 15, 27, 39, 53, 65, 77, 89, 101, 119, 127

Binding

Mid-19th-century russia leather binding, spine with blind-tooled decoration and stamped in gold: "BRACTON DE LEGIBUS ANGLIAE"; Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of forty-five lines, prickings visible; contemporary book numbering, upper center margin recto and verso; written area: 210 x 140 mm

Decoration

Red and blue pen-flourished initials throughout; paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrication throughout; some marginalia

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• Sir Gregory Osborn Page Turner (d. 1843) of Battlesdon House, Beds; Sir Thomas Phillipps; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London (1909); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; Bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson, pasted onto inside of front cover; typed description of manuscript pasted onto inside of front cover; Phillipps manuscript number written in ink on the verso of the first flyleaf, "23713 mss Ph."; Phillipps number appears again on fol. 4r; On the verso of the first flyleaf is pasted a catalog description of the manuscript and notes written in pencil, "Sir G. P. Turner", "Bracton Early fourteenth XIV", "the full text not condensed early fourteenth Century", "British Museum Report a 8.997", "3097" [crossed out], and "Purchased at the sale of the Sir Thomas Phillipps Collection of Manuscripts, sold at Messers Sotheby Wilkinson and Hodge of London"
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2016, no. 5.
• John Hamilton Baker, English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America: A Descriptive List, part I, Medieval and Renaissance Period (to 1558) (London: Seldon Society, 1985), p.61, no. 172.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 14th century
• English
• Marginalia
• Charter
• England
• Legal
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Notes and mnemonics
• fol. 4r — Britton; incipit: Edward par la grace de dieu roy dengleterre e[t] s[e]i[g]ni direlau[n]de a tout ses feaus e[t] suggets de engleterre e[t] direlaunde . . .; explicit: … si le plee foit adon[ques] est la p[ar]ole suspendable sants tout iusq[ue]s a la retourne de cely.
• fol. 106r — Writs

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Typed description of manuscript
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 31v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 34v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 77r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 83r — Decorated initial L