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Title

Statuta vetera (Old Statutes)

Other related names

• 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 19
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 8

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript contains Statuta vetera (Old Statutes).

Notes

• Pasted in notes (flyleaf 1 recto) include collation of: a10 b8 c12 d6 e12 f10 g-u8 x2 - new collation reflects a change in f10 to f8 and in g-u8 to g-t8; Vellum of the binding has broken on the back of spine, in joints, and front cover
   

Extent

I+170+i; 179 x 122 mm bound to 185 x 130 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto and upper right recto; contemporary foliation upper right recto

Collation

1 (10), 2 (8), 3 (12), 4 (6), 5 (12), 6-20 (8), 21 (2)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Irregularly (folios have been trimmed), horizontal lower inner margin verso

Binding

Late eighteenth-century tooled vellum binding. Two metal clasps. Stamped on spine: "INSPEXIMUS EDWARDI PRI[MUS] MAGNA CARTA ET ALLIS STATUTIBUS"

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead in one column of variable lines ranging from twenty-six to thirty-two lines, prickings visible; running headings throughout; written area: 145 x 89 mm

Decoration

Illuminated initial (fol. 1r); red and blue initials decorated with pen flourishing and foliate designs throughout; paragraph marks in red and blue; marginalia and glossing throughout

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; Book plate of the Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson, pasted onto inside front cover. "M 1" written in ink and pasted onto inside front cover
   

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. 2017, no. 8.
• 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.63, no. 178.

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Magna Carta
• fol. 5r — Carta de Foresta
• fol. 7r — Sententia de Foresta
• fol. 8r — Westmonsterii primum
• fol. 11v — Statuta de Merton
• fol. 14r — Articuli super Magnum Cartam (Gallice)
• fol. 18v — Westmonsterii secundum
• fol. 39v — Statuta de Marleberge
• fol. 44r — Statuta de Gloucester
• fol. 47r — Explanationes Gloucesteris
• fol. 47v — Statuta Quia Fines
• fol. 48v — Statuta Westmon quartum
• fol. 49r — Statuta de Bigamis
• fol. 50r — Statuta Berwyck
• fol. 50v — Statuta de advocatione ad Warentum
• fol. 51r — Statuta de militibus
• fol. 53r — Articuli Exon
• fol. 54r — Statuta de Justiciariis assignatis
• fol. 54v — Modus calumniandi essonia
• fol. 55r — Modus faciendihomagium …
• fol. 55v — Extenta manarii
• fol. 56v — Statuta circumspecte agacis
• fol. 57r — Statuta de mercatoribus
• fol. 58v — Statuta de eodem per emend
• fol. 60v — Statuta de Wyndesore
• fol. 61r — Statuta quo waranto magni
• fol. 62v — Statuta quo waranto nomin
• fol. 63r — Statuta de Winton
• fol. 65v — Statuta Scaccarii
• fol. 68r — Distributiones ei usdem
• fol. 68v — Statuta Scaccarii novum
• fol. 70r — Statuta Ragemen
• fol. 70v — Statuta Provisio de heritibus
• fol. 71r — St. de Religiosi
• fol. 72r — Regia prohibitio; Just. de Foresta
• fol. 73r — Assisa foresta
• fol. 74r — Capitula eiusdem
• fol. 76r — Statuta de Regardo fatiendo
• fol. 77v — Statuta de compositione moneta; Statuta de moneta
• fol. 79r — Capit. Que tangent coronam
• fol. 81r — Assisa panis
• fol. 81v — Assisa cervisie
• fol. 82r — Iudicum pillorie
• fol. 83r — Nova costume de mercatoribus
• fol. 86r — Dies communis de banco
• fol. 87r — Statuta de emptoribus terraram
• fol. 89r — Statuta Wallie
• fol. 97v — Edict. Kenillworth
• fol. 103r — De hiberna
• fol. 103v — De actione vasti
• fol. 104v — Statuta de garde et relief (Gallice)
• fol. 105r — Modus componendi brevia
• fol. 110r — Ad cassandis brevia
• fol. 116v — Cadit assisa
• fol. 124v — Fet asaver
• fol. 138v — Magnam Hengham
• fol. 156v — Parvam Hengham
• fol. 164v — Summa de Bastardia
• fol. 169r — Index

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 19r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 19r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 25r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 39v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 44r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 48v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 49r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 50r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 50v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 51r — Decorated initial R
• fol. 52r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 54r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial H
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 55v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 56v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 57r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 58v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 60v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 62v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 62v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 63r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 65v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 68r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 70r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 70v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 71r — Decorated initial R
• fol. 72r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 72r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 73r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 74r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 76r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 77v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 77v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 78v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 79r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 79v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 81r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 82r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 82r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 83r — Decorated initial R
• fol. 86r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 87r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 89r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 97v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 103r — Decorated initial R
• fol. 103v — Decorated initial W
• fol. 104v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 105r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 116v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 124v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 138v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 156v — Decorated initial N
• fol. 164v — Decorated initial S