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

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 21
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 29

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript contains the Statuta vetera (Old Statutes).

Notes

• Front flyleaves are mostly detached
   

Extent

Iii+167+iii; 85 x 48 mm bound to 92 x 55 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

The binding is quite tight; appears to have been gathered in quires of 8

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late 19th century red morocco biding; gilt edges; stamped in gold on spine: "MAGNA CARTA MS SAEC. XIII."

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead point in one column of 26 lines; fols. 1r-4v, 13r-17v, and 152v-167v have been left blank; written area: 65 x 36 mm

Decoration

One historiated initial; illuminated initials and borders throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• John Dewey (?); Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; "John Dewey" written in pencil on fol. 155r in a late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century hand. Bookplate of the Philadelphia Free Library, gift of Hampton L. Carson pasted onto inside of 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. 9.
• 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.60, no. 169.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 14th century
• English
• Charter
• Historiated initial
• Illumination
• England
• Legal
• History

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 5v — Table of contents
• fol. 18r — Statuta vetera, including the Magna Carta, Carta de Foresta, Statutum de Merton, Statuta de Marlebergh, Statuta de Westminster I, Statuta de Gloucester, Explanationes Gloucester, Statuta de Westminster II, Statuta de Westminster III, Statutum de Religioses, and the Statue of Lincoln (February 14, 1301)

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia, gift of Hampton L. Carson
• fol. 18r — Historiated initial E, King Edward I
• fol. 27v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 31v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 33r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 37r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 70v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 77r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 78r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 116v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 118r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 119r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 122v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 123v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 128r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 129r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 134r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 135r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 137r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 137v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 138v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 141r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 142v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 143v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 144r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 145r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 148v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 150r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 151v — Illuminated initial Q