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

Title

Statuta vetera (Old Statutes)

Other related names

• Lloyd-Mostyn, Llewellyn Neville Vaughan, 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 28
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 15

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript is a late 14th century copy of the Statuta vetera (Old Statutes), including the Magna Carta and the Customs of Kent.

Notes

• f. 204r-205r: note concerning the ordinances of the warden of the Fleet (1444)
   

Extent

I+205; 93 x 61 mm bound to 100 x 68 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2-25 (8), 26 (8, -8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords on lower right verso through the first section of the manuscript only; 14v, [22v], [30v], [38v], [46v], [54v], [62v]

Binding

Original doeskin over wooden boards; printed "100" pasted to spine; ink letters on front cover, no longer legible; remains of ordinal clasp and leather strap

Layout

1 column of 23 lines, lead point ruling (prickings visible); written area: 62 x 35 mm

Decoration

1 illuminated initial and decorated border, red and blue decorated initials throughout

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• Llewellyn Neville Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn, Flintshire; Tregagkins; Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1929; Coat of arms on 205v; printed "100" pasted to spine and "Ms no 100" written in ink on verso of flyleaf; booksellers catalog entry pasted onto inside front cover; note laid into manuscript reads: "Late XIV cent. The date 1447 is in a different and much later hand."
   

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. 2018, no. 15.
• 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.64-65, no. 184.

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Index
• fol. 7r — Statuta vetera
• fol. 198v — Customs of Kent

Decorations

• Inside front cover; Foldout recto (unfolded) — Booksellers catalog entry
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 205v — Coat of arms