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Title

Statuta nova (New Statutes)

Other related names

• Sir Richard Sakevylle, former owner
• J. Palmer, former owner
• St. Audries, Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Baron, 1853-1917, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2009001361.html)
• Frost, H. Harvey, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006007865.html)
• Bernard Quaritch (Firm), former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84093217.html)
• H.P. Kraus (Firm), former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022832.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

LC 14 9.5
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1582839
• Leaves-of-Gold: 79

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin

Origin

Place

London?, England

Summary

This manuscript contains the Statuta nova

Notes

• Inscriptions on the verso of second flyleaf and on 273v in a 15th-century hand; two illuminators: first artist painted the court scenes on fols.46r (Edward III), 104v (Richard II), 167r (Henry V), 182r (Henry VI), and 245r (Edward IV) ; second artist painted the scene on fol. 147r (Henry IV)
   
• This is one of nine copies of the Nova statuta of England written by the same scribe and that follow the same decorative scheme (although using as many as ten different artists); others in this group include: Bodleian Hatton 10; Holkham Hall 232; Harvard University, Houghton Library Richardson 40; B.L. Hargrave MS 274; and Yale University, Law Library, G. St. 11.1
   

Extent

Iv+274+i; 365 x 260 mm bound to 374 x 268 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain; appears to be gathered in quires of 16

Support

Parchment

Binding

English pigskin, blind-stamped, late nineteenth century; Stamped in spine in gold: "Modus ienendi Parliamenium/Tractatus di Senescallo Anglia/Abreggement des Estatuts/Les Estatuts in Françoys Edw. iii—7 & 8 Edw. iv"

Layout

One column of forty-six lines, lead point ruling; prickings are visible; two leaves before the foliated leaves are ruled but otherwise blank as are fols. 44v-45v, fols. 144v-146r, fol. 232v, fols. 262v-274v; written area: 240 x 162 mm

Decoration

Six historiated initials with full borders, five-line decorated and illuminated initials with foliate sprays throughout; red and blue paragraph marks throughout

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• Coat of arms of Molyneux of Sefton, Nottinghamshire, in borders (azure, a cross mokine or); Sir Richard Sakevylle, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, 1548; J. Palmer, 1730; Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, St. Audries, Co. Somerset; Bernard Quaritch (booksellers), London, 1931; H. Harvey Frost; H.P Kraus (booksellers), New York; The Free Library of Philadelphia, Hampton L. Carson Collection, 1957; Pasted onto first flyleaf, bookplate for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Simon Gratz fund; on the verso of the second flyleaf, the book plate of H. Harvey Frost; Signature of J. Palmer, 1730 on the recto of fol. 1 and on verso of second flyleaf with a note, "bought of W. Bourne's [?] executors"; pasted on to inside of front cover: "The Manuscripts of Sir Alex. Acland-Hood, Bart., Bart. at St. Audries, Co. Somerset"
   

Related resources

• Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 449-50, no. 9.
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 29 with illustration on facing page.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 226-228, no. 79.
• M. V. Clark, Medieval Representation and Consent: A Study of Early Parliaments in England and Ireland, with Special Reference to the "Modus tenedi Parliamentum" (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936), p. 368.
• A. C. de la Mare and B. C. Barker-Benfield, eds., Manuscripts at Oxford: An Exhibition in Memory of Richard William Hunt (1908-1979), Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1945-1975 (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1980), no. XXIII.5.
• Kathleen L. Scott, "Introduction," in The Mirroure of the Worlde, MS Bodley 283 (England c. 1470-1480): The Physical Composition, Decoration and Illustration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 46, 59, fig. 3.
• Baker, John Hamilton, English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America: A Descriptive List, part I, Medieval and Renaissance Period (to 1558) (London: Seldon Society, 1985), pp. 59-60, no. 168 and cover illus.
• David Anderson, ed., Catalogue of the Exhibition of Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works, and Their Influence (Knoxville, Tenn.: The New Chaucer Society, University of Tennessee, 1986), pp. 90-92, no. 48.
• Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6 vols. (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), vol. 2, pp. 344-46, no. 131; vol. I, ills. 475, 476.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• English
• Illumination
• Historiated initial
• England
• Legal

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Modus tenendi Parliamentum; incipit: Hic describitur modus quomodo Parliamentum Regis Anglie anglicorum suorum tenebatur…; explicit: . . . per racionabiles summoniciones parliamentum nichilominus censetur esse plenum
• fol. 4v — Tractatus de senescalsia Angliae; incipit: Senescalsia Anglie pertinet ad Commitissam Leycestrie.; explicit: …decollatus apud Blakelowe in co. Warren.
• fol. 6r — Index to the Statutes
• fol. 46r — Nova statuta (1 Edward III to 8 Edward IV); incipit: Come Hugh le despenser & Hugh le despenser le fitz nadgairs a la suite Thomas adonq[ue]s Count de Lancastr[e] & de Leytestr[e] . . .; explicit: . . . trois ans come desuis est dit sicome mesines les ordenn[an]ces firent deu[a]nt cest act fait.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Print catalog entry and notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia Simon Gratz Fund
• Flyleaf 2 verso; i verso — Bookplate, From the Library of H. Harvey Frost
• Flyleaf 2 verso; i verso — Signature of J. Palmer, 1730 and notation in ink "bought of W. Bourne's [?] executors"
• fol. 1r — Signature of J. Palmer, 1730
• fol. 46r — Historiated initial, Edward III
• fol. 104v — Historiated initial R, Richard II
• fol. 147r — Historiated initial H, Henry IV
• fol. 167r — Historiated initial H, Henry V
• fol. 182r — Historiated initial H, Henry VI
• fol. 245r — Historiated initial E, Edward IV
• fol. 273r — Signature, Rychard Sakevylle
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia Simon Gratz Fund