Description of Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 20.5: Statuta Angliae contributor Diane Biunno cataloger Dot Porter Council on Library and Information Resources Free Library of Philadelphia These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia, LC 14 20.5: Statuta Angliae are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Free Library of Philadelphia LC 14 20.5: Statuta Angliae. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Manuscript is bound in its original oak boards, which are attached to the text block with leather straps; four pegs have been inserted into the boards to hold straps in place; two holes near fore edge of the cover indicate where a clasp had once been affixed Date is provided by notes accompanying the manuscript, which offer a date of circa 1299-1300 because the collection lacks the Statute of Lincoln passed in January 1301 First two quires almost detached Don C. Skemer, "From Archives to the Book Trade: Private statute rolls in England, 1285-1307," Journal of the Society of Archivists 16 (1995), p. 204, n. 48. United States Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia Hampton L. Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law LC 14 20.5 https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1582841 This manuscript contains a collection of English statutes dating from 1235-1299 and a copy of the Magna Carta. Latin Statuta Angliae former owner Levinson, Harry A. Unnumbered ii recto Table of contents Unnumbered iv recto Calendar Unnumbered x recto List of Statutes 1r Magna Carta 10r Statutum de Merton 15r Statuta de Marlebergh 27v Statuta de Westminster I 56r Statuta de Gloucester 63r Explanationes Gloucester 64r Statuta de Westminster II 113v Quia emptores 115r De Religioses 116r Districtiones scaccarii 117v Statutum Mercatorum 123r Statutum de finibus 128v Statutum de iuratoribus 129v Statutum de bigamus 132r Ubi prohibicio regia locum habet 133r Articuli contra prohibicionem Regis 134r Quo Waranto novum 134v De coniunctim feofatis 138r Modus calumpniandi esson 139r Modus faciendi homagium 139v Novi articuli 151r Statutum Wynton 156r Articuli Wynton 157v Statutum de vasto 159r Statutum de vocatis ad warantum 160v Novi articuli Wynton 164r Composicio monete 164r Statutum de champart 165r Statutum de champart 165v Dies communes in banco 166r Dies communes in dote 167r Statutem de anno it die bisestili 167v Statutem de herditate partita 169r Statutum pro terra 170r De venientibus 171v Statutum de prisouibus 173r De corone

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 184+ii; 83 x 50 mm bound to 83 x 52 mm Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; the first eleven folios (calendar) is not included in the foliation

1 (11, +1), 2-17 (8), 18 (6), 19-22 (8), 23 (8, +1 +8)

Catchwords on 8v, 16v, 23v, 31v, 39v, 47v, 55v, 71v, 87v, 95v, 103v, 111v, 119v, 127v, 133v, [141v], 149v, 157v, 165v

written area: 60 x 35 mm; 1 column of 24 lines, lead point ruling; 1 historiated initial with full border; decorated and illuminated initials and borders throughout; red and blue 1-line initials throughout. The first quire, which contains the calendar, is not paginated. Gothic--anglicana 1rHistoriated initial E, King Edward I 1rInhabited border 10rDecorated initial 15rDecorated initial 27vDecorated initial 56rDecorated initial 63rDecorated initial 64rDecorated initial and inhabited border 113vDecorated initial 115rDecorated initial 116rDecorated initial 117vDecorated initial 123rDecorated initial 127rDecorated initial 128vDecorated initial 132rDecorated initial 133rDecorated initial 134rDecorated initial 134vDecorated initial 138rDecorated initial 139rDecorated initial 139vDecorated initial 151rDecorated initial 156rDecorated initial 157vDecorated initial 159rDecorated initial 160vDecorated initial 164rDecorated initial 165rDecorated initial 165vDecorated initial 166rDecorated initial 167rDecorated initial 167vDecorated initial 169rDecorated initial 170rDecorated initial 171vDecorated initial 173rDecorated initial

Original oak boards.

Not before 1301

England Purchased by the Free Library of Philadelphia from Harry A. Levinson in 1964 through the Simon Gratz fund; notations in pencil on inside back cover "Levinson 64" and "Gratz" Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Document 14th century English Charter England History Legal