Accession number
MS M.812
Object title
Registrum brevium and other legal texts (MS M.812).
Display Date
between 1275 and 1320.
Created
England, between 1275 and 1320.
Binding
19th-century English green morocco gilt with the Cholmondeley crest.
Description
133 leaves (1 column, 33 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Richard Haworth of Lower Darwen, d. 1603 (inscription on fol. 2: Pertinet Ri. Haworth, motto: spes mea christus; Cholmondeley family (?); purchased from Philip Brooks in 1941.
Notes
Ms. legal texts; written and illuminated in England in the late 13th and/or early 14th century.
Texts: Registrum brevium (fol. 1-64); Magna Carta and other statutes of the realm (fol. 66-132v).
Decoration: 2 historiated initals; marginal drawings and drolleries, some figured, some text referent.
Texts: Registrum brevium (fol. 1-64); Magna Carta and other statutes of the realm (fol. 66-132v).
Decoration: 2 historiated initals; marginal drawings and drolleries, some figured, some text referent.
Script
English cursive documentary script
Language
Latin and Middle French
Resources
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