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Tractatvs de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliæ : tempore regis Henrici Secundi compositus, iusticiæ gubernacula tenente illustri viro Ranulpho de Glanuilla iuris regni & antiquarum consuetudinu[m] eo tempore peritissimo. Et illas solu[m] leges continet & consuetudines secundum quas placitatur in Curia regis ad Scaccarium & coram insticiis vbicunque fuerint. Huis adiectæ sunt a quondam legum studioso adnotationes aliquot marginales non inutiles.

Accession number
PML 37721
Creator
Glanville, Ranulf de, 1130-1190.
Published
Londini : In ædibus Richardi Totteli. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1555?
Notes
Brit. Mus. Cat., 697 with date [1555?].
Brown oasis half-binding. The initials I.B. stamped on both covers (of previous binding?).
Collation: Leaf 1[superscript a] title, 1[superscript b] blank, 2[superscript a]-3[superscript a] Prologue, 3[superscript b] blank, Folios numbered 1-113 (misnumbered), text, P8 blank, Q1[superscript a]-R8[superscript a] table, R8[superscript a] colophon, R8[superscript b] errata.
Ed. by Sir W. Stanford.--cf. STC (2nd ed.).
First ed.--(STC 11905 with date [1555?]).
First printing of the oldest of the English legal classics.
Imprint from colophon.
In 14 books.
Initials.
Isaac, II, fig. 138a with date [1555].
Signatures: A-R⁸ - Perfect; I2 missigned Gii, I4is signed Giiii; P8 blank and genuine. Foliation begins on A4 with 1 and ends incorrectly on P7 with 113 for 116.
Description
3 p. l., 113 (i.e. 116) numb. l., [34] p. ; 14 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
The initials T.L. on verso of title page, and the name Thomas Lilus on last fly-leaf. Occasional marginal annotations.
Provenance
Lavington booklabel.
Classification
Department