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ff. 6-15v, 16-89v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. On ff. 1-5v, preliminary matter. ff. 15v-16. Sententia lata super cartas. Incipit: En le noun del pier del fyz e del seynt espiryt amen. Cum nostre seignur le Roi al honur de deu e de seynt eglise e al comun profist de sun Reaum a touz lours les choses desus escrytes, Nous Roberd Erceveske de Canterbyry et primas de tut Engletere amovescoms un foyz deus foyz e troys foyz puys que la brefte del temps plus loynge demure. Explicit: e de touz les sacramentes de seynt eglise enseveroms fiat fiat amen. Rubric: Incipit sentencia lata super cartas. French. ff. 89v-100. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres sive circa plures tenentes pro indiviso. Explicit: et sic procedere debent alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Iudicium Essoniorum. Rubric: Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 116-42. ff. 100-107. Modus componendi brevia. Incipit: Cum sit necessarium conquerentibus in Curia domini Regis ut sibi in suis casibus congruum exibeatur remedium. Explicit: Licet antecessor conquerentis de pastura illa fuerit disseysitus. Explicit modus componendi Brevia. Rubric: Modus componendi Brevia. Latin. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 143-59, here ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 107-113v. Summa de bastardia. Incipit: Nota quod si bastardus se clamando legitimum heredem. Explicit: quamvis uxor infantis obierit dum fuerit in custodia. Nota si un hom claym par meyme la descent par bref de possessioun l'autre mette encuntre ly q'il est bastard qe unkes sun pier esposa sa mere l'enqueste deyt estre prys en la curt le Roi. Explicit Bastardia. Rubric: Sequitur Summa de Bastardia. Latin. See Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 1 and n. 3. ff. 113v-125v; ff. 125v-127v blank. Hengham Parva. Incipit: Notandum quod quinque sunt essonia. Prima de ultra mare, Secundum de terra sancta. Explicit: Quia nichil tam naturale est quam unumquisque dissolvi eo genere quo est ligatum. Explicit parvum hyngham. Rubric: Sequitur parvum hyngham. Latin. On ff. 125v-126, added material. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 51-71; for the passage that begins"Homagium est iuris vinculum" see G. E. Woodbine, ed., Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, trans. and with notes by S. E. Thorne (Harvard University Press and the Selden Society 1968-77) 2:228. ff. 128-195v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right, dated 20 Edward [I], 1291/92, with names of persons by initial only. Title supplied by cataloger. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana. Layout: 1⁴(+5) 2-10⁸ 11¹²(through f. 89) 12-15⁸ 16⁶(through f. 127) 17-23⁸ 24¹². Catchwords placed between the double rule in the lower margin; none on quires 1, 11, 16, 24. 22-28 long lines; 23 long lines in art. 33. Ruled in lead with double rule across top and along the outer edge of the written space; additional double rules in the upper margin for running headlines (mostly cropped), along the outer margin (mostly cropped) and in the lower margin; slash prick marks at the 4 corners of the written space and in upper and lower margins for additional double rules. Span folios: ff. 1-195v. Other Decoration: : 8- to 5-line spaces reserved for initials; opening initial on f. 128, 8-line, in blue with red flourishing; paragraph marks in red throughout. Running headlines in the hand of the scribe, mostly cropped. On some leaves where original headline has been cropped, a fifteenth century hand has supplied the title. Finding notes in the register of writs in the hand of the scribe. Erased note in lower margin of f. 5. Assigned Date: s. XIVin. Former pressmark, EL 1122. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, ca. 1840, in red morocco, gold tooled with the Bridgewater crest stamped in gold on both covers; gilt edges. EL 34 B 23. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Law--England--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Note on f. 195v, s. XV/ XVI, "liber iste Restat Ricardo Bunney" with what appears to be a monogram of initials "M" (or "W"?) and "L"(?). On f. iii: "Liber Tho. Egerton ex dono Thomae hyggons" inscribed by Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617); the two signatures "J Bridgewater" by the first and second Earls (1579-1649 and 1622-86, respectively); "E:2." by the first Earl, corrected to "E:2./10." by the second Earl. On f. 1, in modern pencil, "513" corrected to "1122."
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