Hengham, Ralph de, -1311. Hengham parva Dunbar, Nathaniel, -1837, former owner Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 946
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ff. 1-38v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. ff. 38v-44v. Fet asaver. Incipit: Fet asaver que au comencement de chescun play que est plede en la Court le rey. Explicit: Mes si la terre luy fust donee en franc mariage donc covendra que ele seit//. Rubric: Incipit Summa Fet asaver. French. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 53-96, here ending defectively. ff. 45-50. Hengham Parva. Incipit: //Et iacet solummodo in omni breve de recto ante apparenciam. Explicit: Si compertus fuit ille qui primo cassavit breve verus tenens. Explicit Summa de quinque essoniis. Latin. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 54-71, the "Summa Parva" here beginning defectively. ff. 50-54. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres. Explicit: et sic procedere debent ad alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Rubric: Incipit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. Woodbine, 116-42. ff. 54-59; f. 59v blank. Cadit assisa. Incipit: Rex vicecomiti salutem. Si Adam Bonde fecerit te securum de clamore suo prosequendo. . ., Cadit assisa si petatur tenementum per assisam. Explicit: si petens ius petendi remanebit possessio suo loco ut predictum est. Rubric: Incipit Summa Cadit assisa. Latin. See Woodbine, p. 1 and n. 4 giving references to Bracton; the text is preceded by an assize of mort d'ancestor by Adam Bonde in the time of Edward I. ff. 60-83v. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right to the sheriffs of London (no names given) and ending defectively in a note concerning disseisin of husband and wife. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana. Layout: 1-2⁸ 3⁸(-2, after f. 17) 4⁸ 5⁸(-4 and 5 after f. 34, and -7 after f. 35) 6-7⁸ 8⁸(-8 after f. 59, presumably blank) 9-11⁸. 31-37 long lines ruled in lead. Other Decoration: Opening initials, ff. 38v and 60, 6- and 4-line, in parted red and blue with flourishing; secondary initials, 4- to 2-line, in red or blue with flourishing of the other color; alternating red and blue paragraph marks; running headlines in the hand of the scribe. Statutes primarily from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) Nineteenth century quire signatures, [b]-g, k-n, suggest that one quire is missing at the beginning (which may have contained Magna Carta, Carta de foresta, Provisions of Merton and the beginning of the Statute of Marlborough) and that 2 quires are missing between the present quires 6 and 7 before f. 45 (which may have contained the Summa Magna of Hengham); at least one quire is missing at the end. Assigned Date: s. XIV1. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/29/2012. 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). Formerly bound in English calf, s. XVIII, with Henry Elsynge, Modus tenendi Parliamenti apud Anglos (manuscript, s. XVII, ff. 126), now shelved separately as HM 947; both parts presently disbound. HM 946. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
On the front pastedown of the previous binding, s. XVIII, "r r s N T." N. 77 in the collection of Nathaniel Dunbar (d. 1837) of Middle Temple; his signature on the front pastedown and on f. i verso. Belonged to George Dunn (1864-1912); his list of the contents of HM 946, dated January 1895, on the front pastedown and the last flyleaf; Dunn sale, Sotheby's, 2 February 1914, lot 1347 to Leighton.
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