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ff. 1-6; f. 6v blank. "Kalendarium." Latin. In 46 chapters substantially the same as that printed in W. S. Holdsworth, A History of English Law, II (3rd edn, 1923), 617-636 . ff. 7-228v. Registrum brevium. Latin; French. Some texts are in very similar script but appear to be additions due to their different ink and/or lack of colored paraphs and/or absence from the kalendarium (ff. 81v, 85v, 128v, 129, 146v-147v, 149v-150v, and 228v). Title from printed catalog Support: Parchment. Script: Cursive gothic script. Layout: 41 long lines, separated from a running heading by a blank line, and with individual heading for each writ and rule in an outer column; ruling in plummet. Span folios: ff. 1-228v. Other Decoration: One eight-line initial in blue with white modeling, on a gold ground, with infill and a three-sided border of conventional foliage in reds, blues, and orange, with green leaves; 3-line initials marking the remaining sections in gold on a ground of blue and reddish, with white tracery; paraph marks throughout (except in the added texts) alternately blue or red. Written no earlier than 1430 (cf. writ on f. 7), and perhaps not long after, as the statute dated 1430 is a slightly later addition (f. 149v; this and a few other additions were made in spaces left for the purpose; they appear contemporary, but lack the colored paraphs found throughout the rest of the volume). Assigned Date: s. XV2/4. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009. Bound, s. XX1, in brown morocco; the covers framed by a pair of blind fillets, the spine with five raised bands, the second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt "REGISTRUM / BREVIUM // MS. / SAEC. XV," the edges of the leaves speckled red. HM 62471. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Breslauer, Catalogue 71 (1950), item 70, with his typescript description of the manuscript loosely inserted (f. i). William Richard Foyle (1885-1963), co-founder of Foyles Bookshop, London; inscribed with his(?) price-code "TUO/-/-" (back pastedown, upper left), and with his gilt leather armorial bookplate "EX. LIBRIS / .W.A.FOYLE. / BEELEIGH / .ABBEY." (his home from 1943); by descent to his daughter Christina (1911-1999); Foyle sale at Christie's, 11 July 2000, lot 74; bought by Sam Fogg; with his stock no. "7143" (back pastedown, upper right corner). Acquired by the Huntington Library in January 2001.
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