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ff. 1-6v: [Magna Carta with rubric, "Incipiunt provisiones de Ronnemede scilicet carta Regis Iohannis," 17 John] f. 7r-v: [Expositio vocabulorum; list of 34 Old English legal terms and their French meanings]. Rubric: Exposiciones verborum antiquorum anglicorum. Incipit: Munthbreche, Trepas vers seignur; Burgbreche, Quite de forfeture de Citee depescer ... Explicit: Danegeld, Estre quit de doner ou ayder al tribut ke les Roys de Engleterre soleient doner a Danays e al Roy de Danemarche. ff. 8-23v, 24v-35v, 37-87v: [Statuta vetera] ff. 23v-24v: [Chapters of the Regard]: Rubric: Capitula foreste. Incipit: Videnda sunt assarta facta in foresta post principium secundi anni prime Coronationis domini Henrici Regis Tercii ... Explicit: vel aliquod ingenium aliud ad malefaciendum domino Regi de feris suis. f. 36-36v: [Chapters on Frankpledge, added in 15th c.]: Incipit: Hec sunt capitula que inqueri debent a capitalis franci plegii in singulis locis Anglie ubi homines sunt in decena scilicet bis per annum in festo sancti Michaelis et Pasche. Et de hoc etiam primo iuratus iurare quod verum dicet de capitalis que ab eo exiguntur ex parte domini Regis et quod pro nullo dimittet quando verum dicet. Si omnes libere tenentes [?] summoniti fuerint. Explicit: Si aliqua via vel legalis Semita sit obstructa vel consternata vel levata contra libertatem domini et quis est ille qui hoc fecit. [f. 36v blank]. Collection of legal statutes including the Magna Carta, the Statuta vetera and the Chapters of the Regard, written in England towards the end of the thirteenth century; the text contains the statute of Exeter (1286) in the main hand and Quia emptores (1290) added by a second hand. Span folios: ff. 1-87v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-4 5(ff. 33-36) 6 7¹ 8-10 11¹(-9). Catchwords in inner lower margin, some in red ink frames; 32 long lines, ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines to the written space, with additional single rules in the inner and outer margins, and with additional double rules in the upper and lower margins. Written in an anglicana script, with brief texts on ff. 32v, 36 and 82v added in other hands. Decoration: 5- and 4-line parted red and blue initials with flourishing and infilling in whorl designs in both colors; 4- to 2-line initials alternating red and blue with infilling and flourishing of the other color; paragraph marks alternating red and blue.Running headlines added in 15th cent.; chapter numbers in the hand of the scribe and by later hands, some correcting the first numbers. Later corrections to the text in the statutes of Westminster I, II and Gloucester. Evidence of fore edge tabs once sewn to upper corners of leaves. Early modern foliation in ink in the lower right corner of the recto, frequently cropped. 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). Bound in 18th century English tan calf; rebacked; gilt edges. HM 25782. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Statutes--England--Early works to 1800 Law--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800 Forests and forestry--England--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
An allusion to the manor of Nasby in Northamptonshire in the text of the statute of Westminster II (f. 66v) seems to refer to the legal struggles of Isabella de Fortibus (1237-93) regarding those lands. On f. 32v, the will of Gylbart Forman of Rodwell, Yorkshire dated 21 May 1500. On f. 1, 18th[?] c., "No. 84 JP." Bookplate on front pastedown of Lowther, possibly of the earls of Lonsdale.
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