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Description
ff. 1-8v. [Register of Writs; beginning with a writ of right dated 26 November, 25 Henry [VI], 1447 brought by John Shirland against William Asthill for a messuage in "N.," and ending defectively with a Recordari addressed to the council of Dover castle]. Title supplied by cataloger. Eight leaves from a Register of writs written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-8v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁸, with a catchword on f. 8. 39 long lines, ruled in ink with an additional set of double rules in the 3 outer margins. Written in a secretary script with anglicana forms. Decoration: 8-line gold initial on a particolored blue and maroon ground with white patterning; from the initial, a black ink spray with green leaves and gold trefoils; alternating red and blue paragraph marks. Running headline on all leaves, "capitulum primum." Contemporary foliation, i-viii. 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 19th century Middle Hill blue pasteboards. HM 15242. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Writs--England--Early works to 1800 Writs England 15th century. (aat) Detached leaves. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
In the lower margin of f. 1, in a textura hand in blue ink with a red initial, the name "Folbery," possibly the Robert Folbery/Fulberry of Newcastle (1420-85) admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1443-44 (see J. C. Wedgwood and A. D. Holt, History of Parliament, Biographies. . . 1439-1509 (London 1936) 343). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his n. 11002. Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 24 June 1935, lot 250, at that time bound with a fragment of a year book, now shelved separately as HM 15241.
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