England. Sovereign (1272-1307 : Edward I) England. Sovereign (1327-1377 : Edward III) Coggeshall Abbey, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 27186
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Description
membrane 1: [Four verses on the genealogies of the 3 Marys]: Incipit: Anna tribus Ioachim Salome Cleophas Marias/ Tres parit has dicunt [sic] Ioseph Alpheus Zebedeus. membranes 1-6: [Statute of Westminster II, 13 Edward I, ending"... si dimissio facta fuerit antecessori iaceat visus sicut prius fieri consuevit"]. membrane 1 dorse: [Statute of Winchester, 13 Edward I]. membranes 1 dorse-3 dorse: [Notes on points of law in French]. membranes 3 dorse - 5 dorse: [Statute I, 14 Edward III]. Statutes written in England in the late thirteenth century; the last text (Statute 1, 14 Edward III) added in the middle of the fourteenth century. Span folios: 6 membranes, measuring ca. 76, 68, 71, 65, 66 and 25 cm. respectively. Support: Parchment. Layout: Catchwords in center of lower margin of each membrane (none on dorse). 424 lines on the front, 450 lines on the dorse, frame ruled in dry point. Written by 2 scribes in anglicana scripts: i, arts. 1-4; ii, art. 5. Contemporary note on the dorse,"Statuta regis Edwardi." 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). HM 27186. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Statutes--England--Early works to 1800 Scrolls (Information artifact) England 13th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Apparently belonged to the Cistercian house of Coggeshall (listed with a query by Ker, MLGB, p. 53): a seventeenth century note on the dorse,"Found in the Abbey of Coxall in Essex at the tyme of the dissolution." On the dorse in a modern hand,"134."
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