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f. ii: 19th century notes regarding the Bengough family. ff. 1-4v: chapter list to Bracton; f. 4v: a prayer, a note on herbs, verses about Tedaldus (pope Gregory X), a political prophecy in verse attributed to the chaplain of Roger le Brabazon (justice of King's Bench in 1296), verses about a pope Lucius. ff. 5-263: [Henry Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Anglie]: Rubric: Que sunt Regi necessaria. Incipit liber domini Henrici de Bracton. Incipit: In rege qui recte regit necessaria sunt duo hec, arma videlicet et leges ... Explicit: qui sunt ad fidem domini Regis sive inde preceptum habuerint sive non. Explicit liber Henrici de Bractoun de legibus et consuetudinibus Anglicanis. ff. 263-264: [Statutes, including the Statute for religious men; Extenta manerii; Assize of weights and measures; Assize of bread and ale]. ff. 264-265: [Ordinatio cartarum]: Incipit: Quam prona sunt estatis studia et quanto vivamus diucius tanto proniora et hec quare plurimi sunt contractus utpote conductiones emptiones venditiones obligationes ... Explicit: Ego A. de B. et heredes mei vel assignati totam terram predictam cum pertinentiis sicut prius dictum est prefacto C. de B. et cetera. Explicit ordinacio Cartarum. ff. 265-267v: [Statutes, including a note on weights and measures; the View of frankpledge; Magna Carta; verses; a copy of a writ of entry brought by William of Sparesholte against Gerald de Insula dated at Winchester, 21 September in the year of "our" reign 13; the Versus Bruti ad Dianam and its pendant Responsio Diane; the Carta de foresta ending defectively]. Title supplied by cataloger. Henry de Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae along with several leaves containing a number of Statutes written in England in the early fourteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-267v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁴ 2-22¹² 23¹²(-12 with loss of text). Catchwords in inner lower margin. Leaf signatures, where visible, different in each quire, using horizontal or vertical slashes, letters or roman numerals written in lead, red ink or turquoise, and placed at various positions in the lower margin. 2 columns of 46 lines (3 columns of 51 lines in the chapter list), ruled in lead, 3 lines between the columns; round prick marks in the 4 corners of the written space; in quire 2, the 3 lines between columns pricked with slash marks on either side of a round prick mark. Written in an anglicana script; the chapter list and the texts on f. 267r-v by a second hand, and the short texts on f. 4v by a third scribe. Decoration: 3- and 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; rubrics in red, not completed on ff. 228-234, 254v-263. Considerable marginalia in several contemporary and later hands. Narrow strips of parchment in the outer margins of ff. 74, 101, 190, 195 slashed free on 3 sides to be twisted into fore edge tabs, now torn away except on f. 190. 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 1973 in calf with 2 fore edge clasps; previous binding in eighteenth century parchment, spine gilt, green morocco title label. HM 31911. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Law--England--Early works to 1800 Statutes--England--Early works to 1800 Marginalia (Annotations) 14th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
On f. 267v, 14th century ownership note, "P. bonar[...?]." According to the Sotheby catalogue description, the name "W. Mildmay" (perhaps Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer, d. 1589) was written on a detached flyleaf, no longer with the volume. Owned by George Bengough of Bristol in 1847; his notes on ff. ii-iv.
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