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Add MS 24066
- Record Id:
- 032-002031357
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031357
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0003a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064919042.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24066
- Title:
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Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts
- Scope & Content:
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This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill) and the earliest copy of the first version of the Leges Edwardi Confessoris (The Laws of King Edward the Confessor). These two works were written by the same scribe around 1190.
Contents:
ff. 5r-73v: Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae commonly attributed to Ranulf of Glanvill (b. 1112, d. 1190), Chief Justiciar of England.
ff. 74r-212v: The inspeximus of Magna Carta of 1300 by King Edward I and a collection of the Statutes of England down to 1340.
ff. 213r-219r: Leges Edwardi Confessoris.
ff. 219r-220r: The Statute of Merton and Assisa Panis (The Assize of Bread).
ff. 220v: Sixteen anonymous rhyming trochaic verses lamenting legal changes.
[ff. 1v, 3r-3v, 4v are blank].
Decoration:
Numerous large decorated initials, some with extensive pen-flourishing in red, green and blue. Numerous small decorated initials with extensive pen-flourishing in red, green and blue. Numerous decorated letter descenders with arabesque motifs on the lowest line, some with grotesque figures (ff. 5r-73v). Numerous marginal doodles in red ink. Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031357
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002031357
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100064919042.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1185
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- c 1190-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 180 x 130 mm (text space: 130 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 220 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. 4 has been bound upside down.
Script: Protogothic (ff. 5r-73v, 213r-219r); Gothic (ff. 74r-212v, 219r-220r).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1877.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
An unknown 13th-century owner: inscribed with his or her incipit and note: ‘Incipit tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus…’ (f. 4r).
An unknown 15th-century owner: added a title and tituli in a 15th-century hand (ff. 1r, 2r-v).
Joseph Lilly (b. 1804, d. 1870), London bookseller: his sale of 9 March 1861, lot 9 ([f.4]recto); purchased from him by the British Museum for £5.5.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1877), II, pp. 4-5.
Felix Liebermann, Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Halle: Niemeyer, 1903-16), I (1903), p. xviii.
The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill, ed. by George Derek Gordon Hall (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), pp. lvii, lxviii (n. 2).
Bruce R. O’Brien, God's Peace and King's Peace: the Laws of Edward the Confessor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 137-38.
John Hudson, ‘L’écrit, les Archives et le Droit en Angleterre (IXe-XIIe siècle)’, Revue Historique, 637 (2006), 3-35 (p. 31).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.