Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes.

Description

Title: Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes.
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1350]
Publication Place: England,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham.
Description: Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time.
In Latin and Anglo-Norman.
Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible.
Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe.
Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout.
Extent: ff. ii + 214 + vi : parchment ; 120 x 80 (81 x 49) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Partially digitized
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Latin

Format: still image
Genre: Decorated initials
Illuminated manuscripts
Rubrics
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Anglo-Norman literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Law--Great Britain
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Registrum Brevium; Novae Narrationes. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. and Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 60.

Orbis Record: 9800864
OID: 10267668
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms060.htm