<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Natura brevium and other works</dc:title><dc:date>[ca. 1450]</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc:language>frm</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura Brevium; the text of The Old Tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."</dc:description><dc:description>In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420.</dc:description><dc:description>Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering).</dc:description><dc:description>A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: English book hands.</dc:description><dc:description>Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>