Carta de foresta[ca. 1580]engManuscript on paper containing a collection of hunting and forestry lawsIn English.Watermark: similar to Briquet 12781.The text includes: 1) Table of Contents of art. 2, referring to the early foliation. 2) A collection of hunting and forestry laws similar to those published by John Manwood, A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest (London, 1592) and A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest ... (London, 1598). 3) Two extracts. (1) De placito forestarum. B. Thorpe, ed., Ancient Laws and Institutions of England ( London, 1840), p. 228; (2) Dialogus de Scaccario, W. Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (Oxford, 1913), pp. 221-222. 4) Consuetudines et assisa de foresta. 5) Ordinatio forestae.Script: written in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), often difficult to read. Gothica Cursiva Antiquior is used as display script.Binding: grey paper over pasteboard; on the spine a leather label with gold-tooled inscription: "FOREST / LAWS / MS. / CIRCA /1580".