- Published / Created:
- [circa 1450]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a58
- Image Count:
- 442
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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."
- Description:
- A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., 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)., Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., and Script: English book hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377 and Taussig, Anthony
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--England--Early works to 1800, Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Writs--England--Early works to 1800, and Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natura brevium and other works.
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