Imprint on front wrapper: Lecène, Oudin et Cie., Théodore de Banville -- Sully-Prudhomme -- François Coppée -- Edouard Grenier -- Madame Adam -- Madame Alphonse Daudet -- Ernest Renan -- Ferdinand Brunetière -- Emile Zola -- Guy de Maupassant -- J.-K. Huysmans -- George Ohnet., and Thomas Hardy's copy. Bookplate: From the library of Thomas Hardy, O.M., Max Gate. Paperbound.
Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481 West, William, fl. 1568-1594
Published / Created:
1617
Call Number:
Osborn pb106
Image Count:
516
Alternative Title:
Tenures
Description:
13 x 8 cm., inlaid and interleaved to 24 x 17 cm. with copious manuscript notes, includes original blank leaves R5-6 at end., Imperfect: leaves 21 and 22 wanting., and In Law French.
Publisher:
Imprinted [by Adam Islip?] for the Companie of Stationers,
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800 and Real property--England--Early works to 1800
Montfaucon writes to Baluze (in exile) about the state of printing business in Paris and with general news of "la republique des lettres". He notes volumes recently published or in press, including: Lodovico Antonio Muratori’s Anecdota Graeca, Origen’s Hexapla, and Jean Mabillon’s Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti.
Manuscript, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century.
Description:
Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century)., Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar., On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century., and The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be."