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., and 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.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law--Great Britain, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Dedication to Pius IV in Latin; all other text in Italian., Engraved title page; architectural border with portrait of Vignola., First issued in 1562; second issue 1563? with the thirty-two plates and without date or place of publication., Imperfect: ownership inscription rubbed from title page. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., and Three states of the first edition exist. None have publication dates or place; The first is the dedication copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence; the second state has a five line printed addition on the preface leaf, and additional printed annotations on plates 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 24 and 25; the third state has an additional 5 plates. Cf. Walcher Casotti.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800 and Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800