Manuscript fragment on parchment from an illuminated English psalter
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: 20 small initials in alternating gold and blue ink with contrasting red and blue marginal penwork. Numerous line fillers in red and blue ink, including several "smiling fish" fillers.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a calendar from a Benedictine psalter. The calendar, which is missing the leaf for November and December, contains several entries from the Use of Rheims, including the feasts of Saints Rigobert, Arnulf and Nichasius
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textura semi-quadrata., Decoration: Rubricated., Format: single columns of 33 lines., and Annotations and additions in several contemporary and near-contemporary hands.
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, from a Quadruplex Psalter, in which the text of each page is arranged in four precisely parallel columns, each containing a different version of the text, with the intention of enabling textual comparison and criticism. Fragment 1 contains portions of Psalms 31 and 32; fragment 2 contains portions of Psalms 38 and 39.
Description:
In Latin and transliterated Greek., Layout: originally 4 columns of 40 lines each., Script:pregothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Small and larger initials also in red ink.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering)., A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7., Layout: single column, 16-19 lines., Script: contemporary Anglicana hand., Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon., and Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty
Manuscript, on paper, in a single scribal hand, of this treatise on the administrative questions of communal ownership and inheritance raised by the Franciscan vow of poverty
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Bartolo of Sassoferrato (1313-1357), also known as Bartolus de Saxoferrato, was a prominent Italian legal scholar who taught in severa northern Italian universities and wrote many influential treatises, including several pertaining to the administrative and judicial problems raised by the rule of poverty of the Franciscan order., In Latin., Layout: single column of 43 lines., Script: gothica cursiva., Binding: 19th-century marbled paper over pasteboards., and Guards from fragments of unidentified Hebrew manuscript on parchment.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an unidentified chronicle of Venetian history
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: not present. Spaces for capitals and rubrics left blank., and Bifolia later used as archival wrappers.