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1. Catalogue of Parliamentary acts
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1610?]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 26
- Container / Volume:
- File (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 182
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, incomplete, containing a catalogue of acts of Parliament from approximately 1488 to 1610 ("septimo Jacobi Reg."). Formerly part of a larger volume; the leaves are numbered 280-370
- Description:
- In English., Script: secretary script., and Binding: disbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Renaissance, Law, and Session laws
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Catalogue of Parliamentary acts
2. De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
- Creator:
- Bracton, Henry de, -1268
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa53
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law
- Description:
- In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Title from incipit., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Script: Gothic Textura., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., and Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bracton, Henry de, -1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
- Subject (Topic):
- Law and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
3. Fragmentum hoc ad leges Alfredi pertinens....
- Creator:
- Elstob, William, 1673-1715
- Published / Created:
- 1711-1714.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 129
- Image Count:
- 134
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, probably in the hand of William Elstob, containing a transcription of the Anglo-Saxon legal text known as Judex and readings for the text of several Anglo-Saxon law codes
- Description:
- In Old English and Latin., Collation note in Latin dated September 4, 1714 bears the initials G.E. (Gulielmus--William--Elstob) and E.E. (Elizabeth Elstob)., and This manuscript was probably part of William Elstob's projected editon of Anglo-Saxon legal manuscripts.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756. and Elstob, William, 1673-1715.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Law, Anglo-Saxon, and Law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fragmentum hoc ad leges Alfredi pertinens....
4. Law report (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1460-1480]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 138
- Container / Volume:
- File (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, apparently from a collection of law reports (perhaps a Year-book). Actions mentioned include cases of Dower and Quare impedit
- Description:
- In Law French (Anglo-Norman)., Layout: single columns of 61-62 lines each., and Script: cursive legal script with some anglicana features.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Law report (fragment).
5. Natura brevium and other works
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a58
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 442
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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:
- 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)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Script: English book hands., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., and Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377. and Taussig, Anthony.
- Subject (Topic):
- Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Writs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natura brevium and other works
6. Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 60
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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:
- In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., 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., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., and 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes
7. Statuta vetera
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1399]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a57
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 408
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statuta vetera
8. Statutes of England from 1 Edward III to 4 Henry VI.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1427]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 41
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 549
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings
- Description:
- In Law French and Latin., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Script: several secretary scripts., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- England. Parliament.
- Subject (Topic):
- Feudal law, Law, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statutes of England from 1 Edward III to 4 Henry VI.
