Abbreviated versions. Includes an Anglo-Norman version of the 1225 reissue of Magna Carta.
Language Note
In Anglo-Norman, with one exception; many are translations from Latin.
Note
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger. Table of contents at beginning. Collation: Leaves i + 213 (leaves numbered 2-212; unnumbered leaf between leaves 124 and 125); 1^12, 2^16, 3^16(-3), 4^16, 5^16(-1), 6-10^16, 10^16, 11^16(+1), 12^6, 13^10(-1), 14^16, 15^14(-1); stubs between leaves 39 and 40, 71 and 72, 212 and 213; leaves 176 and 184 cut affecting text; horizontal catchwords at end of each quire; very few annotations and one manicule (leaf 196v). Layout: Written in 18-21 long lines (dimensions of written space: 90 x 58 mm); below line; frame-ruled; prickings in outer margin; headings on top of each page; pen flourishes of letters on last line of page. Script: Written in Anglicana script. Decoration: Simple blue, red and gold borders on leave 2-12v. Decoration: Gold initials with red and blue ink flourishes on leaves 14r, 31v, 54r, 59r, 86v, 144r, 152r, 161v, 166v, 185r, and 186v. Decoration: Pen flourished initials in red and blue ink throughout. Decoration: Red and blue initials and highlights throughout. Origin: Written in English in beginning of 14th century. Notes in various later hands on leaf 1. Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.256.
Binding information
Bound in original limp vellum covers; spine has been removed and quires resewn.
Provenance
Note on leaf 1v: Gift of John Gomme of Charley [?], December 3, 1821.
Source of acquisition
Acquired by Henry Clay Folger from E. Williams of Hove, May 1922.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014. Symbols of Honor. Opening: fol. 46v-47r. Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library 2015. The Age of Lawyers. Opening: 25v.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1073.1 Baker, John. English legal manuscripts, 33
