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Fragment from a year book : [manuscript]

Description: ff. 1-4v. [Year book]: Fragment of a year book containing assizes of novel disseisin, including the following names of speakers as they occur in the text: Gilbert de Toutheby (narrator by 1293, d. by 1328); Robert de Malberthorpe (narrator by 1299, judge from 1320, d. by 1332); William Herle (narrator by 1300, judge by 1320); Edmund de Passelewe (narrator by 1299, Baron of the Exchequer by 1323); Nicholas de Warrewik (narrator by 1287, d. by 1311); Geoffrey de Hertilpole (narrator by 1291, d. ca. 1324); Gilbert of Roubury (judge of the king's bench 1295-1316, judge of the common bench 1316-1321); "Scrop," either Henry (narrator by 1292, judge from 1308, d. 1336) or Geoffrey (serjeant in 1309, judge from 1323, d. 1340); John de Cantebrigge (serjeant from 1309, judge from 1329, d. before June 1335); John de Wescote (narrator by 1300, d. after 1316); Henry le Spigurnel (narrator by 1291, d. 1328); John de Ingham (serjeant in 1309, d. after 1325); John de Stonore (serjeant from 1311, judge from 1320, d. 1354); "Bradford," perhaps John de Bradenstoke (narrator by 1293); Walter de Friskeney (narrator by 1293; judge from 1323, probably d. by 1328); John de Haverington (narrator by 1292); "Cave"; Roger de Scoter (narrator by 1291, Baron of the Exchequer in 1310, d. by 1312); "Cressing[ham]"; William de Kellaw (narrator by 1286, known until 1292); William Howard (narrator in 1293-94, judge from 1297, d. ca. 1308); William de Bereford (narrator by 1285, judge from 1292, d. 1326); Adam de Kyngeshemede (narrator by 1276, known until 1312); Ralph de Stalinburgh (narrator by 1294, known until 1301); John of Mettingham (judge of the common bench 1290-1301). The following names of parties appear: Mestre Thomas; Roger vs. John; Robert le Orfevre and his wife Joan vs. William Dewere; William de Norton vs. William de Haston; Robert Turry and his wife Beatrice vs. John de Coverelle; Robert de Stureye vs. James, Alice de T. and her son Geoffrey; Henry vs. Robert and Richard; John de Thornton vs. Robert de Holoynd; Renald son of Renald vs. Renald son of John and William de N.; John Benk vs. A. de N.; John son of Giles de Brewes; Thomas Corbridge archbishop of York (1300-04) vs. Davy de Kauode.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1300 and 1325]
Call number: mssHM 15241
Provenance: Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps; his n. 11002 in the lower margin of what is now f. 2. Acquired by the Huntington Library from Sotheby's, 24 June 1935, lot 250.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 163 x 227 mm
Associated people: Phillipps, Thomas, (1792-1872,)
Associated organizations: England.; Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Fragment from a cartulary : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-3: [Fragment from a cartulary; includes: William I, De subjectione Eboracensis archiepiscopi (1072); Stephen, De libertatibus ecclesie Anglie (1136); John, Ut libere sint electiones totius anglie (1214); John, Magna Carta (1215)] [f. 3v, blank].

mssHM 45146

Fragment from a Book of Hours : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-3v: [Three non-consecutive leaves, respectively from the Office of the Dead, from the Hours of the Virgin, and from the Short Hours of the Cross]

mssHM 47544

Fragment from a Register of writs : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-8v. [Register of Writs; beginning with a writ of right dated 26 November, 25 Henry [VI], 1447 brought by John Shirland against William Asthill for a messuage in "N.," and ending defectively with a Recordari addressed to the council of Dover castle].

mssHM 15242

Fragment from the Decretals : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2: [Gregory IX, Decretals, with the gloss of Bernardus Parmensis]: Incipit: //procurator proposuit ex adverso quod cum olim ad petitionem patronorum ecclesie amoriensis ... Explicit: et correctio ex consuetudine potius habetur ut s. de electione dudum dic super hoc ut dixi s. e. cum satis//.

mssHM 46015

Fragment from a choir book : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2v: [Fragment of choir book; contains Common of Evangelists, beginning in vespers[?] and continuing into a section of matins; text not continuous].

mssHM 31544

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Piers Plowman : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-89v. [William Langland] Piers Plowman. Incipit: In a somere seyson whan softe was þe sonne/ y shop into shrobbis as y shepherde were. Explicit: And sende me hap and hele til ich haue peers ploughman/ And suthe he gradde after grace til ich gan awake. Hic explicit passus secundus de dobest. Explicit peeres plouheman scriptum per Thomam Dankastre. Rubric: Hic incipit Visio Willelmi de petro ploughman. English. IMEV 1459; C text, p group; see R. W. Chambers, "The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman in the Huntington Library and their Value for Fixing the Text of the Poem," HLB 8 (1935) 1-25; J. A. W. Bennett, "A New Collation of a Piers Plowman Manuscript (HM 137)," Medium Aevum 17 (1948) 21-31; T. D. Whitaker, ed., Visio Willi de Petro Plouhman (London 1813) from this manuscript; W. W. Skeat, ed., The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman by William Langland. EETS os 54 (London 1873) with this manuscript as the base text, described on pp. xix-xxiv; D. Pearsall, ed., Piers Plowman by William Langland: An Edition of the C-Text (London 1978) using HM 143 as the base manuscript.

Fragment from a year book : [manuscript]

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