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Register of writs : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-96v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right dated 12 February, 33 Edward [I], 1307, brought by John de Cawod against William de Wystowe for a messuage in Nottingham; no running headlines or chapter divisions; leaves apparently missing after ff. 88 and 96 with loss of text.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1300 and 1325]
Call number: mssEL 35 B 54
Provenance: Pressmarks of the Bridgewater Library, "6107" and "35 B 54," on labels glued to the outer margin of f. 1.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 147-153 x 215-220 mm
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Register of writs : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-104v: [Register of writs; beginning defectively in the section on trespass and ending defectively in the section on writs of attaint; at least 7 quires missing with loss of text at the beginning (2 quires), after f. 56 (3 quires), f. 64 (1 quire), f. 72 (1 quire) and an unknown amount at the end].

mssHM 45147

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

[Register Brevium]

Manuscripts

Collection of writs from the fifth year of the reign of Henry IV (1402) to the thirty-eighth year of Henri VI (1460). It also contains additions from the 16th century, including the alphabetical index. Subjects of writs include lands and manors held by various men from the King; instructions to the King's bailiffs; tenancies and inheritances; and ecclesiastical holdings and prebendaries. In the early 16th century, the contents list, alphabetical index and eight new sections (ff. 33-40, 65-88, 315-44, 358, 359, 400-09) were added in a more recent hand (by Bishop Richard Nix?). Further additions at ends of book include oath of the master of chancery, in French (f. II), a list of charges payable by Genoese and other foreign merchants of chancery, in French (ff. 404v-405), the coronation oath sworn by medieval English kings (f. 410), a short Middle English tract opening, "All writtez of Couenaunt ..." (f. IIv), and two copies of formulas in the name of "Bysshopryk of C" renouncing "all wordys comprised in the Popes Bull made vnto me" and instead promising loyalty to "the kyng our sovreign lord" (f. 404r). ff. i-ii. Table of contents, headed ""Kalendare."". f. ii recto-verso. Oath of the Master in Chancery. Incipit: Sacramento unius magistrorum de cancellarie domini regis. Lang: Anglo-Norman. ff. iii - xxxii verso; f. xxxiii recto-verso blank. Alphabetical index. The material indexes the main run of the codex, i.e. the writs copied on ff. 1-410v. ff. 1-410v. Royal writs. Incipit: [H]enricus dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus hibernie Ballivis suis de N. salutem. Precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis I. de C. de uno mesuagio cum pertinentiis in M. quod clamat tenere de nobis. English.

mssHM 81170

Statutes and other legal writings : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 6-15v, 16-89v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. On ff. 1-5v, preliminary matter. ff. 15v-16. Sententia lata super cartas. Incipit: En le noun del pier del fyz e del seynt espiryt amen. Cum nostre seignur le Roi al honur de deu e de seynt eglise e al comun profist de sun Reaum a touz lours les choses desus escrytes, Nous Roberd Erceveske de Canterbyry et primas de tut Engletere amovescoms un foyz deus foyz e troys foyz puys que la brefte del temps plus loynge demure. Explicit: e de touz les sacramentes de seynt eglise enseveroms fiat fiat amen. Rubric: Incipit sentencia lata super cartas. French. ff. 89v-100. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres sive circa plures tenentes pro indiviso. Explicit: et sic procedere debent alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Iudicium Essoniorum. Rubric: Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 116-42. ff. 100-107. Modus componendi brevia. Incipit: Cum sit necessarium conquerentibus in Curia domini Regis ut sibi in suis casibus congruum exibeatur remedium. Explicit: Licet antecessor conquerentis de pastura illa fuerit disseysitus. Explicit modus componendi Brevia. Rubric: Modus componendi Brevia. Latin. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 143-59, here ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 107-113v. Summa de bastardia. Incipit: Nota quod si bastardus se clamando legitimum heredem. Explicit: quamvis uxor infantis obierit dum fuerit in custodia. Nota si un hom claym par meyme la descent par bref de possessioun l'autre mette encuntre ly q'il est bastard qe unkes sun pier esposa sa mere l'enqueste deyt estre prys en la curt le Roi. Explicit Bastardia. Rubric: Sequitur Summa de Bastardia. Latin. See Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 1 and n. 3. ff. 113v-125v; ff. 125v-127v blank. Hengham Parva. Incipit: Notandum quod quinque sunt essonia. Prima de ultra mare, Secundum de terra sancta. Explicit: Quia nichil tam naturale est quam unumquisque dissolvi eo genere quo est ligatum. Explicit parvum hyngham. Rubric: Sequitur parvum hyngham. Latin. On ff. 125v-126, added material. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 51-71; for the passage that begins"Homagium est iuris vinculum" see G. E. Woodbine, ed., Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, trans. and with notes by S. E. Thorne (Harvard University Press and the Selden Society 1968-77) 2:228. ff. 128-195v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right, dated 20 Edward [I], 1291/92, with names of persons by initial only.

Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-170v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Full calendar; ff. 7-28v: Pericopes of the Gospels, followed by the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata (masculine forms); ff. 29-88v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 89-96: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 96v-101v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 102-118: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 118v-160v: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 161-170v: Suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Lawrence, Eustachius, Fiacre, Nicholas, Claude, Anthony abbot, Maurus, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Genevieve.

mssHM 1168

Legenda aurea : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-163v: [Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea]: Rubric: De sancto andrea apostolo. Incipit: Andreas et quidam alii discipuli ... Explicit: et alienum hunc vultum a te conffugabo et proprium coram omnibus reddam [catchword:] hoc tamen nullo//.; [the last folio, f. 164r-v, was misbound in its present position, and should be the first: According to the roman-numbered Lives in the Graesse edition, this manuscript is arranged: 1-18; text missing between ff. 21-22: end of De Sancto Felice, De Sancto Marcello and beginning of De Sancto Antonio; 22-30; text missing between ff. 29-30: De Septuagesima and beginning of De Quinquagesima; 34; text missing between ff. 30-31: end of De Ieiuniis, De Sancto Ignatio and the beginning of De Purificatione BVM; 38; text missing between ff. 33-34: end of De Sancto Agatha, De Sancto Vedasto, De Sancto Amando and the beginning of De Sancto Valentino; 43-45; text missing between ff. 38-39: end of De Sancto Gregorio, De Sancto Longino, De Sancto Sophia and beginning of De Sancto Benedicto; 50-51; De Sancto Timotheo, 52, not copied in this manuscript; 53-54; text missing between ff. 46-47: end of De Sancto Secundo and beginning of De Sancta Maria Aegyptiaca; 57-58; text missing between ff. 50-51: end of De Sancto Marco Evangelista, De Sancto Marcellino, De Sancto Vitali and beginning of De Sancto Petro Martire; De Sancto Fabiano, 64, not copied in this manuscript; 65; De Sancta Apollonia, 66, not copied in this manuscript; 67-70; De Sancto Bonifacio, 71, not copied in this manuscript; 72-82; text missing between ff. 66-67: end of De Sancto Quirico, De Sancta Maria and beginning of De Sanctis Gervasio et Prothasio; 86-89; text missing between ff. 75-76: end of De Sancto Paulo, De Septem Fratribus, and beginning of De Sancta Theodora; 93-101; text missing between ff. 86-87: end of De Sanctis Nazario et Celso, De Sancto Felice Papa, De Sanctis Simplicio et Faustino, De Sancta Martha, De Sanctis Abdon et Sennen and beginning of De Sancto Germano; 108-131; 134; text missing between ff. 122-123: end of De Sanctis Gorgonio et Dorotheo and beginning of De Sanctis Protho et Jacincto; 137-138; 62 (De Virgine Anthiochena); 132 (De Sanctis Cornelio et Cypriano); 139; 133 (De Sancto Lamberto), 140-170].

mssHM 3027

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