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Registrum brevium and other legal texts (MS M.812).

Accession number
MS M.812
Object title
Registrum brevium and other legal texts (MS M.812).
Display Date
between 1275 and 1320.
Created
England, between 1275 and 1320.
Binding
19th-century English green morocco gilt with the Cholmondeley crest.
Description
133 leaves (1 column, 33 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Richard Haworth of Lower Darwen, d. 1603 (inscription on fol. 2: Pertinet Ri. Haworth, motto: spes mea christus; Cholmondeley family (?); purchased from Philip Brooks in 1941.
Notes
Ms. legal texts; written and illuminated in England in the late 13th and/or early 14th century.
Texts: Registrum brevium (fol. 1-64); Magna Carta and other statutes of the realm (fol. 66-132v).
Decoration: 2 historiated initals; marginal drawings and drolleries, some figured, some text referent.
Script
English cursive documentary script
Language
Latin and Middle French
Century
Classification