Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes
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Description
- Title
- Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes
- Published / Created
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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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
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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.
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. - Provenance
- Purchased from Malcolm Kennedy with the anonymous gift of a Yale undergraduate in 1932.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 214 + vi : 120 x 80 (81 x 49) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 60
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Great Britain.
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Anglo-Norman literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Law
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Anglo-Norman literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Law > Great Britain
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Registrum Brevium; Novae Narrationes. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9800864
- Object ID (OID)
- 10267668
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