Carta de foresta

Description

Title: Carta de foresta
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a collection of laws governing hunting and forestry
Description: In Latin, with passages in English and French.
Script: Arts. 4-14 written in a neat chancery script with Anglicana influence; arts. 1 and 15 in similar, but less elegant hands; arts. 2-3 are in gothic textura.
Plain initial, in red, with crude ink penwork flourishes on f. 1v; KL monograms and portions of calendar also on red.
Some stains on ff. 2r-7v render text illegible.
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rebinding in quarter pigskin, tanned, not tawed, with a strap and pin fastening. The oak boards, cambered on all four outer edges and with rectangular pegs, are probably contemporary with the manuscript. Front pastedown composed of a small fragment of prayers in Latin (15th century).
Provenance: Gift of David Wagstaff in 1944.
Extent: ff. ii + 68 : 115 x 82 (70 x 47) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Forests and forestry
Hunting
Manuscripts, Medieval
Politics and government
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Hunting > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1066-1485
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Carta de Foresta. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.