Natura brevium and other works

Description

Title: Natura brevium and other works
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura Brevium; the text of The Old Tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
Description: In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420.
Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering).
A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34.
Script: English book hands.
Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue.
Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
Provenance: Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012.
Extent: ff. 420 : 193 x 46 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): England
Great Britain
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377.
Taussig, Anthony.
Subject (Topic): Law
Manuscripts, Medieval
Writs
Subjects: Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377
Taussig, Anthony
Law > England > Early works to 1800
Law > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Writs > England > Early works to 1800
Writs > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Natura brevium and Other Works. Anthony Taussig Collection of Legal Manuscripts, James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.