Carta de foresta

Description

Title: Carta de foresta
Published / Created: 1562.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Carta de foresta, a collection of hunting and forestry laws. With a collection of extracts, in Latin, all concerning laws of forestry
Description: In English.
Watermarks: unidentified pot.
Script: Written in a well formed chancery hand by a single scribe.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Endleaves reinforced with vellum, two leaves originally pasted to each board. Sewn on five single, tawed skin thongs laced into paste boards rounded on the outside of the spine edge. Beaded endbands sewn on leather or cane cores but not laced to boards. The spine is square, with traces of adhesive. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with a triple line border and a small central ornament. Two ribbon fastenings, now wanting. Leather broken at joint, sewing reinforced.
Provenance: Purchased from H. P. Kraus by David Wagstaff. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1944.
Extent: ff. i + xiv + 72 + xvi + 1 : 300 x 215 (215 x 128) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance England 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
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 > 1558-1603
England > 16th 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.