Carta de foresta

Description

Title: Carta de foresta
Published / Created: [ca. 1580]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper containing a collection of hunting and forestry laws
Description: In English.
Watermark: similar to Briquet 12781.
The text includes: 1) Table of Contents of art. 2, referring to the early foliation. 2) A collection of hunting and forestry laws similar to those published by John Manwood, A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest (London, 1592) and A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest ... (London, 1598). 3) Two extracts. (1) De placito forestarum. B. Thorpe, ed., Ancient Laws and Institutions of England ( London, 1840), p. 228; (2) Dialogus de Scaccario, W. Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (Oxford, 1913), pp. 221-222. 4) Consuetudines et assisa de foresta. 5) Ordinatio forestae.
Script: written in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), often difficult to read. Gothica Cursiva Antiquior is used as display script.
Binding: grey paper over pasteboard; on the spine a leather label with gold-tooled inscription: "FOREST / LAWS / MS. / CIRCA /1580".
Provenance: Gift of Francis P. Garvan (transferred from the Sterling Library of Yale University, Department of Manuscripts and Archives, 3 October 1979).
Extent: ff. 67 : 300 x 210 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: 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): Forestry law and legislation
Manuscripts, Medieval
Politics and government
Subjects: Forestry law and legislation
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.