Manuscript on paper, incomplete, containing a catalogue of acts of Parliament from approximately 1488 to 1610 ("septimo Jacobi Reg."). Formerly part of a larger volume; the leaves are numbered 280-370
Description:
In English., Script: secretary script., and Binding: disbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and England
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law
Description:
In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Title from incipit., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Script: Gothic Textura., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., and Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Manuscript, on paper, probably in the hand of William Elstob, containing a transcription of the Anglo-Saxon legal text known as Judex and readings for the text of several Anglo-Saxon law codes
Description:
In Old English and Latin., Collation note in Latin dated September 4, 1714 bears the initials G.E. (Gulielmus--William--Elstob) and E.E. (Elizabeth Elstob)., and This manuscript was probably part of William Elstob's projected editon of Anglo-Saxon legal manuscripts.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756. and Elstob, William, 1673-1715.
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, apparently from a collection of law reports (perhaps a Year-book). Actions mentioned include cases of Dower and Quare impedit
Description:
In Law French (Anglo-Norman)., Layout: single columns of 61-62 lines each., and Script: cursive legal script with some anglicana features.
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., and Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377. and Taussig, Anthony.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering)., A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7., Layout: single column, 16-19 lines., Script: contemporary Anglicana hand., Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon., and Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings
Description:
In Law French and Latin., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Script: several secretary scripts., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
