Shelfmark
MS 176
Author
Uniform title
[De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae]
Title
H. de Bracton. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Henrici de Bracton Liber de legibus Angliae
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1275 and ca. 1325.
Physical description
1 volume (i, 304, i leaves, foliated i-xi, 1-295) : parchment, initials ; 28.5 x 20.5 cm.
Note
Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinis Angliae; see edition by G. E. Woodbine, Yale University Press 1915-1942, in four volumes including a comparative study of manuscripts in v. 1.
Note
Book 2, f. 53; book 3, f. 79v; book [4], f. 199; book [5], f. 258. The points at which books 4 and 5 begin are only marked by headings of the 16th century.
Note
Written in two stages; ff. 2-97 column 1 are in an earlier hand than the rest.
Note
Leaf 1 (recto and verso) is in the later hand and not conjugate with f. 12 which has no doubt been supplied; the last lines of the verso text are squeezed in.
Note
The text written by the earlier hand is corrected and added to by the later hand in the margins, and with longer additions on slips attached to ff. 7, 9, 11, 12 and 14v; only these longer additions are noted by Woodbine, v. 1 p. 374-7.
Note
The first paragraph on f. 34, "De heredibus qui succedunt ... ut liquere poterit" is in the later hand over an erasure.
Note
Leaves ii-xi verso, in the later hand, contain a table of titles "Que sunt Regi necessaria 'fo primo' ... priuilegium actoris 'cclxxxix'", with leaf numbers added later; see Ker as cited below for page references to Woodbine's edition.
Note
On f. 6 the corrector has changed "Cipewik" to "Schipewich".
Note
List of headings on a slip attached to f. 170v; a running title covers book 1 only.
Note
Foliated i-xi, 1-295.
Note
An incorrect medieval foliation begins with "fo. 1" on f. 1 and ends with "fo. cclxxxix" on f. 294; the foliator wrote "lxxxxx" at f. 100 and "c" at f. 101, and made similar errors at ff. 201-2, 24203 and 253-4.
Note
Written space: 235 x 165 mm, and on ff. 2-97 (scribe 1), ca. 240 x 170 mm.
Note
Written in 2 columns and on ff. ii-xi, in three columns, of 46-47 lines by scribe 1 (more on ff. 31-33v) and of 42-43 lines by scribe 2.
Note
Vertical ruling between columns with 3 lines by scribe 1 and 2 lines by scribe 2; the ruling of f. 93 by scribe 1 adapted to suit scribe 2 who preferred wide space between column (13 mm rather than 9 mm).
Note
Collation of ff. ii-xi, 1-294: 1¹⁰ 2¹² wants 1, supplied by scribe 2 (f. 1) 3¹² 4¹⁴ + a bifolium after 9 (ff. 34, 35) 5-25¹² 26 two (ff. 293-4); also six attached slips as described above.
Note
Written in anglicana by two scribes (see above), the earlier in a current business hand of a slightly formal kind and the later in a book-hand which is only occasionally current.
Note
Initials of four types: (1) on f. 1, an 18-line I in blue patterned in white, with pink ad gold ornament prolonged into the margins; (2) on ff. 53 and 79v, 4-line and 3-line, blue patterned in white with red ornament; (3) 2-line, blue or red; (4) on ff. ii-xi, as type 3 but 1-line. All type 3 initials appear to be of one date, after scribe 2 had written his portion.
Note
Secundo folio: precipit (f. 2) or primus partus (f. iii).
Note
19th century binding.
Note
Written in England.
Note
The name "Lewes Imery de Greys [Inn]", 16th century, can be read in UV light on f. 294v. Perhaps a misreading of Lewis Montgomery according to Sir John Baker, The men of court 1440 to 1550: a prosopography of the Inns of Court and Chancery and the Courts of Law (Selden Society Publications Supplementary Series, v. 18) s.v. Imery, Lewis.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.a.5.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 771-2
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 176
Citation/references note
Not in CMA
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 176
Provenance
Belonged to "Lewes Imery" of Gray's Inn in the 16th century; identified possibly with Lewis Montgomery of Gray's Inn.
Binding
19th century English binding.
Subject
Bracton, Henry de, ? - -1268 Manuscripts.
Subject
Law Great Britain
Added entry--name
Montgomery, Lewis, ? - d. ca. 1568 former owner.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50135