Detail View: Medieval Collection: Formula of proceedings at a manorial court

Image Number: 
JRL0906664dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 288
Previous Accession Number: 
R39329
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Formula of proceedings at a manorial court
Parent Work Title: 
Legal Commonplace Book
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Littleton, Tenures and other pieces in English, French and Latin
Date Created: 
15th century [1479?]
Page: 
21r
Image Sequence Number: 
021r
Description: 
Formulary proceedings at a court leet in Latin and English. The section begins at the top of the folio at 'Modus qualiter Balliuus vel Bedellus qui seruiet Curiam debet vocare assisam panis et seruicie quando Curia cum visu totaliter finitur..'. The written space is c. 175 x 100 mm and the script a mixture of secretary and anglicana.
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Law, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject: 
Law, Medieval
Subject: 
Manorial courts
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
Item Height: 
224 mm
Item Width: 
154 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Willoughby, John (signature with flourish on final folio).
Provenance: 
Wolff, John (calligraphic inscription Liber Johannis Wolff on folio 23).
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.42.
References: 
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 423-24. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Cost: 
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £10.00 in July 1915.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-02-11
Multi Page Number: 
225
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-05
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB