Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 420
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- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- Latin MS 420
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Laws of Ine
- Laws of Athelstan, I and II
- De officio episcopi
- De weregildis singularum personarum cum Anglis
- De eodem in Mercennorum laga
- Tƿelfhyndes hominis
- VII sunt dona sancti Spiritus
- De triplici iuramento
- De forfang
- Hoc est iudicium qualiter hundretum teneri debeat
- Hec sunt iudicia que sapientes Exonie
- Ego Æƿelstanus rex notifico uobis
- Epistola Cantensium episcoporum et tainorum
- Hoc consultum est quod episcopi et prepositii qui Lundoniensi
- De ordalio
- Insitutiones Ethelredi Regis. Hoc est consilium
- He sunt leges quas Æƿhelredus
- Tam longe debet esse
- Wealraf
- Aldretes hate et Cyrƿilegate
- Hec sunt verba pacis
- Hoc est consilium
- Hoc instituerunt Eƿelredus rex
- Quales debea[n]t esse iudices
- Institutiones Eadgari Regis. Hoc est institutum
- Hec est institutio secularis
- Hec pacis agenda que Alfredus et Godrun rex
- Si quis rectum
- Hoc est consilium
- Eadwardus rex mandat
- Eadwardus rex admonuit
- Eadwardus rex congregauit
- Hec est institutio quam Eadmundus
- Ego Eadmundus rex mando
- De iuramentis
- De sponsalibus
- De persolutione occisi
- Institutio Willelmi Regis
- De ueteri consuetudine promotionum
- Rectitudines singularum personarum
- Institutiones Henrici Regis
- Idem rex noster ita scripsit
- Henricus dei gracia...tunc temporis fecissent
- Treaty between Stephen and Henry II in 1153
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- Description
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- Extent:
ff. 52 (vi+42+iv) Leaf height: 200 mm, width: 145 mm.
Acquisition:
Acquired in the Gurney Sale, March 1936 (Sotheby's, Lot 145).
Data Source(s):
Description based on Frank Taylor, 'Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1937), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Law, Medieval
Abstract:
'Leges Angliae', produced in England c. 1150.
Foliation:
Twice numbered previously, firstly, 21-61 by a 16th century hand which also added a brief contents list on an endleaf, showing the missing folios 1-20 contained the laws of Canute and Alfred; secondly 46-87 in a 17th century hand.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment.
Provenance:
Owned by W. Fleetwood.
Owned by Sir Henry Spelman (d. 1641), antiquarian.
Owned by Dr. Cox Macro (1683–1767), five times chief magistrate of Bury St. Edmunds.
Owned by the Gurney family of Keswick Hall, Norfolk.
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