This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the
12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the
Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise
on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called
Glanvill) and the earliest copy of the first version of the Leges
Edwardi Confessoris (The Laws of King Edward the Confessor). These
two works were written by the same scribe around 1190. Contents:
ff. 5r-73v: Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae
commonly attributed to Ranulf of Glanvill (b. 1112, d. 1190), Chief
Justiciar of England. ff. 74r-212v: The inspeximus of Magna Carta
of 1300 by King Edward I and a collection of the Statutes of
England down to 1340. ff. 213r-219r: Leges Edwardi Confessoris .
ff. 219r-220r: The Statute of Merton and Assisa Panis (The Assize
of Bread). ff. 220v: Sixteen anonymous rhyming trochaic verses
lamenting legal changes.[ff. 1v, 3r-3v, 4v are
blank].Decoration:Numerous large decorated initials, some with
extensive pen-flourishing in red, green and blue. Numerous small
decorated initials with extensive pen-flourishing in red, green and
blue. Numerous decorated letter descenders with arabesque motifs on
the lowest line, some with grotesque figures (ff. 5r-73v). Numerous
marginal doodles in red ink. Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
