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Date(s)
- [1409x1425] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
x, 109 ff. (ff. i-iii and 109 are original parchment flyleaves; ff. 1-108 original foliation) : Parchment and paper ; c. 220 x 150 mm. (c. 160-180 x 105 mm.).
Pasteboard covers with a papered spine, [1837x1899], same style as MSS I.26, II.2; 'Legal Precedents. MS Vellum and Paper. No 25. Porkington Library' written on the spine. The sewing onto four bands of double leather thongs appears to be original.
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Name of creator
Archival history
Evidently compiled by lawyers with Yorkshire associations. On f. i is a copy of a writ to create William Ayscogh serjeant-at-law, 1438 (on William Ayscough, later Justice of the King's Bench (d. c. 1455), see The Victoria History of the County of York, ed. by William Page, Victoria County History, 4 vols (London, 1907-1925), III (1913), 322, and J. H. Baker, The Order of Serjeants at Law (London, 1984), p. 497). On the end pastedown, 'Iste liber constat [ ] quod [ ]', the names erased, the second name perhaps 'Christopher Y.ff.ton'; written in rasura after the word 'constat' is 'Ric' Danby de medio timp[ ]', [late 15 cent.]. 'Richard Palmes' (f. ii and end pastedown) and 'Chaterley' (end pastedown), [late 15. cent.]; Ayscough, Danby and Palmes are Yorkshire names with medieval legal associations. 'Corbett' (f. 53) and 'William [?Dyneley] of [ ]' (f. 73, erased), [15/16 cent.]; 'William Driver' (ff. ii recto-verso and iii), 'Francis Driver' (f. iii) and 'John J[ ]el' (f. 108, part erased), [16th/17th cent.]. MS 23 in Thomas Phillipps's 1837 printed catalogue and MS 25 in the revised versions of his catalogue (see Brogyntyn MS I.23); not included in the Second Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London, 1874).
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Scope and content
A volume containing an abridgement of Le Livre des Assises (first published as Tabula libri assisarum et placitorum corone, ed. by John Rastell ([London], [1514?], ESTC S121691); see, for instance, Le livre des assises et pleas del' corone…, ed. by John Rastell (London, 1679, ESTC R40449)), written by five contempory hands of the early fifteenth century. Scribe A (ff. iv-vii verso, x verso (the calendar of contents), 73 verso-74, 76-88 verso, 96 verso-108 verso) is seemingly the controlling hand, and is responsible for the foliation and most of the additions and annotations. The other hands are B (ff. 1-42 verso), C (ff. 42 verso-75 verso, except for brief interruptions by A and D), D (ff. 51 verso-53 passim, 62, 65) and E (ff. 88 verso-96 verso). Running titles; no rubrication.
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Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
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Language and script notes
Middle French, Latin.
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Finding aids
A detailed list of the contents is available at https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/brogi25.pdf
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Notes area
Note
Original title.
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[Produced in England.]
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Vertical margins ruled in hard-point. 26-36 long lines.
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Collation: 1(4) (ff. i-iii and the pastedown), 2(8) wants 6 (ff. iv-x), 3-9(16). In quires 2 and 3 parchment and paper leaves alternate, parchment outermost, with a parchment reinforcing strip at the centre; in quires 4-9, leaves 1, 3, 5 and 8, with their conjugates, are of parchment.
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The paper of quire 2 has a watermark similar to Briquet 3129 (dated 1381); that of quires 3-5 and 8-9 is of type Briquet 4499-4503 (1375-1403); that of quires 6-7 is similar to Briquet 6067 (1422).
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Leaf signatures; the two outermost pages of quires marked 'extra' in the lower outer corners.
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Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS I.25 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].