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MS. Ashmole 1152

Summary Catalogue no.: 7861

Contents

1.
Writs of Edward III and Henry IV.
Language(s): Latin (?)
2.
Act of Parliament, 1446
Language(s): Latin (?)
3.
Poem
Language(s): Middle English
4.
Statutes of England to 1 Henry IV. (French, table of contents in Latin)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Initials. On fol. 284 royal arms with the wrong colours. R. Shipden, fol. 292v, perhaps the scribe of part of the MS. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 855)

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning (with additions) ; English

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 1017
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1146

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.