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Layout: double columns of 98 lines.
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Decoration: illuminated initial on f. 1; numerous penwork initials.
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Binding: modern wrappers; modern case.
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Script: small gothic bookhand.
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Decoration: headings in red, capitals in red and blue.
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Binding: Inlaid into a large paper leaf.
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From Takamiya MS 45: Doheny Collection of single leaves.
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Layout: double columns of forty lines.
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Layout: double columns of 49 lines.
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Script: cursive English bookhand.
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Decoration: two initials in burnished gold on colored grounds, with foliate sprays.
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Layout: double columns of 56 lines.
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Decoration: two large initials in gold; numerous smaller initials in red or blue.
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The Middle English lyrics appear in several other manuscripts, including the Vernon MS (Bodleian Library).
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Layout: single column.
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Decoration: initial large miniature of the Virgin Mary and child. Numerous burnished gold initials on red or blue grounds with foliate sprays; numerous internal initials in either burnished gold or red or blue penwork.
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Binding: modern red morocco case.
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Possibly from Tewkesbury (contains a copy of a prayer said to have been carried away by the Devil from Our Lady of Tewkesbury).
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Script: English rounded bookhand.
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Decoration: four illustrations: the Three Nails, a Heart and Crown of Thorns; a Cross with the Instruments of the Passion; the Holy Wounds of Christ; and the Instruments of the Passion.
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Binding: modern case.
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Text is substantially complete, lacking two leaves at the beginning, one in the middle, and probably several at the end.
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Layout: single columns of 42 and 39 lines, respectively.
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Script: English cursive bookhand (two scribes).
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Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork.
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Binding: eighteenth-century full calf.
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Layout: single columns of 25-31 lines.
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Decoration: some rubrication.
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Binding: seventeenth-century limp vellum.
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Script: several hands.
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Decoration: Abbey of the Holy Ghost has initials in blue with red penwork.
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Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns.
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Script: two gothic bookhands.
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Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families.
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Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 53.
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Annotation at top of roll in late 18th century hand attributing ownership in 1485 to Richard Kidderminster, Abbot of Winchecombe.
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Layout: double column.
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Script: English gothic bookhand.
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Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares.
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Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 36.
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Layout: double columns.
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Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares; circular diagram of the temple of Jerusalem.
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Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper.
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Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume.
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Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum.
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Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines.
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Script: several English cursive bookhands (Anglicana and secretary).
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Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S.
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Binding: contemporary limp vellum.
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Online collection includes 1920 images of documents.
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Title from HTML t.p. (viewed March 25, 2011).
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Bound in contemporary vellum, wallet binding with a brass clasp decorated with a floral tooling.
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General notes: Notes on provenance: bookplates, binding, etc.
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A few sheets of material are enclosed in front cover's envelope.
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Written on vellum with red wax seal and blue embossed stamp affixed.
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"Guilford June 5th 1785 Isaac Chalkers Alphabet": in ink on back cover ; entries within dated between 1761 and 1791.
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In an acid free envelope: 40 cm.
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Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering).
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A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7.
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Layout: single column, 16-19 lines.
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Script: contemporary Anglicana hand.
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Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon.
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Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
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Includes a detailed table of contents at front.
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Cover title: Civil list establishments &c.
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Written in pen and black ink throughout; on ledgers ruled in red.
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Bound in 18th century parchment.
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Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering).
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A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14.
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Title from incipit.
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Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum).
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Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097.
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Layout: double columns, 32 lines.
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Script: Gothic Textura.
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Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue.
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Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ.
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Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering).
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A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34.
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Script: English book hands.
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Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue.
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Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
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Accompanied by several letters and printed items concerning the Pelman Institute and the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
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Bound in contemporary marbled boards; original spine lacking.
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Title from front cover.
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Annotated on verso of front endpaper: Cambridge.
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First lecture headed: Lectures. Begun 20th Nov. 1794.
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Binding: contemporary full parchment.
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Most of the volume is blank.
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Inscription on front endpaper in the same hand: Begun Jany. 1st 1766.
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Ownership inscription in a later hand on verso of front flyleaf: Rich.d Tomlinson His Book.
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Binding: contemporary full calf.
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Binding: contemporary stiff marbled paper wrappers.
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Paper label on front cover: Drawer No. 1, Mr. Dixon.
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Binding: original full reverse calf, brass clasps.
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Binding: contemporary full limp vellum with flap.
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Remains of red wax seal.
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Caption title from page [1].
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Page [7] blank.
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Note on page [8]: List of Hogarth's prints. This was given me by Mr. Steevens in the hand writing of G. Steevens Esq. [Signed] Novr. 1799 J. Sayers.
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