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• Title:Statuta vetera.
  
• Published/Created:England, [between 1300 and 1399]
  
• Physical Description:ff. 198 : parchment ; 84 x 60 mm.
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Osborn a57
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of curator.
    

   
• Notes: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).
  A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7.
  Layout: single column, 16-19 lines.
  Script: contemporary Anglicana hand.
  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.
  Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
  In Latin and Middle French.
  Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012.
  
• Access and use:Restricted material. May not be seen without the permission of the appropriate curator.
• Summary:Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• References:A catalogue of the legal manuscripts of Anthony Taussig / Sir John Baker and Anthony Taussig. London: Selden Society, 2007.
  
• Cite as:Statuta vetera. Anthony Taussig Collection of Legal Manuscripts, James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307.
  Taussig, Anthony.
  England. Parliament.
  Magna Carta.
  Forestry law and legislation--England--Early works to 1800.
  Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800.
  Law--England--Early works to 1800.
  Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
  Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
  Mortmain--England--Early works to 1800.
  Maintenance and champerty--England--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
  
• Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--England--14th century.