[Readings on early statutes of England].
Contributors: Library of Congress.
Published: 1430
Language: roa
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Law -- Great Britain.; Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman.
Other titles: Readings on Second statute of Westminster.
Notes: Baker, J. H.  English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., I, 25 ("Law MS. 29")
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In Law French; lemmas in Latin.
Captions and running titles (variously abridged): leaves 1-88, Westminster 2; 89, Westminster 3; 99, Statut[e?] Gloucester; 132-142, Merton (mostly "Marton"); 144-152b, M[e]rton 2.
On leaves 159-182, a legal dictionary (not alphabetical) with captions in margin; 183-185, notes on avowing; 186-187, on statute De hereditate alicuius.
Identified on laid-in dealer's slip as Readings on the Second statute of Westminster.
Text begins abruptly (one? leaf missing): lestatut de Glouc[ester] c[apitul]o iiijo q[ue] p[arle de?] lalienacion fait p[er] t[enaunt] ... lley de[?]  Mez en diu[er]s cases le t[enaunt] en le tail p[oi]t disconti[nu?]e[r?] ... Some material is probably lost at end.
The texts are those of serial lectures given in one of the Inns of Court.
Foliation, in modern pencil, omits blank leaves.
On pastedown of upper cover: Iste liber pertinet ad Etwer[d?]um (Oliverum?) Alyn'; in head margin of leaf 1: Etwerett (Olywett?) Alyn'. Purchased by LC 7/11/1944 from W. H. Robinson; accessioned in 1945 (LL5296D2); for a time referred to as Law Library ms. no. 29.
Written in England; the prevailing script is "anglicana currens".
Paper of Italian origin, datable to ca. 1430; watermarks: half horse (leaves 1-22 and 159-182), hills/mitre as Briquet 11662 (23-88), horn (90-97 and [182₃]-187), five-point star at finger tips of gloved hand (99-143), crescent with cross pommé (144-158). Parchment is used for the outermost bifolia of some gatherings (text continues on it); at least one such bifolium is missing (leaf which preceded that which is now 1, and its conjugate following leaf 21). Leaves 94-96 mutilated by fire. Altogether 21 leaves, part of the original gatherings, are blank; they are scattered throughout the volume.