[Tenores novelli]
Contributors: Lettou, John, printer; Machlinia, William de, active 1481-1486, printer
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: John Lettou and William de Machlinia
Published: 1482
Place of publication: London
Language: roa
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Real property
Work titles: Tenures
Notes: Title and imprint from colophon, i6 verso: Expliciu[n]t Tenores nouelli imp[re]ssi p[er] nos Ioh[an]es Lettou [et] Will[e]s de Machlinia i[n] citate Londonia[rum] ecc[lesi]a[m] o[mn]i[u]m s[an]c[t]or[um]

Date of publication from STC (2nd ed.)

Leaf a1 recto blank; table of contents on a1 verso.

Collation: a-h⁸ i⁶ [$4 signed; printing a2-a4 as a1-a3]

In black letter type.

Spaces left for initial capitals to be supplied in manuscript.

First edition of the earliest printed treatise on English law not printed in Latin. Littleton's work incorporated some material from the Old tenures and "sums up the development of what was then the most important branch of the common law" --cf. Oxford companion to law.

STC (2nd ed.) 15719

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T3

Duff 273

Goff L232

Hain-Copinger 10126

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 4002

In Law French.