Registrum omniu[m] breuium tam originalium quam iudicialium, nouiter impressum et quam exacte correctum et emendatum
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Apud Richardum Tottelum.
Published: 1553
Place of publication: Excusum Londini
Language: lat; eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Writs; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Registrum omnium brevium tam originalium quam judicialium; Registri de breuibus originalibus; Regyster of the wryttes orygynall and judycyall
Notes: In two parts.

Title within a woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 11)

"Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum." --foot of title page.

Colophon, pt.1: Registri de breuibus originalibus nuper primo typis excussi finis. Londini ex aedibus Guillelmi Rastell. 1531.

Colophon, pt.2, within a ruled border: Thus endyth thys booke callyd the Regyster of the wryttes orygynall [and] iudycyall, pryntyd at London by Wyllyam Rastell, [and] fynysshed the .xxviii. day of Septe[m]ber in the yere of our lorde 1531 and in the .xxiii. yere of y[e] rayne of our souerayn lord Kyng Henry the eyght with the pryuylege of our sayd souerayn lord grauntyd to the sayde Wyllyam, that no person imprynt the same in thys realme within the space of .vii. yere nexte ensuyng.

Collation: 1⁶ 2⁴ a-3f⁶ 3g⁴ 3h⁶ ²a⁴ A-N⁶ O-P⁴ [$4 (-FI4) signed; 2(4), 3h6, and P4 blank]

Errors in foliation: leaves 93, 300, and 312 printed 92, 200, and 112; leaf 235 not numbered.

In predominanly italic type; some black letter and Roman type.

Initials, some historiated.

Side notes.

Includes indexes.

Bearer impressions on 3f6.

This compilation of writs was formerly attributed to Ralph de Hengham. --cf. J.G. Marvin, Legal bibliography.

Another issue of Wiliam Rastell's 1531 ed. (STC 20836), with a new title page and indexes reprinted by Richard Tottel.

STC (2nd ed.) 20837

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T310

Received Oct. 1, 1896; bound Dec. 1935.

Text mostly in Latin, some Law French; pt. 2 colophon in English.

Ex libris Robert Cotton -- Richard Yonge.

Bound in contemporary calf over wooden boards, covers decorated in blind with fillets and 'Heads-in-medallion' roll with Rennaisance ornaments (Oldham, Blind stamped, no. HM. h (3) 828); with corner ornaments and center shield stamp. Possibly Oxford bound in mid-16th century; rebacked. Edge-mark: Registrum. On title page, Latin mottoes in late 16th or 17th century hands, with signatures of 'Barton'; 'Robt. Cotton' (?) (crossed out) in a 16th century hand, and Richard Yonge, in a 17th century hand. Yonge's signature also at the head of a1 recto; possibly the Richard Yonge admitted to Middle Temple February 15, 1631. With a few marginal annotations in a 16th century hand.