Registrum omniu[m] breuium tam originaliu[m] q[uam] iudicialium
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Apud Guilielmum Rastell.
Published: 1531
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat; roa; eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Writs; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Registrum omnium brevium tam originalium quam judicialium; Registri de breuibus originalibus; Registrum omnium brevium judicialium; Register of the wryttys orygynall and judiciall
Work titles: Registrum brevium
Notes: In two parts, each with separate title page.

Part 2 has title: Registrum omniu[m] breuium iudicialium.

Both titles within a woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 20; Devices, no. 62) with Rastell's initials, W R on the base of the pillars.

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of title pages.

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

Colophon, pt.2: Thus endyth thys boke callyd the Register of the wryttys orygynall and iudiciall, prentyd at London by Wyllyam Rastell, and it is to sell in Fletestrete at the house of the sayde Wyllyam, or in Poulys chyrch yarde, or els at Temple Barre at the house of Robert Redman.

Collation: 1-2⁶ 3⁴ a-3f⁶ 3g⁴ 3h⁶ ²a⁶ ²b⁴ A-N⁶ O-P⁴ [$4 (-FI4) signed; 3(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.

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

STC (2nd ed.) 20836

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T309a (pt. 1)

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T309b (pt. 2)

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

Ex libris Thomas Smyth -- George Dunn (his sale, Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1913, no. 240)

Ex libris Thomas Thurlby -- Thomas James Arnold -- Luke Owen Pike -- John C. Bigham, Viscount Mersey -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bound in contemporary calf over oak boards, covers decorated in blind with 'Heads-in-medallion' roll with Rennaisance ornaments (Oldham, Blind stamped, no. HM. h (15) 840); 'Rennaisance continuous' roll with vase (no. RC. b (5) 884) forming an X; and ornament (no. C5); brass clasps on back cover, stubs of leather straps at front; possibly bound in Oxford. With a later red leather spine label with gilt title: 'Registru. omn. brev.' Spine repaired. Front and back pastedowns of printed waste, possibly from an edition of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. Vellum guard of manuscript waste at end. On the undecorated panels of the front cover are numerous Roman letters, blind-stamped randomly, most 3 mm. tall, added at a later date. A few letters stamped on back cover, including the name 'CONYERS'. Bookplate of George Dunn, who acquired it in July 1886. On title page in an early hand: 'Thomas Smyth interioris templi me possidet'; possibly Thomas Smythe of Annables, Hertfordshire, admitted to Inner Temple in November 1558.

Bound in contemporary calf over oak boards, covers decorated in blind with fillets and heraldic 'portcullis, rose, fleur-de-lis' roll ((Oldham, Blind stamped, no. HE. g (2), 759); rebacked. Bottom edge-mark, in a 17th century hand: 'Registerū ... '. Bookplate of Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park. At head of title page, remains of an inscription dated 1597, with Latin motto. At head of title, within border: 'Thos. Thurlby 1717' in a court hand. At foot of title, written in an archaic style: 'T.I. Arnold MDCCCxxviii'. 'L. Owen Pike. 1881.' on verso of title page. With marginal annotations, in English, Law French and Latin, in an 18th century hand, many with references to Fitzherbert's Natura brevium. A few 16th century marginal annotations.