Magna Carta
Publisher: Cum solerti cura ac diligentia viri Roberti Redman nup[er]rime exaratus.
Published: 1525
Place of publication: [London] In parochia sancti Clementis sub intersignio sancti Georgi
Language: lat; roa
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Statutes; Early works to 1800; Law; Magna Carta
Other titles: Magne Carta; Antiqua statuta
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Antiqua statuta)
Notes: First [6] leaves are a calendar; followed by Magna Carta with statutes, and the capitula and tabula in [10] leaves.

Calendar begins: Ianuarius h[abet] dies .xxxi ...

Caption title, A1 recto: Folio primo. Magna carta.

Caption title, N3 recto: Capitula. Cap[itul]a Magne Carta.

Imprint from colophon, on N11v, which begins: Ad laudem [et] gloria[m] cunctipotentis ac beate virginis Marie totaq[ue] celestis curia paruus codex qui Antiqua statuta et Noua vocatur explicit...

Text preceded by calendar printed in black and red, which begins: Ianuarius h[abe] dies xxxi.

Collation: [pi]A⁶ A-N¹² [$5 (+[pi]A4, -A5) signed]

Errors in foliation: leaf lxxxv not foliated; leaf ciii printed iii.

In black letter type.

Initials, some historiated.

Cut of the infant Christ (Beale, J.H. Engl. law, Appendix 1, no. 23) on N12 recto.

Contains Magna Carta and statutes passed before the reign of Edward III.

Formerly also STC 9289.

STC (2nd ed.) 9269

Beale, J.H. Engl. law S6

In Latin and Law French.

Ex libris Herman Bilson.

Edge-mark (shelf mark?): "139". Head of [pi]A (with a signature?) has been cut. At head of [pi]A2 recto: 'Liber Herman Bilsoni' in a contemporary hand, possibly that of Herman Bilson, alderman of Winchester and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford. With a few early marginal annotations and markings.

Copy imperfect; lacking final leaf (N12).

Bound in contemporary calf decorated in blind. On front cover, an acorn panel (part of Oldham, Blind panels, no. AC11?) and a St. John the Baptist panel (Oldham, Blind panels, no. 28?) with foliage side borders cut off, on back cover; rebacked. Oldham suggests the St. John the Baptist panel stamp tool may have been of French origin; place of binding uncertain.