A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England

APPENDIX 2. Codicological Description of New Haven, Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library MssG St11 no.1

145 Appendix 2 Codicological Description of New Haven, Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library MssG +St11 no.1 Structure This manuscript has 392 vellum leaves, approximately 180 mm by 250 mm in size. Small holes appear in a few leaves (e.g., fols. 100 and 116). Truncated decoration in the outer and top margins of several leaves resulted from trimming during preparation for binding (plates 1 and 2). One paper pastedown appears at the front of the codex (plate 22). One paper flyleaf and a paper pastedown appear at the end of the codex. Modern pencil leaf numbers appear in the upper-right corners on 389 of the leaves, with 3 leaves missing numbers (between leaves 37 and 38, 64 and 65, and 282 and 283). The leaves of the manuscript are organized into 50 quires with the following structure: 1(1+8) , 2(8) –42(8) , 43(4-1) , 44(8) –49(8) , 50(6+2) . In the final quire, fols. 383 and 389 are tipped in. prepArAtion of the pAge Pricking for ruling remains visible in the bottom of fols. 2–9 (plates 7 and 8), the top of fol. 343 (plate 14), and the top and side margins of fols. 382–89 (plates 16–18). Most leaves during the statutes text show light brown ink ruling for a single column of text, with additional ruling for running heads in the top margin and ruling for regnal year notations in the outer margins (plates 10–13). Pencil ruling for the same layout appears on fols. 222r–224v and 246r– 253v. The rulings appear slightly closer together on fols. 230–237. Similar light ink ruling appears during the treatises and subject index that precede the statutes proper (plates 7–9). During the subject index to the statutes, there are also vertical rulings for the subject headings. Up through fol. 381v, the text Appendix  146 block is ruled for 38 lines; thereafter, the ruling is darker and less regular, with the number of lines of text varying from 34 to 38 (plates 16–18). contentS This manuscript contains several legal texts in Latin and French: Fol. 1r–v Blank [with later inscriptions added] Fols. 2r–7r Modus tenendi Parliamentum (ed. Pronay and Taylor 1980, 67–91) Fols. 7v–8v Tractatus de senescalsia Angliae (ed. Harcourt 1907, 164–67) Fol. 9r–v Blank Fols. 10r–53r Subject index for Nova statuta Angliae 1 Edward III to 23 Henry VI Fols. 53v–54v Blank Fols. 55r–138v Nova statuta Angliae for 1 Edward III to 50 Edward III (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 1:251–398) Fols. 139r–197v Nova statuta Angliae for 1 Richard II to 21 Richard II (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 2:1–110) Fols. 198r–235r Nova statuta Angliae for 1 Henry IV to 13 Henry IV (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 2:111–69) Fols. 235v–260v Nova statuta Angliae for 1 Henry V to 9 Henry V (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 2:170–212) Fols. 261r–334r Nova statuta Angliae for 1 Henry VI to 23 Henry VI (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 2:213–343) Fols. 334v–335v Blank Fols. 336r–356v Nova statuta Angliae for 25 Henry VI to 39 Henry VI (ed. Raithby 1810–28, 2:344–79) Fol. 357r–v Blank [except for catchword on 357v] Fols. 358r–381v Nova statuta Angliae for 1 Edward IV to 7 Edward IV [incomplete at end] (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 2:380–423) Fols. 382r–385v Nova statuta Angliae for 22 Edward IV [incomplete at beginning] (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 2:471–76) Fols. 386r–389v Nova statuta Angliae for 1 Richard III [incomplete at end] (ed. and trans. Raithby 1810–28, 2:477–98) hAndS Three hands appear in the primary texts of the codex. Scribe A (fols. 2r–8v and 344v–381v) (plates 6–8, 15) and Scribe B (fols. 10r–344v) (plates 1–5, 9–15) use forms of Bastard Anglicana script for the body of the texts and Textura Semi-Quadrata script for headings at the top of the leaves, statute numbers in the margin, and the beginnings of statutes within the text block. The hands of Scribe A and Scribe B have many similarities and may represent work done Appendix  147 by two scribes with similar training or by the same scribe at different times. Both...