Glossarium juridicum; England, s. xvex

Title

Glossarium juridicum; England, s. xvex

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 87

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xvex

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

55 remaining leaves or parts of leaves of a book that once contained at least 288 leaves (as witness the quire numbers) but many leaves have been entirely excised and others have been reduced by as much as a half by horizontal cutting. Fol. 54 is a stub with some text, c. 35 mm wide, and fol. 55 a stub with traces of a few letters, c. 12 mm wide.

Hands

Anglicana, with secretary a and r; punctuated by medial (?high) point.

Decoration

Plain 1/2-line red initials, red paraphs and stroking.

Binding

Sewn on three bands between early 19th-century millboards covered with parchment. Three green ties (tapes) remain, one on the front cover and two on the back.

Provenance

There are marginalia and addenda of s. xv. There seems to be no evidence to date the savage destruction of the book but from the way quires, single pages, and parts of pages have been excised, it may be a reasonable deduction that at some time, perhaps in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, when the book had ceased to be cared for properly but its subject-matter had not yet gone out of date, it was plundered by a person or persons who cut out those parts that interested them.

It has no known history until it is recorded in CMA as part of the library of Sir William Glynne, Bart., of Ambrosden, Oxon., d. 1690 ('Glossarium vetus, ordine Alphabetico Mutilat: Membrane. Fol.'), with the majority of whose manuscripts it came to Exeter in 1774 by bequest of Joseph Sandford, formerly a fellow of Exeter and then of Balliol College (Boase1, lxiv). At the top of fol. 1r is the title as above (s. xviii), preceded by the Glynne number '2.' and followed by 'vide Catal: MSS. Glynne Bart.', a reference to the catalogue of Glynne’s books in CMA ii. 49–54, no. 1926.2. 'Glynne 2' is written on the front cover in pencil.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, and ‘Coxe LXXXVII’ (pencil), and on the front cover ‘LXXXVII’ (in pencil).