Fragmenta Manuscripta 214: Legal document, William Skrene, John Quynton, and John Bleathe with his wife, Mary

1485 - 1499

Inscribed Date: 1490

Binding: Not bound.
Number of scribes, f. 1r-v: 1.
Script, f. 1r-v: Cursive.
Layout, f. 1r-v: One column visible with 10 lines of text with 2 signatures, no bounding lines or ruling marks.

Script: Cursive

Legal document for a messuage of 7 acres in Alnythelee [Ardleigh?], Essex, signed on Easter, 1490 during the reign of Henry VII.

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 434-75.

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10287

Fragmenta Manuscripta 214

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

This land document was sent from Mr Charles Golding (Sudbury, Suffolk) to E.A. Fitch, Esq. on 24 July 1900. It was gifted to a certain Harley by his nephews, Ian and Francis, in 1957. The document is an addition to the original 209 fragments in the Fragmenta Manuscripta album.

William Skrene; John Quynton; John Blecche and his wife, Mary

Parchment - 95 x 235 mm

Latin

manuscript fragment

Alnithlee, Essex, England