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Fragmenta Manuscripta 215: Legal document

Information About This Item

Title

Fragmenta Manuscripta 215: Legal document

Date

1450 - 1475
Inscribed Date: 1463, September 29

Description

One column with 12 lines of text and 2 signature lines.
Script: Cursive
Notes: Dating clause on document, "… sancti michaelis anno … Edwardi … quarti a conquestu secundo."

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Is Referenced By

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10288

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 215

Provenance

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 fragment was sent by Charles Golding (Sudbury, Suffolk) to E. A. Fitch on 24 July 1900.
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.

Format

Parchment - 105 x 195 mm

Language

Latin

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

Little Bursted, Essex?, England