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Guide To Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library
EL 34 C 18(EL 1131)View all images for this manuscript SIR JOHN FORTESCUE, GOVERNANCE OF ENGLAND and DECLARACION…UPPON CERTEN WRYTINGES SENT OUT OF SCOTLAND
1. f. 1r-v: The Contents of the first booke, The difference betweene Dominium Regale…; The Second booke is a Retractation made by Sr. John Fortescue of his opinion published in a former treatise for the title
of H. 6 agaynst the title of Ed. 4. Also it conteyneth his recantation of a discourse formerly written by him Agaynst the
Raigne of woemen.
2. ff. 2-26v: The dyfferens bytwene Dominium regale & Dominium politicum et regale, There be ii kynde of kyngdoms…when they shull not mowe do servyce. Finis. [ff. 27-30v, blank]
England, s. XVIIin C. Plummer, ed., The Governance of England: otherwise called The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy, by Sir John Fortescue (Oxford 1885; repr. 1926), here with chapters 1-18 only, pp. 109-54. 3. ff. 31-51v: The Declaracion made by John Fortescue knyght uppon certen wrytinges sent out of Scotland, ayenst ye Kinges title to his Royalme of Englond, A Lerned man in the Lawe of this Lond…for elles ye had done yerin ayenst ryght which me thynkyth ye be not disposid to do. Finis. [ff. 52-86v, blank] T. Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont, ed., “The Declaracion…upon Certayne Wrytinges…” in The Works of Sir John Fortescue, Knight (London 1869) 1:523-41. Paper (Cockatrice, similar to Heawood 838, dated 1609; Armoiries, similar to Briquet 1369, Soleure 1593; Aigle, similar to Briquet 124, Luxembourg 1586, but with initials NF (?) at the bottom; unidentified coat of arms with crown at top of the shield, a horn within the shield, and a 4 and WR below the shield), ff. x (contemporary paper) + 86;305 × 197 (235-250 × 125-130) mm. 23-29 long lines, frame ruled in lead with no ruling across bottom of text frame; round prick marks in upper and lower margins. Collation beginning with flyleaves: 112(-1; 2 is the pastedown) 2-312 412(plus a quire of 4, ff. 27-30, between 2 and 3) 5-712 812(-12; 11 is the pastedown). Catchwords variously on the recto and verso of most leaves, written in the right lower margin immediately beneath the text and justified with the right margin.Written in a secretary script. First word of each section in a display script. Marginal notes in art. 3 in the hand of the scribe identifying the speakers as “Fortescu” and “The lerned Man.” Bound, s. XVII, in limp parchment, with traces remaining of 2 green silk fore edge ties. At the foot of the spine, written upside down in a seventeenth century hand, “Fortescue.” Written in England in the early seventeenth century. On f. i: a cancelled pressmark, “G.6” and a later pressmark, “K.5/6,” both in the hand of John Egerton (1622-86), 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, and, in modern pencil, the Bridgewater pressmark “522” corrected to “1131.” The current Bridgewater pressmark, “34 C 18,” on a paper label on the front pastedown. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington with the Bridgewater Library in 1917 (see pp. 5-7). Bibliography: De Ricci, 138. Abbreviations
C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Copyright 1989.
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