Beinecke MS 618
Carta de foresta.  England, ca. 1580.

Paper with watermark similar to Briquet 12781.  67 f.   296 x 206 (210 x 133)
mm. 1 column, 36 lines; outline of text area in ink; no prickings.  

   I^^50 (50, containing text, is wanting), II^^20 (19,10 wanting).

English secretary hand.

Bound in grey paper boards, with title and date on spine.

Contents: statutes relating to the laws of the forest and the hunting rights
therein.  A comparison of this codex with Beinecke MS 89 reveals that, except
for small details, the two volumes are very similar to each other.

Provenance: a note on f. 1r states that the manuscript is from Ruddington Hall.
Charles Sheldon (notation on bookplate); Francis P. Garvan.  Gift of Francis P.
Garvan (transferred from the Sterling Library of Yale University, Department of
Manuscripts and Archives, 3 October 1979).

Secundo folio: Quid de (index); at any of (text)

Albert Derolez