• Restricted material. May not be seen without the permission of the appropriate curator.
• Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura Brevium; the text of The Old Tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
• A catalogue of the legal manuscripts of Anthony Taussig / Sir John Baker and Anthony Taussig. London: Selden Society, 2007.
• Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012.
• Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering).
• A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34.
• Script: English book hands.
• Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue.
• Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
• Natura brevium and Other Works. Anthony Taussig Collection of Legal Manuscripts, James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377.
• Taussig, Anthony.
• Law -- England -- Early works to 1800.
• Law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Writs -- England -- Early works to 1800.
• Writs -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- 14th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.