YALE UNIVERSITY
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THE JAMES MARSHALL AND MARIE-LOUISE OSBORN
COLLECTION
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Osborn fa10
The Babington Plot. England; 1586. Paper; i + 22 + i ff.; 310 x
200 mm.; 1 column, 44-48 lines.
I (10), II-VII (2)
Cursive script. Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early
thirteenth century English latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian;
f. 1: "bonorum possessionem diuus pius antoninus scripsit (29.1.30) ...
nullo preiudicio voluntate facto frustra legata est (29.1.40). F. 2:
"nat conveniri. Quod ergo tempus spectabimus (29.4.6) ... Titius omisso
testamento legitimam hereditatem possideat (29.4.22). The margins
contain the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, as well as some later
commentary in an Anglicana script.
On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name "John Rigbye
barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."
Comments: The text is an examination of the confessions of the
conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary
Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.
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