A medieval lawyer’s pocketbook and Quevedo’s Seneca
UK: WRITTEN shortly after 1290, perhaps for a practising lawyer and presumably by professional scribes – it exhibits a variety of neat English cursive and charter hands – the manuscript copy of Magna Carta and the Statutes of England illustrated right is a remarkable example of an English medieval secular book.
Exhibiting some later pigskin restorations and with replacement endpapers, it is otherwise in unsoph…