[Law of kings Ine]

Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">ff. [38] (last blank). C16 vellum, gilt. Ownership inscription of Millwood Morgan Brazzell on verso of last blank folio.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bilingual manuscripts on vellum, in Nowell’s formal hand, with autograph additions by his colleague and executor William Lambarde, of the thirty-six genuine Laws of the West-Saxon king Ine (= Ini, or Ina, d. 726), promulgated between 690 and 693; in facing Anglo-Saxon and Tudor English translation, but incorporating three additional and spurious laws concerning coinage, the export of wool, and the movements of foreign merchants in England. The last are adapted from the thirteenth-century Leges Anglorum in Norman Latin, but their revival, retrospective translation...