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Title

Facsimile of LJS 238, Assise of all manner of breade :

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

1-16-2015

Files

Comments

Table of prescribed weights for varieties of loaves for different prices of wheat, with the heading The statute of wynchestre. Written in Winchester in the 16th century. After a preamble of 8 lines written in a cursive Gothic script, the table of 6 columns of 34 lines in textura script presents the prices of wheat in the first column followed by columns for 5 varieties of loaf (quarter symnell, farthing wastel, white lofe, wheten lof, and household lof). The preamble begins with the heading and a 6-line calligraphic initial in red ink. The columns alternate between red and black ink, with a drawing in faint red ink at the top of each column (a sack of grain over the first, a type of loaf over the others) and a drawing of a scroll in black ink enclosing the heading of each column.

Keywords

Bakers--England--Early works to 1800, Bread--England--Early works to 1800, Weights and measures--England--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts English--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

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http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4993994

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs238.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 238, Assise of all manner of breade :" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 169.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/169