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Legal document by John Gernoun appointing as his attorneys Edmund Bretoun, John Jarde, and Alescander Pondere to deliver to Sir Walter Fitz Water, Lord of Wodham, Robert de Swynbourne, Richard Waldegrave, John de Rookwode, William Asteby, and Humphrey de Westone, seizin of the Manor of Abyngdon, Northants, with the advowson of the church there. Dated at Wykes in the county of Cambridge on the Friday before the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 6th Richard II. Gothic bastard hand. Brown ink. Recto contains a red wax seal with an image surrounded by text. "6 R 2" appears in the top left corner in light brown ink in a second hand. Verso is not visible because the manuscript fragment is sewn to a piece of cardboard (which has a description of the item in modern hand in black ink).

Legal document. Cursive in brown ink. Top left corner of the page contains the date ("Du 14 November 1741"). Top line of the text is larger than the rest. A stamp (" G. D'Orleans 13 Sol. 4 Den.") in black ink occurs at the top. Left margin of the recto contains two bits of writing: one is parallel to the main text, and the other is perpendicular to the main text. Within the document are references to the acquisition of a house. Names mentioned: Dame Dudoyes, Dame Demandville, Dame Duehaulvoix, and a certain M. Gerard Gaue/tt S[?] Dechallets. Writing on both sides.

Legal document. Contract. Gothic bastard hand. Brown ink. Recto contains the principal text which ends with "Sig." The line of the "g" continues to the right as a straight line, then drops straight down and takes a turn to the right where it is interrupted by a penwork notarial seal which consists of a square divided into four smaller squares, contained within a 4-pointed, brown ink star that overlays another 4-pointed star outlined in brown ink. A paragraph of text follows the seal. Verso contains writing in black ink in a later hand. It reads "Comando de 2500 Cortorya(?) da pox el...de...1399" and "Doro Luis de Bardaxi."

Judicial proceedings in the names of King Ferdinand II (V) and Queen Isabella I regarding an inheritance in Cabrillo of Alfonso Enriquez. A 1968 correspondence about the document reads: The document is directed to the Judge of the City of Rodrigo de Pedimento by Alfonso Enriquez concerning certain inheritances in a place called Cabrillo. He (Enriquez) was having certain difficulties with the property which he sold in Vallodalid on 17 June 1497 in the presence of Bartolomé Ruiz de Castañeda, Court Clerk of Cómara. There were also proceedings in his favor made in the year 1498 before Francicso Suárez Cabrera, Court Clerk in the city of Salamonica. Attached to the document described is a half sheet of paper, written in the 18th century, in Spanish, in cursive, in dark brown ink, summarizing the contents of the 15th century document. 15th century document: Cursive. Dark brown or black ink. On each page, new paragraphs begin with large capitals, and when the text of a paragraph ends before the bottom of the page, a long horizontal line fills in the space. Top margin of the recto of the first page is blank, and the bottom of the text is bounded by a gold decorative line. On the verso of this page and on all subsequent pages, the top margin of the page is filled in by three golden, diagonal hash marks; the bottom of the text is bounded by a decorative gold ink line. The left margin of the second page contains a date "1497" in a second hand. The verso of page 7 contains marginalia. The verso of the 9th page is the final page containing original text. Halfway down the page, the black ink writing ceases and gold ink writing begins. At the bottom center of the page, there is a penwork notarial seal followed by three signatures (all in gold ink). The 10th page of the document was blank, but its verso now contains writing in Spanish in a rather modern hand. The entire document is tied together by (18th century?) twine. A modern Spanish translation of the 18th century Spanish coversheet is available.

Legal document. Brown ink. First page of the recto has a wide left margin. The date"31 Julliet 1623" is in the top left corner. Most pages are filled with writing, but the verso of the second page has only 6 lines. These lines are followed by two large signatures and perhaps a third, smaller signature. Also on the verso of the second page is diagonal cursive writing that slants upward. Four lines of writing appear perpendicular to the principal text. All of the pages, save the verso of the second page, have a short, horizontal squiggly mark below the last line of the text.