Liber Horn

{{Short description|1311 book by Andrew Horn}}

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Liber Horn is a book completed in 1311 by Andrew Horn. The National Archives (the official archive of the UK government) describes it as "a compilation of charters, statutes and customs".{{Cite web|url=https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+COL~2FCS~2F01~2F002?SESSIONSEARCH#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-0.6708%2C-0.0248%2C2.163%2C1.5426|title = Liber Horn | London Metropolitan Archives}} It is thought to have been a compilation of two separate books: De Veteribus Legibus Angliae and De Statutes. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes it as "the most comprehensive of all statute collections".[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=075-col_07&cid=6-1-3#6-1-3 The National Archives][http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13780 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] Portions of Liber Horn were reproduced in Statutes of the Realm, Volume 1.{{cite book|author=Gwen Seabourne|title=Royal regulation of loans and sales in medieval England: monkish superstition and civil tyranny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3c9TUeP4msC&pg=PA76|accessdate=12 February 2012|year=2003|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-022-1|page=76}}

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