The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.3.11
Manuscript Title

Treatise on changing money (from Nicolas d'Oresme); Confirmation of privileges of the City of London; The Statute of Servants etc

Alternative Title

Miscellanea

James Number 1183
Century 15th16th
Physical Description

35 lines to a page. Clearly written.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. H. 2. No. 316.

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 30.5 x 22
Folio 178 ff.
Material Paper
Language EnglishMiddle English
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.11/manifest.json
Online Since 10/02/2016

Contents

There is a vellum flyleaf with two receipts on the verso.f.1b

Preface to a treatise on changing of money (from the French of Nicolas d'Oresme)
Capitula
Here bigynnen the chapitres folowyng a Treatise of the bigynnyng of natures lawe and Right and chaunge of money. (26 chapters.)
f.2 A Kalendar of the Charter of London
Text of the Treatise on Money.
f.7 Whan the highest god divided folkes
-that may not lightly be inpugned.
Here endith the treatice of chaunge of money.
f.26 Confirmation of privileges of the City of London, and Charters, in English
f.46 The maner and forme of the Coronacioun of kynges and qwenes of Ingland
ff.li-lxi blank.
f.61 Of the libertees and Fraunchices in the citee of London in the tyme of seynt Edward kyng of Ingland
The customs of various trades follow.
f.87 Of the Shereves court etc.
f.100 The statute of seruaunts etc.
f.133 La proheme de the probleme in the newe booke of thauncient customs and usages in the citee of London etc. (1 Rich. II.)
This leaf is torn, the text begins:
The perfeccioun of al policie.
f.158 In another hand: The Oath taken by Rich. Reynold, Sheriff, 1532

The rest of the book is blank, save for three entries of documents on the last two leaves.

Bibliography

Barron, C. M., and Wright, L. (eds), The London jubilee book, 1376-1387: an edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, folios 133-157 (Woodbridge, 2021)

Mooney, L., 'A Middle English Text on the Seven Liberal Arts', Speculum, 68 (1993), 1027-52

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 109-14

Mosser, D. W., Dating the Manuscripts of the "Hammond Scribe" : What the Paper Evidence Tells Us (New York, 2007)

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