The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.3.20
Manuscript Title Statutes
Alternative Title Statutes
James Number 1192
Century 14th
Physical Description 40 lines to a page. Well written in law hand.
Provenance Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. H. 17. No. 331. On the flyleaf the name Craddeley (xiv, xv) and Ego Willmus Bekke.
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 30 x 21
Folio 180 ff.
Binding Old red skin over boards: clasps gone.
Material Parchment
Language LatinMiddle French
Collation 2 flyleaves | a6 | 18-68 76 | 88 (wants 4-8) | 98 108 (8 canc.)-138 (wants 5 canc.) 148 152 | l68-228 | 2 flyleaves.
Notes [2] No f.36 and blank stub which cannot be photographed between ff.35 and 37.
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.20/manifest.json
Online Since 28/11/2019

Contents

f.i Original table of contents to Part I.
f.ib Table of chapters
I. f.1 Magna Carta de libertatibus Anglie
f.3 Carta de foresta
f.4 Sentencia lata super Cartas
f.5 Prouisiones de Merton
f.6 Dictum de Kenilleworth
f.8 Statut.: de Marleberge
f.11 Statut.: de Westm. primum
f.18 Statut.: de Gloucestr.
f.19b Explanaciones eorundem
f.20 Stat.: Westm. secundum
f.33 Districciones Scaccarij
f.33b Stat. de Scaccario
f.35 Stat. de Justiciariis assignatis ad querelas audiendas.
f.35b Capitula in Itinere
f.37 Nomina articuli in Itinere
f.38 Stat. de libertate clamandi
f.39 Stat. de quo waranto
f.39b Adhuc de eodem
f.39b Stat. Wyntonie
f.40b Articuli Stat. Wynton.
f.41 Stat. Exon.
f.43 Stat. de Mercatoribus
f.44 Stat. de Moneta
f.45b Capitula de tonsura Monete
f.46 Composicio monete, mensur. et Ponder.
f.46Composicio de Pondere
f.46b Stat. de Emptoribus Terrarum
f.47 Stat. de Religiosis
f.47 Articuli contra prohibicionem Reg. Allocandi
f.47b Responsio per Regem
f.47b Stat. de Militibus
f.48 De Gaueletto in Lond.
f.48b De Bygamis
f.49 Tract. de Antiquo dominiω̑o Corone
f.49b Consuetudines et assise de Foresta
f.50 Extenta Manerii
f.50b Visus Franci plegii
f.51 Assisa Panis et Ceruisie
f.51b Iudicium Pillorie et Tumberelli
f.52 Modus calumpniandi Esson.
f.52b Dies communes in Banco
f.52b Dies communes in placito Dotis
f.53 Modus de Homagio et fide faciend.
f.53 Stat. de Conspiratoribus
f.53b Stat. de Recognitoribus
f.53b Breue inde formatum
f.54 De Anno Bisextili
Following this in a small hand of cent. xiv are three paragraphs in French. The first is:
Fause plus veire qe pie · tu menueas en Surye · mes pur vous neuray meys les eux ploureins · kar vous estes labbeye a suffreytonz · e ne vous celeray mie. Bien conuz en frount la reyne de ceux qui eyment sanz payne · e des gays eyns
ypocras nen sont meys · a a dieux queu fisiciane · si contrefait la valeyne et vaut meys la terre ou tieu dame reigne.
On f.54b in a similar hand
Pur ceo que plusours genz du Rieaulme dengletere et de la terre dirland ont einz ces huis souentefoiz souffers mescheff etc.
In a hand of cent. xv, and on a different quality of vellum:
f.55 De forincisis vocatis ad warantum
f.55 Stat. de defencione juris
f.55b Prerogatiua Regis
f.57 Sacramentum Consiliariorum domini Regis
f.57b de Sacram. Justiciariorum domini Regis
Imperfect.

II. In the original hand.
f.1 Fet asauoir
f.8 Parua Hengham
f.13 Cum sit necessarium
f.16 Magna Hengham
f.27 Indicium Essoniorum
f.30 Cadit assisa
f.34 Tract. de Bastardia (end gone)
f.37 Excepciones (beginning gone)
f.40 Tract. Corone
f.41 Placita Corone
f.43 Articuli in Narrando etc.
f.44b Alia diuisio
f.46 Excepciones contra Breuia
Ending f.49: followed by another set of French verses by the scribe of f.54 in vol. I. There are here six paragraphs:
1. Vn sen (?) de folye.
2. Ly groyn de vne truye.
3. Vne bourde veyre.
4. Souche et perervyn (?).
5. Deux rats usurers.
6. Vn glacenz (?) de pyerre.
f.49b is blank.

III. f.1 Registrum Brevium
1. De Recto.
2. Edwardus etc.: concerning Ric. de Wardington.
Ending f.55b.
A piece has been cut out of the leaf which is stuck to the 1st cover.

On the flyleaf at the end, in a good hand of cent. xiv early, are these inscriptions.
Aat (? Dat) ic blithe sii · dat ghi minne mi · Mi soete lief en ghi.
Al mi troest siin ghi · theron god sta mi bi.
Minne doet mi blide siin · die ic draghe in minen sinne.
En ar soete mondekiin: Alse ic zie ar clar an sciin:
Dine (?) soe mi wesen Keiserinne. Minne doet mi etc.

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