The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.7.15
Manuscript Title

Statutes of the Guild of St Clement, Cambridge etc

Alternative Title

Gild of St Clement, Cambridge.

James Number 1343
Date Cent. xv early. [1431]
Century 15th
Physical Description

16 lines to a page. Clearly written. Initials in red and blue.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. Marked E. 1. No. 238. On the first flyleaf a monogram and 9 Mar. 1664 empt. a (name erased, seemingly (Lacom). On p.1. Initials F [circle with cross inside] B and W + C.

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 17 x 11
Folio 32 ff.
Material Parchment
Language LatinMiddle English
Collation

16 28 38 46 54.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.7.15/manifest.json
Online Since 25/01/2022

Contents

p.1 Memoria de S. Clemente papa et martire
p.2 Pro patribus et sororibus uiuis oratio
Deus qui caritatis dona.
p.3 In hic statuta edita in honore S. Clementis pape et martiris de communi consensu omnium fratrum eiusdem gilde anno domini millo. cccco. xxxjo. Et quilibet frater in admissione sua debet iurare huiusmodi statuta obseruare
From p.33 to p.47 the statutes are concerned with keeping of anniversaries. Various hands appear after p.36.
On p.48 are a few late Obits.
Four leaves at the beginning and three at the end are blank.
Statutes of the Gild of St Clement at Cambridge in the year 1431.
Printed in Toulmin Smith English Gilds, pp.273-282, for the Early English Text Society.

Bibliography

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), p. 126

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 381, pl. 220 [pp. 1-32 datable in or soon after 1431; written at Cambridge]

Smith, T., and L. T. Smith, English Gilds, Early English Text Society o.s. 40 (1870), 274-82



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