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MS. Ash. Rolls 33

Former shelfmark:
MS. Ashmole 1160
Contents:
Articles of agreement between Henry VI and Richard, Duke of York, concerning the latter's claim to the throne [1460], Letters missive of George, Duke of Clarence and others, 12 July 1469, against the Woodville faction, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Ash. Rolls 35

Former shelfmark:
MS. Ashmole 21
Contents:
Act for the Attainder of Henry VI, 1461 — c. 1461; English

MS. Ashmole 801

Contents:
Rental of lands in Dunstable, 1543–4 — 16th century, first half; English
Rentals and accounts of St. Paul's Cathedral — 17th century, early; English
Rentals and accounts of St. Paul's Cathedral — 16th century, first half; English
Note on the lands of St. Paul's Cathedral — 16th century, first half; English
Cartulary of St. Paul's Cathedral — 14th century, late; English
Cartulary of Ely cathedral priory — 16th century, middle; English
Legal proceedings in the Roman curia relating to Appleton-le-Street — 14th century, late; English
Statutes of the collegiate church of St. Laurence Pountney, London, 1345 — 14th century, middle (?); English

MS. Ashmole 804

Contents:
Genealogical collections — 16th century; English
Legal documents, Documents relating to the dukes of Norfolk — 17th century; English
Ordinances of the royal household, temp. Henry VII and Henry VIII — 17th century; English
Roll of arms (Powell's Roll) — c. 1345–1351; English

MS. Ashmole 1146

Contents:
Constitutions of English church councils, Documents relating to the Court of Arches — 14th century, second half

MS. Ashmole 1152

Contents:
Writs of Edward III and Henry IV, Act of Parliament, 1446, etc. — 15th century, beginning (with additions); English

MS. Ashmole 1432

Contents:
Medical recipes, Treatise on hawks (Book of Hawking) (fragment) — 15th century (?); English
Medical recipes — 15th century; English
Medical recipes — 15th century, end; English
Herbal (Agnus castus), Medical/herbal recipes, etc. — 15th century; English
Petrus Hispanus, Ps.-Cleopatra, etc. — 15th century, end
Medical recipes — 16th century, late - 17th century, beginning; English
Medical recipes, Legal and administrative documents — 16th century (?); English
Medical recipes — 17th century, beginning; English

MS. Bodl. 91

Contents:
Hugh of St.-Victor — 12th century, second half; English
Bestiary — 14th century, middle; English
Prophetia Merlini — 13th century, early; English
Chronicle A.D. 1 - A.D. 1280 — 1264–13th century, second half; English, Hyde abbey
Statutes of Westminster, 1259/1262 — 13th century, second half; English (?)
Documents relating to English history, 1263–71 — 13th century, second half; English, Hyde abbey (?)

MS. Bodl. 158

Contents:
Richard de Pophis — 15th century, early; English
Nicolas de Lisieux — 15th century, early; English
William of Saint-Amour, Ps.-Hildegard of Bingen, etc. — 15th century, early; English
Thomas Wylton, Richard fitz Ralph, etc. — 15th century, early; English
William of Rimington, etc. — 15th century, early; English

MS. Bodl. 462

Contents:
Parliament Roll for 1388, Laws of Oleron — 15th century, middle; English
Thomas Walsingham — 15th century, middle; English
Thomas de Elmham — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Bodl. 761

Contents:
Petrus Hispanus, H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel, etc. — c. 1360–1370; English

MS. Bowyer 2

Contents:
Statutes of Pisa — 15th century; Italian, Pisa

MS. Bowyer 3

Contents:
Statutes of Venice, 1242–1346 — 14th century, second half; Italian, Venice

MS. Canon. Misc. 227

Contents:
Statutes of Treviso — 15th century and 16th century; Italian

MS. Canon. Misc. 274

Contents:
Antoninus, archbishop of Florence, Tito Novelli, etc. — 15th century

MS. Canon. Misc. 378

Contents:
Notitia dignitatum, etc.; Switzerland (Basel), 1436

MS. Canon. Misc. 435

Contents:
Jacobus de Belviso, Roffredus Beneventanus, etc. — 15th century

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 22

Contents:
Johannes Pratensis (c. 1420–55), Angelus de Periglis, etc. — 15th century, end

MS. Carte 91

Contents:
Text on land measurement, Customs of Anjou and Maine, 1463, etc. — 1503; French, Angers (?)

MS. Digby 186

Contents:
Injunctions of Cardinal John of Ferentino for St Mary's Abbey, York, 1206 — 13th century, beginning; English, York (?), St Mary's Abbey (?)
John of Bridlington, Geoffrey Eglyn, etc. — 15th century - 16th century, beginning; English

MS. Douce 137

Contents:
Legal texts, Formulary — 13th century; English
Ranulph Glanville (attrib.), etc. — 13th century; English
Register of writs, Poems — 13th century (in part c. 1260); English

MS. Douce 139

Contents:
Register of writs, Statutes of England, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry (?)
Statute of Gloucester, Leges Edwardi confessoris, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry (?)
Statutes of England, Charters, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry (?)

MS. Douce 287

Contents:
William FitzStephen, John of Salisbury, etc. — after 1176; English

MS. e Mus. 229

Contents:
Calendar, Customs of the Stews in the Bishop of Winchester's liberty in Southwark — 15th century, second half; English

Exeter College MS. 1

Contents:
Documenta Cisterciensia; England, s. xiii med

Exeter College MS. 115

Contents:
Yearbooks, in French, English, and Latin; London?, England, s. xvex

Exeter College MS. 159

Contents:
Statutes of Edward III and Richard II, in Latin and French; London(?), England, s. xivex.

MS. Fr. c. 2 (R)

Contents:
Roll of Parliament describing the charge brought by Henry Bolingbroke against Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, their duel and banishment, in 1398 — c. 1400; English

MS. Fr. c. 4

Contents:
Pierre d'Abernon of Fetcham, etc. — c. 1300–17th century, first half

MS. Gr. class. a. 4 (P)/1-42

Contents:
Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus — 259–258 BC; Egyptian, Arsinoites (Fayum)

MS. Gr. class. a. 10 (P)

Contents:
Acta Maximi — 2nd century; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus

MS. Gr. class. b. 24 (P)/1-2

Contents:
Reports of court proceedings, Astrology — 2nd century; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus (?)

MS. Gr. class. c. 110 (P) (a)

Contents:
Legal proceedings (extracts) — 153–4 or later; Egyptian
Cession of catoecic land (part of a draft (?)) — 2nd century - 3rd century, early; Egyptian

MS. Gr. class. c. 169 (P) (a)

Contents:
Report of legal proceedings — 3rd century; Egyptian
Register of payments — unknown; Egyptian

MS. Gr. class. c. 270 (P) (a)

Contents:
Report of legal proceedings — 284–286; Egyptian

MS. Gr. class. c. 283 (P) (b)

Contents:
Report of legal proceedings — 4th century; Egyptian

MS. Gr. class. d. 27 (P)

Contents:
Decree about trespass — c. 240 BC; Egyptian, Arsinoites (Fayum)

MS. Gr. class. d. 61 (P)

Contents:
Report of legal process before the praefectus of Egypt — 3rd century, middle; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus
Letter of a centurion to a strategos — 222; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus

MS. Gr. class. d. 86 (P)

Contents:
Fragment about inheritance — 3rd century; Egyptian
Untitled work or fragment — 3rd century; Egyptian

MS. Gr. class. d. 101 (P)

Contents:
Land survey — 2nd century; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus
Acta Alexandrinorum (Acta Isidori) — 3rd century, first half; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus

MS. Gr. class. d. 121 (P)

Contents:
Sale of a dining couch — 255; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus
Judgement of a prefect, Document — 3rd century; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus

MS. Gr. class. e. 25 (P)

Contents:
Royal ordinance relating to a law suit regarding farms (stathmoi) — 245 BC; Egyptian

MS. Gr. class. g. 66 (P)

Contents:
Document relating to a law suit — 3rd century BC; Egyptian, Deir el-Bala'izah

MS. Hamilton 23

Contents:
Konrad von Soltau on the Sentences; canon law; papal formularies. Germany, presumably Erfurt, early 15th century.

MS. Hamilton 56

Contents:
A Augustinus de Ancona, etc.; B, C Sermons. Germany (in part Erfurt OCart?), 15th century

Hertford College MS. 41

Contents:
Fragments of manuscripts and covers removed from bindings.

MS. Holkham misc. 20

Contents:
Formularies and texts relating to the papal penitentiary; Italy, 15th century

MS. Lat. liturg. d. 43

Contents:
Texts pricipally to be read at the chapter office of Prime; Italian (Rome?), early 13th cent.

MS. Lat. misc. a. 2

Contents:
Dinus Mugellanus, etc. — 14th cent.; Italian
Decretals — 14th cent.
Guido de Baysio — 14th cent.; English
Walter Burley — 14th – 15th cent.
Canon law treatise — 14th cent.
Papal documents — 16th cent.
P. Berchorius — 14th–15th cent.
Justinian — 14th cent.; Italian

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3

Contents:
Fragments, 7th-17th centuries

MS. Lat. misc. b. 12

Contents:
Guardbook: miscellanous fragments, mainly of legal works

MS. Lat. misc. b. 13

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments: the following description is incomplete

MS. Lat. misc. b. 23

Contents:
Guardbook of miscellaneous accessions in Latin acquired 1976 onwards, primarily of medieval fragments

MS. Lat. misc. b. 25

Contents:
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from known sources, 1933–65 and n.d. (the quotations of…

MS. Lat. misc. b. 26

Contents:
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from sources not now identifiable (but most show traces…

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments

MS. Lat. misc. d. 69

Contents:
Writing exercises, Indenture of Lodewycus Pole to William Lyne ‘dauber’ of London, etc. — 1456/7 or soon after, with later additions; English, Oxford

MS. Lat. misc. e. 93

Contents:
Oxford formularies of the school of William Kingsmill; English, 15th century

MS. Lat. misc. e. 94

Contents:
Henry of Merseburg, etc. — 13th century, first half; French, East (?)

MS. Lat. misc. e. 103

Contents:
Formularies, mainly of the school of William Kingsmill; England, mid-15th century

MS. Lat. misc. f. 49

Contents:
Formularies; Italy (?), 14th century

MS. Lat. th. d. 10

Contents:
Register of the Papal Court of Appeals — c. 1370–1376; Italian

MS. Lat. th. f. 5

Contents:
Book of directions for the conduct of a Cistercian abbot, Formulary — 13th century, second half

MS. Laud Misc. 180

Contents:
Carthusian statutes and documents — 15th century

MS. Laud Misc. 541

Contents:
William of Saint-Thierry; Germany (Eberbach), 13th century, end

MS. Laud Misc. 621

Contents:
Statutes of Corpus Christi College, Oxford — 16th century, beginning; English

MS. Laud Misc. 659

Contents:
Johannes Auerbach, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Laud Misc. 689

Contents:
Calendar, La Coutume de Normandie, etc. — 14th century, beginning (after 1314); French, Normandy

MS. Lawn medieval 10

Contents:
Antoninus, archbishop of Florence, etc. — Multiple dates; Italian

MS. Lyell 32

Contents:
Documents relating to royal forests, Legal pieces — 15th century, second half; English

MS. Lyell 35

Contents:
Commonplace book containing prophecies, legal notes, medical recipes and charms, and household accounts — 15th century, late; English

MS. Lyell empt. 12

Contents:
Biblical fragments, Liturgical fragments, etc. — 12th century - 18th century

MS. Rawl. A. 143

Contents:
Treaties between England and foreign powers, 1495–1529 — 16th century; English

MS. Rawl. A. 146

Contents:
Divorce proceedings of Henry Holand, Duke of Exeter, and Anne Plantagenet, 1470–1471 — 15th century, after 1470; English

MS. Rawl. A. 150

Contents:
Register of processes in the Court of Wards, 1535–1537 — English

MS. Rawl. A. 357

Contents:
Carta feodi, Ordinances relating to Romney Marsh — 15th century (after 1421); English

MS. Rawl. A. 396

Contents:
Register of processes in the Court of Wards, 1537–1541 — English

MS. Rawl. B. 131

Contents:
Record of the coronation of Richard II, Documents of the reigns of Richard II and Edward I, etc. — 16th century; English

MS. Rawl. B. 410

Contents:
Treatise on English law (unfinished), Confirmatory charter of Edward III to Shrewsbury Abbey, 1346, etc. — 16th century

MS. Rawl. B. 432

Contents:
Lekenor, John Spelman, etc. — 16th century; English

MS. Rawl. B. 502

Contents:
Irish world-chronicle — 11th century, end - 12th century, beginning
Irish historical excerpts copied by Sir James Ware from royal archives — 1642
Saltair na Rann, Sex aetates mundi, etc. — 12th century, second quarter; Irish
Documents relating to Ireland, excerpts made by or for Sir James Ware from the royal archives at Dublin — 17th century (partly dated 1647); Irish

MS. Rawl. C. 100

Contents:
Hugo Ripelinus — 13th century - 16th century
Constitutions of English church councils, 1222–1268 — 13th century - 16th century
Nicholinus de Camilla, etc. — 13th century - 16th century
Matrimonial proceedings in ecclesiatical court, Notes on canon law — 13th century - 16th century
Johannes Andreae, etc. — 13th century - 16th century
Financial memoranda — 13th century - 16th century
Tabula on Gratian, Decretum — 13th century - 16th century
Financial and astrological memoranda, 1552 (?) — 16th century
Monition in a case of defamation, 1508 — 16th century

MS. Rawl. C. 168

Contents:
Jacobus de Voragine — 14th century and 15th century; English
Missal, Use of Sarum — 15th century, late or 16th century, early; English
Documents chiefly relating to Waterford and Ireland — 14th century and 15th century; English
Year Book, 12 Richard II, Register of writs, etc. — 14th century and 15th century; English

MS. Rawl. C. 332

Contents:
Ralph Hengham (attrib.), etc. — 14th century, beginning

MS. Rawl. C. 348

Contents:
Johannes de Burgo, John Pecham, etc. — 14th century and 15th century

MS. Rawl. C. 398

Contents:
Richard Rede (attrib.), Vigilius Thapsensis, etc. — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Rawl. C. 432

Contents:
Forms of proceedings in the archdiaconal courts of Ely and Norwich — 16th century; English

MS. Rawl. C. 507

Contents:
Statutes of England, Treatise on charters, etc. — 14th century

MS. Rawl. C. 541

Contents:
Statutes of All Saints' Guild, Cambridge, 1473–1504 — 15th century; English, Cambridge

MS. Rawl. C. 712

Contents:
Formularly of ecclesiastical court procedure — 16th century; English

MS. Rawl. C. 775

Contents:
Ranulf de Glanville, John de Morbiria, etc. — 13th century; English

MS. Rawl. D. 556

Contents:
Collection of all the documents of the treaty of Brétigny, 1360 — c. 1500; French

MS. Rawl. G. 109

Contents:
Hugo Primas, Hildebert of Lavardin, etc. — Late 12th or early 13th century. Rigg (p. 476) hypothesizes: The sequence of compilation could have been something like this: (1) Part IV, by A, with red, green and blue decoration; (2) addition of Part I by A; (3) addition of Parts II-III by B: (4) addition of Part V by C; (5) addition of Part VI; (6) quire numbering.; Rigg (p. 480), pointing to similarities between this manuscript and London, British Library, Cotton MS. Titus A. xx, argues that the manuscript was almost certainly written in England. The ‘Frenchness’ of MS. Rawl. G. 109 is explained by the fact that it is a fairly faithful copy of a lost anthology compiled some forty or fifty years earlier, probably in France.

MS. Rawl. statutes 36

Contents:
Form of electing a bishop, abbot, prior, etc. in the diocese of Lichfield, incorporating copies of documents of 1500–1521 — c. 1520–1530; English, Lichfield or nearby
Statutes of Lichfield Cathedral — 15th century; English, Lichfield or nearby

MS. Rawl. statutes 38

Contents:
Statutes of Exeter Cathedral, 1268–1388 — c. 1500; English, Exeter
Statutes of Exeter Cathedral, 1544 — c. 1550; English, Exeter
Taxatio of the collegiate church of Probus, Cornwall — 16th century, second half; English

MS. Sparrow 4

Contents:
Standing orders of a governing body at Venice — 16th century, late (after 1567 (?)); Italian, Venice (?)

St John's College MS. 96

Contents:
Eadmer, Vita Oswaldi etc.

St John's College MS. 136

Contents:
Reginald, canon of Shede, Dogma laicorum; sermon book of Philip, vicar of Wycombe; Grosseteste, Constitutions; Physiologus

MS. Tanner 400

Contents:
Charters relating to John Cobham, Statutes of England, etc. — 13th century and 14th century, beginning; English

MS. Wood empt. 1

Contents:
Statutes of England, Treaty of Calais, etc. — late 14th century and 15th century; English
Cartulary of Glastonbury ('Secretum abbatis') — 1342–1348; English, Glastonbury