MS. Bodl. 559

Summary Catalogue no.: 2343

1. (fol. 8)

Statutes of England (vetera statuta) and tracts

(fol. 8)

Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I

(fol. 10)

Carta de Foresta

(fol. 11)

'Articuli Noui' [super cartas] in French

(fol. 14)

Statuta de Merton

(fol. 15)

Statuta de Marleberga

(fol. 18v)

Statuta de Westmonasterio prima, in French

(fol. 25)

Statuta de Gloucestria, in French, cum explanationibus

(fol. 27)

Statuta de Westmonasterio secunda

(fol. 41v)

Statutum de Westmonasterio tertium [i.e. quia Emptores]

(fol. 42)

Statutum de Westmonasterio quartum [i. e. the Statute of Fines.]

(fol. 43)

Statutum de Mercatoribus, in French

(fol. 43v)

Statutum de Winton, in French

(fol. 45)

Statutum de antiquo dominico coronae

(fol. 45v)

Statutum de vasto facto tempore alieno

(fol. 45v)

Statutum novum de Quo Warranto, in French

(fol. 46)

Rubric: Capitula in itinere

(fol. 46)

Rubric: Gradus consanguinitatis

(fol. 46v)

Statutum de conspiratoribus

(fol. 46v)

Statutum de champertie, in French

(fol. 47)

Statutum de assisa et juratis

(fol. 47)

Statutum de bigamis

(fol. 47v)

Modus calumniandi essonia

(fol. 48)

Statutum de religiosis

(fol. 48)

Statutum de Quo Warranto

(fol. 48v)

Rubric: Circumspecte agatis

(fol. 48v)

Compositio quorundam vocabulorum

(fol. 49)

Extenta manerii

(fol. 49v)

Modus faciendi homagium, in French

(fol. 50)

Modus faciendi fidelitatem, in French

(fol. 50)

Natura wardorum et releviorum, in French

(fol. 50v)

Statutum de ponderibus et mensuris

(fol. 50v)

Assisa panis et cervisiae

(fol. 51)

Statutum de scaccario, in French

(fol. 53)

Districtiones scaccarii, in French

(fol. 53)

Statutum de scaccario

(fol. 54)

Statuta de Exonia and (fol. 55) Articuli super eisdem, in French

(fol. 56)

Regia prohibitio Sub qua forma

(fol. 56v)

Statutum de militibus

(fol. 57)

Statuta armorum, in French

(fol. 57v)

Statutum de anno et die bissextali

(fol. 57v)

Carta de terra de Lagenia Gulielmo Marshall comiti Pembrochiae concessa

(fol. 58)

Statutum de Ragman, in French

(fol. 58v)

Officium coronatorum

(fol. 59)

Modus irrotulationis

(fol. 60)

Rubric: Datur Assisa

(fol. 62)

Summa cadit assisa

Rubric: Cadit Assisa

(fol. 66v)

Ralph de Hengham, Summa parua

Parvum Hengham

(fol. 71v)

Summa bastardiae

(fol. 74)

Ralph de Hengham, Iudicium essoniorum

Summa de dificultate essoniorum

(fol. 75)

On forms of briefs, in Latin and (fol. 78) French. A list of chapters on fols. 8-41 is at fol. 3.

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman

2. (fol. 85)

Ralph Hengham (?), Summa fet asaver

Rubric: Summa que vocatur Fet assauer

A treatise on legal procedure in French: followed at fol. 94v by two short (added) chapters in Latin and French.

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman

3. (fol. 98)

Language(s): Latin

Some legal entries are on fol. 2, and some estate accounts on fol. 131v.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 131 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 9 × 6.5 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 556

Marginal drawings. At fol. 71v is a comic drawing of three dogs playing seesaw, cf. fols. 45, 100.

Initials.

Accompanying Material

Fols. i-ii are a leaf from a 14th cent. legal treatise in Latin, with the name Thomas Fauntleroy (16th cent.).

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'Iste liber constat Guillelmo Emping⟨h⟩am nacionis Anglie', early 15th cent.

'Iste liber constat Roberto Hilton gentilman qui Aliundiit [?] in patria Anglie et magnus gurbernator[sic] de Cancelria Regis de eodem[sic] regione', late 15th cent.

'Hasele of Wynchylse', 16th cent.

Bought with money presented by Owen Wood, dean of Armagh, in 1610.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 318

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 319

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2024-10: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.

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