MS. Bodl. 940
Summary Catalogue no.: 27692
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Collected under 118 headings. The first are ‘De recto’, ‘De recto de rationabili parte’, the last is ‘De forma donacionis’
‘Kalendarium’ added, 15th century, fol. 230v.
Magna Charta, de Foresta, de Merton, de Marlebergh, first of Westminster, de Gloucester, with Explanaciones, second of Westminster.
Lists of chapters at fols. 1, 226v.
A collection of fourteen minor statutes, beginning with the 'Statutum de Medijs' (Quia emptores), Quia fines, De religiosis, Circumspecte agatis: and followed by the Statutum Wynton (fol. 221v) and 'Officium coronatoris' (fol. 224v).
On a fly-leaf, notes of (1) a complaint by John de Arundel, warden of the royal chapel of Tickhill, about a raid on the tithes of Harworth made by men from Nostell Priory (?1326); (2) weights and measures.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 27 lines, written space 140 × 75 mm.
Decoration
Good penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 613)
Pen sketches added, 15th century. (Pächt and Alexander)
Rubrics.
Binding
Blind-stamped leather over pasteboards, Oxford, late 16th or early 17th century.
Roll with initials ‘N.S.’: Oldham, Panels, MWa
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The first writ is dated 1310 (not here dated, but cf. texts in MS. Rawl. C. 246 and MS. Rawl. C. 310).
‘Johannes Paston est verus possessor istius libri’ in mirror writing; ‘Johannes Paston’; fol. i, 15th century: John Paston I, d. 1466 (cf. C. Richmond, The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century II: Fastolf's Will (1996), p. 29).
‘Cursson’ Gregorius dominatur codicus huius’, fol. 232v, early 16th century.
Presented in 1736 by Nathaniel Crynes M.A. of St John's College, Oxford.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Include fuller details of statutes from Summary Catalogue.