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MS. Douce 98

Summary Catalogue no.: 21672

Contents

1.
Statutes of England (vetera statuta) and tracts
1. (fol. 7)

Magna Carta

Statutes of the Realm I (1810) [= SR], 114, confirmation of 25 Edw. I; lacking first leaf.

2. (fol. 9v)

Carta de foresta.

SR 1.120, confirmation of 25 Edw. I

3. (fol. 11v)

Sentencia lata super cartas.

SR 1.6

4. (fol. 12)

Confirmacio cartarum praedictarum.

SR 1.123

5. (fol. 13)

Confirmacio regis Edwardi apud Westmonasterium.

SR 1.126, preamble to De finibus

6. (fol. 14)

Statutum novum de finibus levatis et levandis.

SR 1.128, De finibus c. 1

7. (fol. 14)

Modus levandi exitus de scaccario.

SR 1.128, De finibus c. 2

8. (fol. 14v)

Statutum novum ad gaolam deliberandam.

SR 1.128, De finibus c. 3

9. (fol. 14b)

De inquisicionibus et recognicionibus capiendis tempore vacacionis.

SR 1.130, De finibus, c. 4

10. (fol. 14b v)

Assisa foreste.

Incipit: Si akun forester iure
11. (fol. 15v)

Modus faciendi extenta manerii.

SR 1.242, Extenta manerii

12. (fol. 16v)

Provisiones de Mertona.

SR 1.1, Merton

13. (fol. 18v)

Statuta de Mareberge.

SR 1.19, Marlborough

14. (fol. 23)

Provisiones Gloucestrie.

SR 1.47, Gloucester

15. (fol. 26v)

Prima statuta Westmonasterii.

SR 1.26, Westminster I

16. (fol. 36)

Secunda statuta Westmonasterii.

SR 1.71, Westminster II

17. (fol. 54v)

Tercium statutum Westmonasterii.

SR 1.106, Quia emptores

18. (fol. 55)

Statutum contra rcgiam prohibicionem allocandam.

SR 1.121, Circumspecte agatis.

19. (fol. 55)

Statutum contra regiam prohibicionem, quod laici impetrant.

J. H. Baker, with J. S. Ringrose, Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (1996), p. 54 art. 41; cf. SR. 1.121

20. (fol. 55v)

Statutum de religiosis.

SR 1.51, De viris religiosis (mortmain)

21. (fol. 56)

Statuta milicie.

SR 1.229

22. (fol. 56v)

Statutum de libertate clamanda quo warranto.

SR 1.45; Latin.

23. (fol. 58)

Statutum de presentibus vocatis ad warrantum.

SR 1.108

24. (fol. 58v)

Novum quo warranto.

cf. SR 1.107, here a shorter text in French

25. (fol. 58v)

Statuta de bigamis.

SR 1.42

26. (fol. 59v)

Statutum de justicia assignata.

SR 1.44, Rageman

27. (fol. 60)

Statutum de recognitionibus juratis et assisis.

SR 1.113, De illis qui debent poni in juratis et assisis

28. (fol. 60v)

Statutum de conspiratoribus.

SR 1.216

29. (fol. 61)

Statuta de scaccario.

SR 1.197

30. (fol. 62)

Districtiones de scaccario.

SR 1.198

31. (fol. 62v)

Statutum de vasti facto tempore alieno.

SR 1.109

32. (fol. 63)

Statutum de gavletle.

SR 1.222

33. (fol. 63v)

Statuta de mercatoribus, edita apud Acton Burnel.

SR 1.53

34. (fol. 65)

Addicio super statutum de Acton Burnel.

SR 1.98, Statutum mercatorum II

35. (fol. 67)

Statuta Wyntoniensia.

SR 1.96, Winchester

36. (fol. 69)

Statuta de moneta.

SR 1.219 (Caernarvon)

37. (fol. 70)

Statuta Exestrie.

SR 1.120, Exeter

38. (fol. 72v)

Dictum de Kenilworthe.

SR 1.12

Fols. 75-82 are an added quire.

39. (fol. 75)

Statutum editum apud Lincolniam.

SR 1.142 (De eschaetoribus, 29 Edw. I)

40. (fol. 75v)

Statutum de conjunctim feoffatis.

SR 1.145, 34 Edw. I

41. (fol. 76v)

Statutum admissionis juris defendatorum.

SR 1.110 (De defensione juris, 20 Edw. I), here in French

42. (fol. 77)

Novi articuli.

SR 1.136, Articuli super cartas, 28 Edw. I

43. (fol. 80v)

Statutum Lincolniense de vicecomitibus faciendis.

SR 1.174, 9 Edw. II

44. (fol. 81)

Statutum Eborum.

SR 1.177 (York, 12 Edw. II)

47. (fol. 104)
Excepciones contra brevia.

Baker, p. 70 art. 9

48. (fol. 107)
Modus faciendi homagium.

Baker, p. 58, SR I.227

49. (fol. 107)

Assisa panis, quae observanda est in Anglia.

SR 1.199

50. (fol. 107v)

Lucrum pistoris.

SR 1. 200

51. (fol. 107v)

Assisa cervisie.

SR 1.199

52. (fol. 107v)

Judicium pillorie.

SR 1.201

53. (fol. 108)

Exposicio quorundam vocabulorum.

Baker, pp. 62, 100 distinguishes variant versions of the text.

54. (fol. 108v)

Unde omnes mensurarum harum origines.

Incipit: Per discretionem totius populi Anglie
55. (fol. 108v)

De ponderibus.

SR 1.205

56. (fol. 109v)

Sacramentum regis in coronacione.

SR I.168; Baker p. 428; the form used by Edward II. A contemporary addition.

59. (fol. 129v)
Judicium essoniorum.
60. (fol. 134b)

La nature des assoignes

Incipit: La nature des assoignes freit bon asauer
61. (fol. 134b v)

Modus calumpniandi essonia.

SR I.217

62. (fol. 135)
Modus componendi brevia.

Baker, pp. 55-6

63. (fol. 138v)

Diffinicio brevis de recto

Baker p. 55, 'Definitiones brevium, circa breve de recto'

64. (fol. 140)

Summa de tenuris diversorum tenementorum.

Baker, p. 569: 'Summa de tenuris'

65. (fol. 141)

Diversa dampna in duplo et triplo.

Baker pp. 62-3

66. (fol. 143)

Detencio namii

Incipit: Detenue de naame pur fere destreces pertent al la coroune

In French; cf. Latin text in Harvard, Law School Library, MS. 80, fols. 92r–96r

67. (fol. 148v)

Articuli in itinere justicis.

Incipit: Issi comencent les vels et les novels

Cf. SR 1.233, capitula itineris, here in French

68. (fol. 154)

Articuli corone.

Incipit: Adeprimes ausitost que les corouners eyent mandement

Cf. SR 1.40, Officium coronatoris, here in French.

69. (fol. 155)

Tractatus de antiquo dominico corone.

Incipit: Licet in antiquo

Baker, pp. 49-50

70. (fol. 155v)

Statutum de anno bissextili.

Ordinance of 1 July 18 Edw. I

71. (fol. 156)

Visus franciplegii.

Articles of the view of frankpledge, in Latin.

72. (fol. 156v)

Prerogativa domini regis.

SR 1.226

73. (fol. 158)

Leges villae Norhampton.

Northampton customal of c. 1190; Bateson, Borough Customs (Selden Soc. 18), pp. xli-xliv

74. (fol. 160)

Consideraciones Norhampton per xxiiij. jurates.

Northampton customal of c. 1260; Bateson, Borough Customs (Selden Soc. 18), pp. xli-xliv

75. (fol. 164)
Casus placitorum

Casus erudicionum.

Incipit: Le bref de mort dauncestor

Dunham, Casus placitorum, p. lxxii (his MS. 6).

76. (fol. 172)

Articuli excartoris[sic].

Cf. SR 1.238, but the text here varies; a contemporary addition.

77. (fol. 173)
Summa bastardie.

Baker pp. 65-6

78. (fol. 177v)
Curia baronis rymee
Rubric: Incipit curia baronum.
Incipit: Cely qe veut estre tenu pur sage

In French verse; Baker, p. 589, not listing this copy.

79. (fol. 181)

Dies communes in Banco.

SR 1.208

80. (fol. 181v)

Dies communes in placito dotis.

SR 1.208

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
2. (fol. 182)
Robert Grosseteste, Rules for the household of the Countess of Lincoln
Rubric: Sci comencent les Reules qe le bon eueske de Nichole [i.e. Lincoln] seynt Robert Groseteste fist alla Contesse de Nichole
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
3. (fol. 187v)
Walter of Henley, Husbandry
Rubric: Cest le dite de Hosbonderye qe ... fist ... sire Wauter de Henle
Final rubric: Explicit Dictamen Hosbonderie
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
4. (fol. 194v)
List of English towns

Names of over a hundred English towns with their chief produce or characteristic, in French: beg. 'Baronnie de Loundres': examples are 'Escole de Oxenford', 'Escarlet de Nichole', 'Anguyles de Cantebrugge': followed by a list of counties grouped according to dioceses.

Language(s): Anglo-Norman
5. (fol. 196)
Register of writs
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 261)
Britton (legal treatise)
Rubric: Summa que dicitur Brito

Wanting the last leaf of the text and one or two leaves of the list of contents.

Language(s): Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 397 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 155 mm.

Layout

1 col., 33 lines, 160 × 100 mm.

Decoration

Borders.

Historiated initial.

Good penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 582, pl. LVIII)

Binding

18th(?)-century binding with title 'Lex Anglicana perantiqua' on spine.

History

Origin: c. 1320–1330 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) from the following sources, with limited additional description of fols. 7r-181v, and reference to published literature as cited.
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 454
Pächt and Alexander (1973)
Summary Catalogue (1897)
Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 520
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 521

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Matthew Holford: Add fuller content description from Summary Catalogue and 1840 catalogue.