A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Add. A. 107

Summary Catalogue no.: 29004

Contents

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman

1. (fol. 1)
Calendar

Generally of the Sarum type, with many interesting additions (1330-1472) connecting the volume with Arundel and the families of Tanke (1360-75), Fitzalan (1449 April 11, William son of William earl of Arundel born), Stafford (1458-69) and others: at Oct. 11 is added 'Sancti Necasij dedicacio ecclesie Arundell'

2. (fol. 11)
Statutes of England (statuta vetera)

Statutes of England from Magna Charta to the Statutum de Karleolo, 1307, preceded by lists of contents, including some undated statutes not here transcribed (for which fourteen blank leaves are left after fol. 89a), and all the treatises which follow in art. 3. Foll. 49, 50, 88 are injured.

3. (fol. 90)

Short legal treatises, twenty-one in number: the first is the 'Magna Hengam' and the last 'Dilaciones breuium.'

Some curious miscellaneous notes occur on foll. 168-9, chiefly local: and on fol. iv 'Les nomis des grauntz seigneurs de Fraunce oscis en la bataille a Crecy ...' Aug. 26, 1346.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 185 ('171') leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.375 × 7.5 in.

Decoration

Good borders.

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 586)

Binding

Faded pink leather on boards, worn, with one leather clasp (out of two) lost, contemporary.

History

Origin: c. 1330 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Col. J. Sidney North

Purchased from him by the Bodleian on Jan. 18, 1871.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from Summary Catalogue (1905). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-12: Description revised to incorporate all information from printed catalogues.