MS. Add. A. 107
Summary Catalogue no.: 29004
Contents
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
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'
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.
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
Binding
Faded pink leather on boards, worn, with one leather clasp (out of two) lost, contemporary.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased from him by the Bodleian on Jan. 18, 1871.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-12: Description revised to incorporate all information from printed catalogues.