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

MS. Hatton 10

Summary Catalogue no.: 4135

Contents

1. (fols. 7r–42r)
Abbreviamentum statutorum,

'Accusacions' to 'Worstede'.

Incipit: Null soit attache par son corps

Fol. 42v blank.

Language(s): Anglo-Norman
2. (fols. 43r–95r)
Statutes of England (vetera statuta)
(fol. 43)

'Magna Carta' as confirmed by Edward I, 1300

(fol. 45)

'Carta de Foresta' as confirmed by Edward I

(fol. 46)

'Sentencia lata super Cartas'

(fol. 46v)

'Prouisiones de Merton'

(fol. 47v)

'Statutum de Marlebergh'

(fol. 50)

'Statutum Westmonasteriense primum', in French

(fol. 56)

'Statutum Gloucestriae', in French, cum explanationibus

(fol. 57v)

'Statutum Westmonasteriense secundum'

(fol. 68)

Statutum de mercatoribus, in French

(fol. 69)

Statutum Wintonie, in French

(fol. 70)

Statutum Westmonasteriense tercium

(fol. 70)

Statutum de religiosis

(fol. 70v)

De Scaccario, in French

(fol. 71v)

Districciones Scaccarii, in French

(fol. 71v)

De finibus

(fol. 72v)

Articuli super cartas, in French

(fol. 74)

Assisa panis et servisie

(fol. 74v)

Extenta manerii

(fol. 75)

Assise et consuetudines foreste

(fol. 75v)

De bigamis

(fol. 76)

De libertatibus perquirendis, in French

(fol. 76)

Dictum de Kenilworth

(fol. 77)

De ponderibus, cp. fol. 84

(fol. 77)

Ordinationes Edward ii, in French

(fol. 82)

Statutum Eboraci, in French

(fol. 82v)

Statutum de presentibus vocatis ad warantum

(fol. 83)

De defensione juris

(fol. 83)

Statutum Circumspecte agatis

(fol. 84)

Expositio vocabulorum

(fol. 84v)

Statutum de conjunctim feoffatis

(fol. 85)

Ordinatio foreste

(fol. 85v)

Statutum Exonie, in French

(fol. 88)

Prerogativa regis

(fol. 89)

Statutum de justiciariis assignatis

(fol. 89v) Statutum de Quo warranto et (fol. 90)

statutum novum

(fol. 90)

Statutum de militibus

(fol. 90v)

Statutum de moneta, in French

(fol. 91)

Statutum de vasto

(fol. 91v)

Statutum de champertie et de conspiratoribus, in French and Latin

(fol. 91v)

De ponendis in assisis juratis

(fol. 92)

Statutum de appellatis

(fol. 92)

Statutum de prisonibus

(fol. 92)

Statutum de escaetoribus

(fol. 92v)

De protectionibus non allocandis, in French

(fol. 92v)

De consultationibus

(fol. 92v)

Statutum de finibus et attornatis, here called 'Carliolum primum'

(fol. 93)

Statutum Carliolum secundum

(fol. 93v)

Statutum Lincolnie, de vicecomitibus, in French

(fol. 94)

Statutum Westmonasteriense quartum, in French

(fol. 94v)

'De forinsecis vocatis ad warrantum in hustengo London', 9 Edw. i, in French

(fol. 94v)

Statutum de malefactoribus in parcis.

Fols. 95v-96v blank.

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
(fols. 97r–379r)
Statutes of England (nova statuta), Edward III to Henry VII
(fols. 97r–152v)

Statutes of Edward III

Incipit: Come Hugh le Despenser le pier et Hugh le Despenser le filz
Explicit: nadgairs faitz dez draps de Raye et de colour

As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following additions: a third statute made at Westminster, 1 Edw. III (fol. 99); 'Statutum apud Westmonasterium editum de stapula facta anno vij°' [Edw. III] (fol. 105); two additional statutes made at Westminster, 10 Edw. III (foll. 108v, 109v); a statute made at York, 12 Edw. III (fol. 110); 'Statutum apud Westmonasterium editum anno terciodecimo' Edw. III, in Latin (fol. 110v). The statute of Northampton, 2 Edw. III, occurs twice (foll. 87, 100).

(fols. 153r–187r)

Statutes of Richard II

Incipit: Richard par la grace de Dieu Roy d’Engleterre et de Ffraunce
Explicit: ordeignauncez faitez en temps deldit parlement duraunt
(fols. 188r–209v)

Statutes of King Henry IV

Incipit: Henry p(ar) la grace de Dieu Roy d’Englet(erre) et de Ffraunce
Explicit: en defaute del execution de mesme lestateuit

As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following additions: an additional chapter to 11 Henry IV.

(fols. 210r–225v)

Statutes of King Henry V

Incipit: Henry p(ar) la grace de Dieu Roi d’Englet(er)re et de Ffraunce
Explicit: lez ditz pountz et en lez fossez suisditz perpetuelment

As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following additions: a statute made at Westminster, 5 Henry V (fol. 221); 'Statutum apud Westmonasterium editum anno octavo' Henry V, in Latin (fol. 222); an additional chapter to 1 Henry V.

(fols. 226r–287v)

Statutes of King Henry VI

Incipit: Henry p(ar) la grace de Dieu Roi d’Englet(erre) et de Ffraunce
Explicit: sibi dissensor(um) quia sic lex istius t(er)re vult q(uo)d tunc ip(s)e h(ab)]erent

As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following addition: a second statute made at Westminster, 2 Henry VI, in Latin (fol. 230v).

Fols. 288r-289v blank except for rubric for the following item, fol. 289v.

(fols. 290r–327v)

Statutes of King Edward IV

Incipit: Edwardi p(ar) la grace de Dieu Roy d’Englet(er)re et de Ffraunce
Explicit: apperteignaunt ou en ascune maner fourme regardaunt
(fols. 328v–336r)

Statutes of King Richard III

Rubric: Incipiunt statuta apud Westm' edita anno primo Ricardi tertii
Explicit: et acquitez descharge et acquite pur toutz iours
(fols. 336v–379v)

Statutes of King Henry VII

Rubric: Incipiunt statuta apud Westm' edita anno primo henrici septimi.
Explicit: sounde and also they reyse up the||

The statutes of 4 Henry VII and subsequent years are given in English, the last being that of 11 Henry VII which here ends abruptly in cap. xxvii .

Fols. 380r-381v ruled, otherwise blank. Fols. 382r-389v blank.

Language(s): Anglo-Norman, Latin and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vi + 375 + viii medieval leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 343 × 257 mm.
Foliation: 1-389

Collation

Not fully collatable: too tightly bound. Remains of quire signatures on the outer corner of the first leaf, e.g. fols. 23r ('c'), 31r ('d'), 306r ('dd' (?)). One catchword on fol. 185v, written in the same hand as the main text; it reads “viscomites on.”

Layout

Long lines; lead ruling, 40 lines of text per page; pricking on the outer margins. For the Vetera Statuta (fols. 43r-95r), the name of the relevant statute is provided as the heading at the top of each page. In the Nova Statuta (fols. 97r-379v), regnal year serves as the heading of each verso and the relevant king as the heading of each recto. Written space 227 × 165 mm. Running heads: for the Vetera Statuta (fols. 43r-95r), the name of the relevant statute is provided as the heading at the top of each page. In the Nova Statuta (fols. 97r-379v), regnal year serves as the heading of each verso and the relevant king as the heading of each recto.

Hand(s)

One hand; formal anglicana with secretary influence. Malcolm Parkes identifies the same scribe in ten other statute manuscripts: M. B. Parkes, Their Hands before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes: The Lyell Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1999 (London, 2016), 44-45.

Semi-quadrata script is used for the display script.

Decoration

By two hands: one main artist (identified by Scott in other manuscripts), and fols. 328v and 336v by a different artist from the rest of the MS. The borders of these two fols. contain the of arms of Pigot [see provenance].

Fine historiated and other borders.

Fine initials. Borders and major initials on fols. fols. 43r, 97r, 153r, 188r, 210r, 226r, 290r, 328v, 336v. Minor initials (fols. 7-42) at the beginning of each letter of the alphabet, (Vetera Statuta) the beginning of each statute, (Nova Statuta) the beginning of each regnal year.

Some initials inhabited or historiated: fol. 43r (fool), 290r (king with lay and clerical advisers), 336v (king with lay and clerical advisers).

Additions:

A marginal note in the hand of the original scribe, reading “residuum parte folio sequente,” may be found on fol. 350v. Annotations in an early nineteenth-century hand may be found on fols. 336v, 348r, 350r, and 351r; the same hand is responsible for a note on fol. 6v (one of several end leaves at the start of the manuscript) describing the volume’s contents, which is dated to 1814.

Binding

Contemporary London (?) binding of brown stamped leather over wooden boards (severely worn): panel design: central diaper pattern with latticework stamps, surrounded by alternating stamps of lion passant and six-petalled flower; the tentative attribution to the Half-Stamp Binder (Pächt and Alexander, Scott) should probably be rejected.

History

Origin: 15th century, end (1496 (?)) ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Kathleen Scott identified three bifolia containing the Modus tenendi parliamentorum and the Tractatus de senescalcia Anglie as a stray from the present manuscript: now Chicago, Case MS. 32.1; acquired by the Newberry from Bernard Rosenthal in 1960.

The MS ends with statutes from the eleventh year of Henry VII’s reign and thus could have been finished no earlier than 1495/6. Malcolm Parkes identifies the Hatton 10 scribe’s involvement in ten other manuscripts produced between 1470 and 1492.

Produced probably for Thomas Pygot (d. 1520) of Little Horwood and Whaddon, Bucks., who married Elizabeth Iwardby: arms in the borders of fols. 328v and 336v quarterly Pigot and Iwardby. See J. W. Baker, The Men of Court 1440 to 1550 (2012), II. 1278-9, with the caveat that the quartering of arms would suggest the generation after Thomas.

At the top of fol. 7r, “Mr. Pagitt .2.” is written in a late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand above the main text: unidentified, perhaps a member of the Northamptonshire legal family.

Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton (d. 1670).

Bought, along with most of Hatton’s collection, in 1671 by the Bodleian Library from London bookseller Robert Scot (who had purchased it from the Hatton family itself).

Record Sources

Adapted (Jan. 2025) from the following sources, with additional description by Julia Schroeder and Matthew Holford:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 515
K. L. Scott, ‘A late fifteenth-century group of Nova Statuta manuscripts', Manuscripts at Oxford (Oxford, 1980), 103-5
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 1168
Summary Catalogue (1937)

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (15 images from 35mm slides)

Last Substantive Revision

2025-01: Description fully revised.