MS. Hatton 109

Summary Catalogue no.: 4049

1. (fol. 7)

Statutes of England, vetera statuta, selection (fol. 7) 'Communes dies in banco'; (fol. 7) 'Communes dies de dote': (foll. 8, 13v) Statute of Circumspecte agatis, 1285: (fol. 8) 'Responsiones domini regis Anglie super articulis propositis ex parte prelatorum', 1280: (fol. 14v) sentence of excommunication passed upon transgressors of the Forest Charter, 1283, with the rubric 'Sentencia lata de foresta'.

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 17)

Constitutions of Church councils

'Constitutiones Octoboni', 1268, with the omission of artt. 6 and 47

(foll. 46, 56v) 'Constitutiones domini Stephani quondam Cantuar: archiepiscopi apud Oxon: edite', 1222

(fol. 55) 'Constitutiones episcoporum tocius Anglie apud Merton edite', 1305, incomplete

(fol. 62v) 'Hec sunt sentencie quater in anno in sancta ecclesia publicande'

(fol. 64v) 'Statutum domini regis Circumspecte agatis', 1285

(fol. 65v) 'Constitutiones Otonis', 1237

(fol. 76v) 'Articuli editi per dominum Symonem [Mepham] Archiepiscopum Cant:', 1328

(fol. 80) 'Constitutiones de Lambyhd', 1261

(fol. 91*) minor constitutions of archbishop John Pecham and pope Martin v

(fol. 92v) 'Constitutiones domini Johannis de Stratford, Cant: archiepiscopi', 1342.

A table of the incipits and rubrics of the chapters of the Constitutions of Ottobon has been added in a 15th-cent. hand at fol. 106, and there are a few 15th-cent. canon-law notes on foll. 1 and 2v.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 111 leaves, in double columns

Dimensions (binding): 5.75 × 3 .875 in.

Decoration

Illuminated capitals.

Binding

Red leather on boards, with portion of strap, contemporary English work.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'Iste liber constat magistro Ricardo Salter, decretorum doctori' (early 16th cent.). Richard Salter, principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1504-10 and precentor of Lichfield 1505-19.

Christopher, first Baron Hatton (d. 1670)

Bought in 1671 by the Bodleian through the London bookseller Robert Scot (b. in or before 1632, d. 1709/1710); see Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 801