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MS. Rawl. C. 292

Summary Catalogue no.: 15332

Statutes of England; register of writs; England, c. 1321

Contents

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman

1. (fol. 1)

Table of chapters of statutes

Statutes of England (statuta vetera) to 1320.
3. (fol. 105)

Magna Carta (Edw. I, inspeximus of 9 Hen. III)

4. (fol. 108v)

Carta de foresta.

5. (fol. 110)

Provisiones de Merton.

6. (fol. 112)

Statuta de Marleburgh.

7. (fol. 117)

Statutum Westmonasteriense primum.

8. (fol. 126v)

Statutum Gloucestriae.

9. (fol. 129)

Explanations ejusdem.

10. (fol. 129v)

Statutum Westmonast. secundum.

11. (fol. 147v)

Statutum Westmonast. quartum; de emptoribus.

12. (fol. 148)

De mercatoribus.

13. (fol. 150)

De religiosis.

14. (fol. 151)

Statutum Wyntoniae.

15. (fol. 152v)

Articuli ejusdem.

16. (fol. 153)

Statutum de conjunctim feoffatis.

17. (fol. 154)

De vocatis ad warantum.

18. (fol. 154v)

De warantia cartae.

19. (fol. 155)

De iis qui ponendi sunt in assisis.

20. (fol. 155v)

Regia prohibitio.

21. (fol. 156)

Articuli contra prohibitionem.

22. (fol. 156v)

Summa de wardis et releviis.

23. (fol. 157)

De essoniis calumniandis.

24. (fol. 157)

Visus franciplegii.

25. (fol. 158)

Statutum de chaumpatoribus.

26. (fol. 158)

De quo waranto primum.

27. (fol. 159)

De quo waranto secundum.

28. (fol. 159)

De conspiratoribus.

29. (fol. 159v)

De finibus.

30. (fol. 161)

Statutum Lincolniae; 9 Edw II.

31. (fol. 161v)

Statutum Ebor.; 12 Edw. II.

32. (fol. 163)

De attinctis; 14 Edw. II.

(fol. 165)
Forms of letters

(from a scholar at Oxford originally from Leicestershire)

Language(s): Latin
(fol. 166)
Sixty-nine grammatical verses on verbs.
Language(s): Latin

Endleaves: fragments of a bailiff's account.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 164 + ii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 145 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 38 lines, 180–183 × 90 mm.

Decoration

By the Ancient 6 Master. Pächt and Alexander iii. 576, pl. LVI:

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials (fol. 9r, fol. 105r, King enthroned)

Binding

White whittawed leather binding over boards (period 3), with traces of fore-edge painting.

History

Origin: c. 1321 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

First writ, beginning 'Edwardus dei gracia...', is dated 'Teste me ipso apud Westm. viij. die Octobris anno regni nostri duo decimo'. The statutes, in which script and decoration are the same as in the Registrum, are on fols. 105-64; the last is 'de attinctis' of 14 Edward II, 1321, so the date of the first writ in the Registrum must be 12 Edward II, 1318.

On the back pastedown is 'Iste liber ⟨est (s.xiv ex), the name not being recoverable by ultraviolet light.

Thomas Hearne: “Tho. Hearne, Aug. 23, 1707.”

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (Sept. 2024) from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 669
Pächt and Alexander III (1973), no. 576
W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900)

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.