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

MS. Wood empt. 12

Summary Catalogue no.: 8600

Contents

Formulary of writs and other documents

A collection of forms similar in part to the Registrum Omnium Brevium, but following a different order (fols 4v-54 are almost exclusively writs to the escheator) and including many commissions and other letters patent

There is a table of contents on fol. vi

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: xxii + 220 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.8 × 6.1 in.

History

Origin: 16th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 217v has 'Liber Georgii Hardley de Clyfford's Inne, aº 1544', cf. fols vi and 84

Anthony à Wood

Bought by the library in 1690

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1937)

Last Substantive Revision

2025-03-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)