Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 559: Notes on French Legal Cases c. 1480

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 559: Notes on French Legal Cases c. 1480

Language:

Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)

Extent:

ff. 32

Dimensions:

257 Height (mm) and 180 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Provenance:

It seems to have been collected and partly copied by Pierre Assailly, examinateur at the Châtelet (but not in G. Dupont-Ferrier, Gallia Regia, IV (1954), pp. 336-40, list of examinateurs at the Châtelet), and he takes an active part in this capacity in at least one of the cases. Probably written in Paris in 1480. Removed in 1952 from the boards of SP.16 Epistole et varii tractatus Pii Secundi Pontificis Maximi(Lyons, 1497), a small octavo book donated to the College by Matthew Parker.

Table of contents:

Notes on French Legal Cases c. 1480

Description:

CCCC MS 559 is a collection of legal material, mostly witness depositions, collected in the later fifteenth century by Pierre Assailly, an official of the Châtelet in Paris and probably copied c. 1480, although containing some material dating originally to the thirteenth century. The 32 leaves that make up this manuscript were removed from Parker's copy of the 1497 edition of the Letters of Pope Pius II printed in Lyons (now SP.16 in the Parker Library) during conservation of that volume in 1952.