Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 377: English Statutes
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 377 contains three distinct items, seemingly with no connection to each other. The first is a twelfth-century Calendar which James, somewhat elliptically, described as having 'a certain German flavour'. The second item, which makes up the greater part of the manuscript, is a late fourteenth-century collection of English statutes (or material such as writs and letters patent conventionally accorded the status of statutes). To this has been added the third item, a fifteenth-century list of religious who possessed temporalities in the diocese of Ely. Nothing is known of how these disparate texts came to be included in the same codex, or how it came into Parker's possession, if indeed it was not he who combined them from separate codices.
- Contents
- Kalendar -- Magna Carta -- Carta de foresta -- Confirmatio cartarum -- Sententia excommunicationis per Edwardum I -- Statute 'de tallagio' -- Statute of Merton (1235) -- Statute of Marlborough (1267) -- Statute of Gloucester (1278) -- 'Explanationes' of the Statute of Gloucester (1278) -- Statute of Westminster I (1275) -- Statute of Westminster II (1285) -- Quia emptores (1290) -- Statute of merchants (1283) -- De libertate clamanda (The Statute of Gloucester pt I) -- Circumspecte Agatis (pt II) (1285)1285 -- Statute of money (1284) -- Statute of fines (1299) -- Statute of Gavalet in London -- Statute of Quo warranto (1278) -- Statute of Quo warranto (1290)1290 -- Statute of jurors (1305 ?) -- Statute of conspirators (1305) (Champerty ?) -- Assisa de ponderibus et mensuris (pt I) -- Extenta manerii (Manorial extents) -- Statute of the exchequer (1275) -- 'Distinctiones' of the Statute of the exchequer (1275) -- Statute of mortmain (1279) -- Visus franci plegii -- Assisa de ponderibus et mensuris -- Capitula of pleas in eyre -- Dies communes de banco (1267) -- Dies communes de dote (1267) -- Pleas of the crown -- Statute of Winchester (1285) -- Spiritual and temporal returns of the Diocese of Ely
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xii late, xiv and xv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wm843kn4832/MS_377.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nt932rn6561/377.pdf
- Contains
-
- Kalendar. 1r-8v
- Nasmith
- Kalendarium. 1r-8v
- Note
-
Kalendar in black, green and red
(1r) January 14. Translatio Sancte Fidis in red 31. Ypoliti Martiris
(1v) February 1. Brigide Virginis 7. Dionisii 15. Victoria Christi, diabolus a domino recessit. Different ink 16. Iuliane Virginis et martiris. Different ink
(2r) March 1. Albini 18. Edwardi Regis et Martiris 19. Ioseph sponsi marie 20. Cuthberti 23. Adam creatus est 24. hic captus est Iesus a iudeis. Different ink
(2v) April 22. Dionisii cum sociis 30. Erconwoldi Episcopi
(2v) April 3 and May 12 (f. 3r). Pancracii
(2v) April 25 and May 18 (f. 3r). Marci Ewangeliste
(3r) May 19. Dunstani 20. Ethelberti Martiris
(3v) June has a good many additions (xiii). Original entries are 5. Bonefacii Archiepiscopi et Martiris Botulfi 20. Crispini Martiris Albani Etheldride
(4v) August 5. Oswaldi 24. Audoeni episcopi in green
(5v) October 4. Francis has been written over an original entry 10. Gereon 12. Wilfrid 23. Seuerini episcopi in colona
(6r) NovemberMartin in green Eadmundi Regis et Martiris
(6v) December 26. Lapidacio Sancti Stephani 29. bonifacii episcopi
There is a certain German flavour about this
On f. 7v (a slip) are notes
(7v) Nomina IIIm Magorum, Iaspar, Babtizar, Melchion. Nomina duorum latronum cum domino pendentium samatros et dismos
(7v) Petrus et paulus requiescunt Rome. Andreas Simon et Iudas et Mathias constantinopoli Johannes Zebedeus epheso. Iacobus frater eius gallicie. secundum quosdam. Iacobus frater domini ierosolimis. Matheus salerne. Bartholomeus boneuento. Tomas in edissa ciuitate indie. Philippus in cicilia (corr. to S-) in ecclesia ab ipso constructa
(7v) Other less interesting notes
(8v) Flyleaf, the end of a comment on the Apocalypse: fine black hand of cent. xiii-xiv - Explicit
- (8v) colorum est uarietas. virtutum multiplicatas
- Rubric
- (8v) Expliciunt lectiones libri apocalypsi Iohannis apostoli
- Magna Carta. 9r-12r
- Nasmith
- Magna carta 9 E. 1. 9r-12r
- Carta de foresta. 12r-13v
- Nasmith
- Carta de libertatibus forestae. 12r-13v
- Confirmatio cartarum. 14r-15r
- Nasmith
- Confirmatio earundem per Edwardum I. 14r-15r
- Sententia excommunicationis per Edwardum I. 15r-15r
- Nasmith
- Sententia excommunicationis. etc., ut supra. 15r-15r
- Statute 'de tallagio'. 15r-15v
- Nasmith
- Statutum de tallagio. 15r-15v
- Statute of Merton (1235). 15v-17v
- Nasmith
- Provisiones de Mertona. 15v-17v
- Statute of Marlborough (1267). 17v-22r
- Nasmith
- Statutum de Marleburg. 17v-22r
- Statute of Gloucester (1278). 22r-24v
- Nasmith
- Statuta Gloucestriae. 22r-24v
- 'Explanationes' of the Statute of Gloucester (1278). 24v-25r
- Nasmith
- Explanationes Gloucestriae. 24v-25r
- Statute of Westminster I (1275). 25r-34r
- Nasmith
- Statut. Westmonasterii prim. 25r-34r
- Statute of Westminster II (1285). 34r-51v
- Nasmith
- Statut. Westmonasterii secund. 34r-51v
- Quia emptores (1290). 51v-52r
- Nasmith
- Statut. de emptoribus terrarum. 51v-52r
- Statute of merchants (1283). 52r-53v
- Nasmith
- Statut. de mercatoribus. 52r-53v
- De libertate clamanda (The Statute of Gloucester pt I). 53v-54v
- Nasmith
- Statut. de libertate clamanda. 53v-54v
- Circumspecte Agatis (pt II) (1285). 54v-55r
- Nasmith
- Statut. de prohibitionibus. 54v-55r
- Statute of money (1284). 55r-55v
- Nasmith
- Statut. de moneta. 55r-55v
- Statute of fines (1299). 55v-56v
- Nasmith
- Statut. de finibus. 55v-56v
- Statute of Gavalet in London. 56v-57r
- Nasmith
- Statutum de Gavaleto. 56v-57r
- Statute of Quo warranto (1278). 57r-57v
- Nasmith
- Statutum de quo warranto. 57r-57v
- Statute of Quo warranto (1290). 57v-58r
- Nasmith
- Statutum novum de quo warranto. 57v-58r
- Statute of jurors (1305 ?). 58r-58v
- Nasmith
- Statut. de juratoribus. 58r-58v
- Statute of conspirators (1305) (Champerty ?). 58v-58v
- Nasmith
- Statut. de conspiratoribus. 58v-58v
- Assisa de ponderibus et mensuris (pt I). 58v-59r
- Nasmith
- Compositio monetae et mensurarum. 58v-59r
- Extenta manerii (Manorial extents). 59r-59v
- Nasmith
- Extenta manerii. 59r-59v
- Statute of the exchequer (1275). 59v-60v
- Nasmith
- Statutum de scaccario. 59v-60v
- 'Distinctiones' of the Statute of the exchequer (1275). 60v-62r
- Nasmith
- Distinctiones scaccarii. 60v-62r
- Statute of mortmain (1279). 62r-62v
- Nasmith
- Statutum de religiosis. 62r-62v
- Visus franci plegii. 63v-64r
- Nasmith
- Visus franci plegii. 63v-64r
- Assisa de ponderibus et mensuris. 64r-64v
- Nasmith
- Statutum de ponderibus et mensuris. 64r-64v
- Capitula of pleas in eyre. 64v-66r
- Nasmith
- Capitula quae placitantur in itinere. 64v-66r
- Dies communes de banco (1267). 66r-66v
- Nasmith
- Dies communes in banco. 66r-66v
- Dies communes de dote (1267). 66v-67r
- Nasmith
- Dies in placito dotis. 66v-67r
- Pleas of the crown. 67r-68v
- Nasmith
- Ordo de placitis coronae. 67r-68v
- Statute of Winchester (1285). 69r-72v
- Nasmith
- Statutum Wintoniensis. 69r-72v
- Note
- (71v) An original list of the statutes is on f. 63v
- Spiritual and temporal returns of the Diocese of Ely. 73r-87v
- Nasmith
- Valorem omnium possessionum tam spiritualium quam temporalium in dioecesi Eliensi. 73r-87v
- Rubric
- (73r) Decanatus Cantebrigie
- Incipit
- (73r) Ecclesia beate marie cantebrigie vi (?) iiiid, etc.
- Rubric
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(73r) Decanatus de Campes.
(73v) Decanatus de Chesterton
(74r) Nomina religiosorum habentium spiritualia tantum in diocesi Eliensi
(74v) Nomina religiosorum habentium temporalia tantum in diocesi Eliensi
(75r) Nomina religiosorum habentium bona spiritualia et temporalia in diocesi Eliensi - Note
- The remainder of the return is occupied almost wholly with a detailed list of the spirituals and temporals held by each of the religious named
- Kalendar. 1r-8v
- TJames
- 340
- Stanley
- 17. 1
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/qt729hp8274
- MS 377
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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