Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 070: Leges Anglorum
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 70 contains a number of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet legal tracts, including the text of the Quadripartitus and the Leges Henrici Primi. It was written by or for Andrew Horn (c. 1275-1328) in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, probably to serve as a private compilation of precedents able to inform any discussions of the customs of the City of London. It is one of the manuscripts that Horn, a prominent City fishmonger and Chamberlain of London (1320-28), bequeathed to the London Guildhall and was at one time almost certainly bound up with the material that is now contained in CCCC MS 258. This provenance is neatly established by the presence within the manuscript of a drawing of a fish accompanied by the words 'Horn mihi cognomen Andreas est mihi nomen'.
- Contents
- Leges Anglorum --
Description
| Alternative title | Leges Anglorum |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 98 |
| Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1325] |
| Language | Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | mostly 48 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 288 |
| Width (mm) | 196 |
| Collation | 1(12) (+1*) 2(4) (+1) 3(8) 4(10) 5(12)-8(12) 9(10) 10(4). |
| Writing | in charter-hand, and another (pp. 75-104) of more book-type |
| Foliation | ff. i-iv + pp. 1-196 + ff. v-vi |
| Provenance | On p. 101 in red in lower margin: Horn mihi cognomen Andreas est mihi nomen. Above is a small drawing of a fish. The same line occurs (with others) in the unique copy of the Speculum Justitiariorum (MS 258). See Professor Maitland's Introduction to the latter (Selden Society 1893 Mirror of Justices, Whittaker and Maitland, p. 70 sqq.). |
| Research | This manuscript has been studied by Dr Liebermann (Ueber die Leges Anglorum, Halle 1894). The collection contained in it is called by him Leges Anglorum saeculo xiii ineunte Londoniis collectae. In the Gesetze p. xxi he calls the MS. Co. and assigns it to 1310-15. He makes use of its text. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xiv (early) |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 63 bis |
| Stanley | F. 6 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gb557fv6938 |
| Location | MS 070 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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