Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.71
Statutes of England
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Language(s): Latin and Middle English
Added in the late 15th- or early 16th-century. The transcribed inscription refers to the hamlet of Nevill Holt, formerly known as Holt or Holt-on-the-Hill, in the Harborough District of Leicstershire.
Added in the 15th century.
Added in the 15th century.
Written in Lombard capitals. Added in the ?15th century.
Added in the 15th century.
Added in the late 15th or early 16th century. The two marks are inscribed: ‘Custos de Winton’ and ‘Richard Vannell’.
Including later (15th-century) additions on ff. j verso-k verso.
Ends imperfectly on f. 155v.
Added by a 15th-century hand.
Not transcribed; added by a 15th-century hand.
Added by a later 14th-century hand.
Added by a 15th-century hand.
Added by a 15th-century hand.
Added by a late 14th-century hand with early 15th-century supplements (Richard II to Henry VI). The length of the reign of Henry VI was not recorded, suggesting that it was ongoing at the time this entry was added.
Added by a late 14th-century hand.
Added by a late 14th-century hand.
Added in the 14th or 15th century.
Added in the 15th century: written upside down, some of the text lost due to wear.
Physical Description
19th- or 20th-century foliation:
[i]-[ii] + a-d + e-l, 1-167 + [iii]-[iv]
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos.Collation
This collation deviates from that provided by M.R. James and the quire signatures written into the manuscript: Quire b has been renamed as Quire 1, which means that all subsequent quire numbers are one ahead of James' quire numbers. It also considers the final quire, which is identified by James as a quinternion followed by a single flyleaf, a possible sexternion or quinternion with two added leaves.
- Quire 18 (ff. e-l)
- Quire 2-1312 (ff. 1-144)
- Quire 1412-1 (ff. 145-155: 12th leaf cancelled)
- Quire 15twelve (ff. 156-167)
18; 2-1312; 1412-1 (12th leaf cancelled); 15twelve
Leaf signatures written in the outer lower corners of the rectos of the first halves of quires: consisting of Roman numerals in blue ink in Quire 1; and combinations of letters and Roman numerals in leadpoint in Quires 2-14: ‘a’-‘l’ (Quires 2-12); ‘x’-‘y’ (Quires 13-14). No leaf signatures in Quire 15.
Catchwords written in the inner lower corners of the last versos of quires.Layout
90 × 60 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only, occasional line ruling. Single columns. 26 lines to the page, written below top line.
Hand(s)
Folios e verso-155v copied by a single hand working in a chancery anglicana script.
Added texts on ff. b recto-c recto copied by a single hand in a script with anglicana features.
Added texts on ff. 156v-167v copied by several hands in scripts with anglicana features.
Decoration
Two diagrams representing swan marks drawn in dark ink on ff. c verso-d recto.
Partial (one-sided) borders in blue or red on the pages with the tables of contents on ff. e verso-j verso.
1 large (8 lines) puzzle initial in blue and red (f. 1r) with, in the same colours: penwork decoration with foliate motifs inside the letter and pen-flourishing extending into the margins.
Large (6-7 lines) blue initials with red penwork decoration inside the letter, featuring foliate motifs, and pen-flourishing in red ink extending into the margins.
Large (2 line) plain initials in blue or red.
Paraphs in blue or red.
Additions
Quire signatures ('1-14') in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, written in pencil by a hand of the 19th/20th century (no longer indicative: see Collation).
Binding
18th- or 19th-century half vellum binding with purple paper sides.
Binding height: 130mm; width: 90mm; depth: 30mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
R. R. (fl. c. 1450-1550) : their initials inscribed on f. a recto: ‘God help [...] R. R.’ and f. l verso: ‘Dieu Ayde R. R.’.
Johannes Braunche (fl. c. 1450-1550) : his name inscribed on f. 167r.
Elizabeth (fl. c. 1450-1550) : her name inscribed twice on f. 167r.
Thomas Marshe (fl. 1618) : his name inscribed with the date 1618 on f. l recto and f. 163r.
Thomas Coleti [Colet] (fl. 17th century) : his ownership inscription on f. d recto: ‘Liber Tho. Coleti’.
One of the manuscripts of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702) , dean of York, antiquary and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. The manuscript is listed as no. 396 (see the inside of the front cover, f. [i] verso, and f. d recto) in the list of Gale's manuscripts in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697). The manuscript also features the possible Gale classmark ‘L 5’, see the inside of the front cover and f. d recto
One of the manuscripts of Roger Gale (1672-1744) , antiquary and scholar, son of Thomas Gale. Inherited from his father.
Donated to Trinity College by Roger Gale (1672-1744) , son of Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), in 1738. The alpha-numerical elements of its current classmark are printed on three three labels pasted onto the spine (‘O.1.71’), and those of its current and previous classmarks are inscribed in the manuscript: inside of the front cover (‘O.1.71’ in ink); f. [i] verso (‘O.1.71’ in ink) Its printed ex libris featuring its armorial coat of arms and name (‘Coll: Trin: Cant:’) pasted on the inside of the front cover. Its modern library stamp on ff. [b] recto and 167r.
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Bibliography
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The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity College , Cambridge: a descriptive
catalogue, James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) (Cambridge, 3, Cambridge University Press, 1902)
Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge Index of Middle English prose, Mooney, Linne R. (Woodbridge, D.S. Brewer, 1995)
Approaching the Bible in medieval England Manchester medieval studies, Poleg, Eyal (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2013)
Funding of Cataloguing
Wellcome (cataloguing). All images provided by Trinity College, Cambridge.
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