Legal miscellany

Title

Legal miscellany

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 176

Place of origin

England

Date

variously ss. xiii 2/2–xiv in.

s. xiv in.

s. xiii/xiv.

s. xiii/xiv or xiv in.

s. xiii2/4

s. xiii2 or xiii ex.

s. xiii2/2

s. xiii ex. or xiii/xiv

Language

Anglo-Norman

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

all on vellum (all FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 215+ iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).

Binding

Modern replacement. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled leaf (iv–vi).

Acquisition

‘Iohannes White de Sutwyke in Comitatu Sutht Armiger dedit hunc librum Thome WhiteMil tornad vsum colegii per ipsum de nouo erecti in Oxon Anno 1555’ (fols. 2v–3, upper margin).

Provenance

Ker, MLGB 181 assigns the book to Southwick (OSA, Hants.)on the basis of localizable documents in MS 4. These certainly refer constantly to ‘Suth”, but this appears usually to mean the county Southamptonshire, not the house Southwick (although a convent ‘Suik’ does appear in one item on fol. 83v). If these documents and forms clearly point to a monastic provenance, it is the frequently repeated ‘conuentus de Hida’, i.e. Hyde (‘New Minster’, Winchester) (see Ker, MLGB 103–4).

Indications of contents, in the hand which customarily inscribed John White’s donations (fol. 1 upper margin, s. xvi).