A Proverbs, legal texts, etc., in Latin and Anglo-Norman; England, late 12th century. B Assize of Clarendon, Inquest of sheriffs, Magna Carta; England, early 13th century. C Instituta Knuti, Coronation Charter of Henry I, etc. England, late 12th century.

Title

A Proverbs, legal texts, etc., in Latin and Anglo-Norman; England, late 12th century. B Assize of Clarendon, Inquest of sheriffs, Magna Carta; England, early 13th century. C Instituta Knuti, Coronation Charter of Henry I, etc. England, late 12th century.

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. C. 641

Place of origin

England

Date

12th century, late

13th century, first third (?) (partly after 1215)

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Anglo-Norman

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Binding

17th- or 18th- century calf over pasteboards, extensively repaired in the 19th century. Pricks marking out the medieval sewing stations are visible, especially in parts A and C.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Apparently made up from three independent units (A fols. 1-18, B fols. 19-27, C fols. 30-45), perhaps only combined in the 16th century when the legal contents of all three parts were heavily annotated by a single hand. Unit C, fols. 30-45, was apparently in the fifteenth century part of a larger legal manuscript; see further item 12 below. Parts A and C may however have shared a common earlier provenance based on similarities of script and decoration and prickings for binding.

The annotator collated the text of item 2 against 'Mr Lucas boke' and quoted 'Fabian' as an authority (fol. 30r).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755; his source of acquisition not known.

Title

Leges Edwardi Confessoris; Constitutions of Clarendon (in French verse); Proverbs; Assize of Clarendon; Inquest of sheriffs (1170); Magna Carta; Instituta Cnuti; Leges Willelmi Conquestoris

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. C. 641

Date

12th-13th century

Language

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Latin

Physical extent

1 item