Volume 1

Munimenta Academica, or, Documents illustrative of academical life and studies at Oxford / by Henry Anstey ; published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.

  • Anstey, Henry, 1827-
Date:
1868
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Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    nature ; these will be identified by the reader by the reference being made, to D. only, on the margin. C.C. is a MS. volume of the latter end of the fifteenth C.C. is of the century, somewhat similar in general appearance, and contains also in contents, to A., B., and C.; but it contains some- similai- matter, what less matter than any of those three MSS., and not nearly so much as the three collectively. It is in very good condition and very legibly written, but full of clerical errors. It would appear that this MS. and D. have been transcribed by or for some chancellor or proctor and kept for their private use, and have thus found their way into private collections ; and thence to the public libraries, D. being now, as above stated, in the Bodleian Library, and C.C. in the British Museum. [Claudius D. 8. Cott. MSS.] This is the last of the MSS. which the editor has been able to discover, of the Chancellor's and Proctor's books. It is the least valuable of them all, and has not been collated throughout, as the other four MSS. have been, in the preparation of these volumes. It remains now to notice the other MSS. here used. Farley's These are marked and generally known as F., Aaa., ^^j^^g and Aa., and may be described as register books of letters, the University. The first [F.] is a thick volume of parchment bound in leather with brazen clasps, and con- tains, interspersed with other matter, a series of letters from and to the University, all of the fifteenth century. It is written throughout apparently by the same hand, at Description of least by f^xr the larger proportion would seem to be so ; nearly the whole is much faded, full of abbreviations, and very difficult to decipher. The letters, &c. afe nearly five hundred in number, many of them very curious. The volume also contains the two catalogues of books given by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, to the University; and the annual entries of payment of money to the University by the Alobeys of Eyns- ham and Oseneye. A large number of the letters are letters testimonial of the University granted to