Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives, MS Collect. Admin. 3
- Source
- Cambridge Digital Library
- Library
- Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives
- Shelfmark
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- MS Collect. Admin. 3
- Biblissima authority file
- Date
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- c.1390-c.1483
- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Old Proctor's Book
- Description
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This book contains a compilation of statutes, charters, orders, oaths etc. prepared for the use of the Proctors, the Chancellor’s executive officers. For the earliest material, a date after c.1385-9 is indicated by the inclusion of the obit of Master William Gotham in the Calendar (f.1v), and a date before 1396 suggested by the absence of a statute relating to the commemoration of the Chancellor Michael de Causton. Originally containing all the statutes by which the University was then ruled, the book’s creation may have been a result of the reorganisation of records after the partial destruction of the University’s muniments during the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. Other portions of the book are now to be found in the Senior Proctor’s Book (classmark: UA Collect.Admin.1 ff.60r-80v) and Junior Proctor’s Book (classmark: UA Collect.Admin.2 ff.107r-110v), first commissioned in the 1490s. Marginal annotations in the form “Stat. Antiq.” made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Dr Parris, Vice-Chancellor 1747-8, and Joseph Romilly refer to the statutes copied into the Senior Proctor’s Book and as issued in the editio princeps in 1785.
Jacqueline Cox, Keeper of the University Archives
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- Preferred form
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- Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- Original form
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- Cambridge
- Other form
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- England, Cambridge
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- Biblissima portal
- Biblissima authority file
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- Rights
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