Beinecke MS 11                                                          England, 1704
Statuta collegii reginalis, etc. (partly in English)

          All bibliographical citations for this manuscript refer to
     Documents Relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge (London
     1852) 3 vol.

     1. f. ii    Statuta Collegij Reginalis. Index Statutorum Collegij
     Reginalis. Cap. 1 Praefatio Reginae Fundatricis Pag. 1...37. De
     Interpretatione Statutorum. 62. Finis Index Statutorum. [v. 3, pp. 72-
     73]

     2. pp. 1-63    Statuta Colegii Reginalis. Praefatio Reginae
     Fundatricis. Elizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae et Domina Hiberniae
     dilectis...contraria et repugnantia sub poena incurrendi manifestum
     perjurium ipso facto. [v. 3, pp. 17-55]

     3. pp. 63-89    Interpretationes Statutorum. A. D. 1529 per
     Praesidentem et majorem partem sociorum huius...alii Collegii
     fundationis pro omnibus benefactoribus locum obtinent. Finis. [v. 3, p.
     56 ff.; the manuscript differs considerably from the printed text]

     4. p. 90    Index Interpretationum Statutorum Collegii Reginalis. De
     tempore Aestatis et Hyemis. Pag. 63...De ordine et senioritate Sociorum
     et Bibliotistarum. 89. Finis Interpretationum in hoc libro.

     5. pp. 1-3    Epistle from Queen Elizabeth I dated 1570. [v. 1, pp.
     454-55]

     6. pp. 4-59    Leges siue Statuta Academiae Cantabrigiensis. Deum
     timeto, Regem honorato, Virtutem colito, disciplinis bonis operam
     dato...Unum in communi Arario repositum alterum apud Cancellarium et
     duo Procuratores habeant. Cancellarius: Gulielmus Cecilius.
     Procancellarius: Dr. May, Mr. A. Cath, Procuratores: Thomas Aldridg,
     Reuben Sherwood. Finis. [v. 1, pp. 455-95]

     7. pp. 60-66    Statuta de Oratore eligendo et ejus officio ex Libro
     Procuratorum. Quoniam plerumque periclitata est Respublica
     nostra...ends with a list of orators for the years 1522-1696. [v. 1,
     pp. 431-34; the final portion of this section differs from the printed
     text]

     8. pp. 66-77    Quare's to which the Vicechancellour and head of the
     university are desired to send an answer [followed by Answers; in
     English].

     9. pp. 71-122    Miscellaneous collection of "Interpretationes, decreta
     et statuta" (some in English) ranging in date from 1571-1673 (not in
     chronological order).

     10. pp. 123-124    Index Interpretationum Decretorum et Statutorum
     Academiae Cantabrigiensis. Pag. 60 Statuta de Oratore eligendo et ejus
     officio...[continued on f. i verso at the beginning of the volume where
     it ends:] 120 Instructions to the Vicechancellour and Heads for
     Government, by Charles I.

          Paper (no watermarks), ff. ii (contemporary paper) + 90 + 124
     (pagination by original scribe), 183 x 117 (170 x 95) mm. Written in
     ca. 30 long lines; frame-ruled in ink; two vertical bounding lines
     along left side of writing area to form narrow column for chapter
     numbers and notations.
          The codex is too brittle to be collated; no signatures or
     catchwords.
          Written by a certain Langwith according to a note on f. i recto
     (see below); a fine calligraphic italic hand.
          Binding: s. xviii. Written upside down in a brown calf, blind-
     tooled, ready-made blank book. Split along spine.

          Written apparently by the copyist Langwith (probably Benjamin,
     1684?-1743, who received his degree from Cambridge in 1704) on 5
     October 1704, for John Hayes; inscription on f. i recto: "Langwith writ
     over these Statutes for me (out of Mr. Bedford's Book). I gave him a
     guinea for his pains. October 5 1704." Signature of John Hayes
     (publisher of Statuta quaedum academiae cantabrigiensis...[Cambridge,
     1684]), inside front cover; followed by note; "Of two statutes, the
     restraining doth bind/ If neither restrain, the latter doth bind."
     Bookplate of James Bindley (1739-1818); autograph note inside front
     cover: "This Volume contains the Statutes of Queen's College Cambridge
     and also those of the University itself J.B." Bindley sale (Evans,
     1819, 3, no. 925) to Richard Heber (1773-1833); his sale (London, 1836,
     9, no. 20) to Rodd. Sold by Thorpe (Cat. 1863, no. 148) to Sir Thomas
     Phillipps (no. 9314 on f. i recto); his sale (London, 1895, no. 124) to
     Ridler. Sale by Sotheby's (27 Feb. 1899, no. 390) to Dobell (Cat. 24,
     1923, no. 80); sold by him in 1924 to James Hosmer Penniman of
     Philadelphia who presented it to the Penniman Memorial Library of
     Education of Yale University in the same year.

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 163, no. 11.

Barbara A. Shailor