Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 559

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- Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 559
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- Parker Library MS 559
Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Languages : Latin, French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Date of Origin :
- 1400 - 1499
Support Material : Paper
Composition :
- ff. 32
Dimensions :
- 180 x 257
Codicological details :
- ff. i + 1-32 + ii

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Résumé : CCCC MS 559 is a collection of legal material, mostly witness depositions, collected in the later fifteenth century by Pierre Assailly, an official of the Châtelet in Paris and probably copied c. 1480, although containing some material dating originally to the thirteenth century. The 32 leaves that make up this manuscript were removed from Parker's copy of the 1497 edition of the Letters of Pope Pius II printed in Lyons (now SP.16 in the Parker Library) during conservation of that volume in 1952.

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Langue(s) des textes : latin, français

1r-32v - Notes on French Legal Cases c. 1480
Note : Fragmentary material concerning legal cases: Maistres Pierre Assailly and Jehan Barbarin v. Jehan l'Auxerroys; Charles, seigneur de Gaucourt, etc., v. Jehan Dandines, 1480; Abbey of Notre-Dame, Ivry-la-Bataille (dioc. Evreux) v. Maistre Jehan Benoist (transcripts of documents, some 13th cent.), 1480, etc. Much of it consists of depositions of witnesses.

Provenance

It seems to have been collected and partly copied by Pierre Assailly, examinateur at the Châtelet (but not in G. Dupont-Ferrier, Gallia Regia, IV (1954), pp. 336-40, list of examinateurs at the Châtelet), and he takes an active part in this capacity in at least one of the cases. Probably written in Paris in 1480. Removed in 1952 from the boards of SP.16 Epistole et varii tractatus Pii Secundi Pontificis Maximi(Lyons, 1497), a small octavo book donated to the College by Matthew Parker.