Caius College, statutes, sixteenth century
Scope and Contents
'Statuta Collegii de Gonville et Caius, per Reverendum in Christo patrem Willielmum Batman, Norwicensem Episcopum, et venerandum virum Johannem Caium, artis Medicinæ doctorem, ejusdem Collegii fundatores, edita.' These differ materially from the Statutes, printed in 1852 (from a MS., No. 720, in the Lambeth Library), under the direction of the University Commissioners, Documents, II. 241–319; where this MS. is also printed, pp. 321–365, and is described as a rough draft of the Statutes which Dr Caius designed to give his College during the reign of Q. Mary. It is valuable as, from the manner in which the old code of Bateman is broken up and interpolated with the enactments of Caius, a means is afforded in many places of determining the signification then attached to passages which otherwise would now be of doubtful import. See Note, Documents, II. 320.
Dates
- Creation: sixteenth century
Creator
- Bateman, William, 1298-1355 (Bishop of Norwich) (Person)
- Caius, John, 1510-1573 (scholar and physician) (Person)
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Extent
1 volume(s) (21 leaves, 3 of them blank)
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
From the Library of John Moore (1646–1714), Bishop of Ely (‘Royal Library’), no. 391.
Physical Description
Paper
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