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Series
Chancery: Vetus Codex
Catalogue reference: C 153
What's it about?
C 153
This volume, which comes from the Tower of London (it was sometimes known as the Black Book of the Tower), contains an ancient transcript of the Parliament rolls from 1290 to 1307 and 1320-1321.The earliest reference to the Vetus Codex is usually...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 153
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Vetus Codex
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1290-1321
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Description (What the record is about)
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This volume, which comes from the Tower of London (it was sometimes known as the Black Book of the Tower), contains an ancient transcript of the Parliament rolls from 1290 to 1307 and 1320-1321.
The earliest reference to the Vetus Codex is usually taken to be in the patent roll of 1382-1383. However, it is likely that the volume was in use by 1357, if not earlier.
The manuscript is incomplete and is written in a number of different Chancery hands, suggesting that the book was not written all at once, but that copies were being taken from the Parliament rolls for insertion in the Vetus Codex almost as soon as the originals were transcribed.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The Parliament rolls transcibed in this volume are now in SC 9
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Democracy
- Legal
- Literature
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The manuscript is printed with an appendix of illustrative records in William Ryley, Pleadings in Parliament (1661).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3711/
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