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High Court of Admiralty: Black Book of the Admiralty
Catalogue reference: HCA 12
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HCA 12
The Liber Niger Admiralitatis, or Black Book of the Admiralty, is an illuminated manual of instruction for the Lord High Admiral. It contains details on the appointment and office of admiral, the conduct of cases in the High Court of Admiralty,...
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HCA 12
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Black Book of the Admiralty
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1450
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Liber Niger Admiralitatis, or Black Book of the Admiralty, is an illuminated manual of instruction for the Lord High Admiral. It contains details on the appointment and office of admiral, the conduct of cases in the High Court of Admiralty, and a section on the examination and punishment of offenders, and includes the Laws of Oléron, a code of maritime law thought to have been compiled in the thirteenth century under English royal authority, initially to govern the Gascon trade which passed by the island of Oléron, off the west coast of France.
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A return to the Society of Advocates concerning the contents of the book is in HCA 30/1044
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty, 1340-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 volume(s)
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Permission is needed to view the original.
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Little is known about the circumstances of the book's compilation, or its early history. The book was consulted at the Admiralty registry by naval historians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but by 1808 it had been lost and the registry clerk claimed that the registry 'had never seen such a book, and knew nothing of it'. It remained missing until the early 1870s.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- An edition of the text is available in T Twiss, The Black Book of the Admiralty (Rolls Series, 55, 1871-1876), 4 vols.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8610/
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