{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "York" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "At Jesus College, Rotherham probably until its dissolution in 1548. Given to Sidney Sussex College by Dr Joseph Craven (c.1655-1727/8), Master 1723-1728 (see ownership inscription on fol. ii verso<\/a>)." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "ii + 18 Leaf height: 330 mm, width: 240 mm. Written height: 205 mm, width: 140 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "c. 1484" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS 2" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "The second quire (fols 12-18) was added probably c.1500 while the manuscript was kept at Jesus College." }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Yorkshire (England) - History" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Rotherham, Thomas, 1423-1500; Leland, John, 1506?-1552; Nayler, John" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Codex" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "This catalogue entry draws on the description in M. R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge<\/i> (Cambridge, 1895)." }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Original late fifteenth-century binding of blind-tooled red leather with fold-over flap.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "A large section at the bottom left lost, most probably as a result of damp damage." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Written in anglicana<\/i> with rubrics in textura<\/i>.<\/p>

James Willoughby has identified the scribe of fols 12r-15v<\/a> as John Nayler, writing master at Jesus College (Libraries of Collegiate Churches<\/i>, I, pp. 428, 429).<\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

In 1484 Thomas Rotherham (1423-1500), archbishop of York, chancellor of the University of Cambridge and re-founder of Lincoln College, Oxford, established a college at Rotherham, to be called Jesus College. These statutes set out the structure of the college, which was to consist of a provost, three fellows, preferably priests, who were to teach grammar, music, writing and arithmetic, and six choristers. Liturgical requirements include anniversary Masses for Edward IV, Archbishop Rotherham\u2019s parents and, after his death, the archbishop himself, as well as provision for a sung Jesus Mass and Marian antiphons in Rotherham parish church. Administrative provisions include a requirement that an inventory of the college\u2019s possessions be taken on the appointment of a new provost and annually thereafter. An early 17th-century copy of the statutes in BL Cotton MS Vitellius E.x supplies the missing portions of text. An edition of the statutes is in A. F. Leach, Early Yorkshire Schools<\/i>, II, pp. 109-31. <\/p>

The inventory of Rotherham\u2019s gifts, printed in full by M. R. James and by Leach, is of particular value because it itemises the books with which he provided his foundation. Since 1895 it has been recognised that several of these were printed books. An edition and an analysis of the books listed in the two inventories is provided by Willoughby, who identifies printed books in Rotherham\u2019s bequest. <\/p>

Rotherham\u2019s college was dissolved in 1548, under the terms of the 1547 Chantries Act. Fragments of the building, described by John Leland as \u2018sumptuously builded of brik\u2019, survive in College Street, Rotherham.<\/p>

Nicholas Rogers FSA, Archivist, Sidney Sussex College.<\/p>

Digitisation and description generously funded by John Osborn.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Craven, Joseph, c.1655-1727/8" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Statutes of Jesus College, Rotherham" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Nicholas Rogers" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Parchment" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "

The MS consists of 2 quires: