Riley, Henry Thomas, ed., "Liber custumarum," in Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Custumarum (Rolls Series, no. 12. 3 vols. in 4)
Text name(s): Liber custumarum
Number of pages of primary source text: 490
Author(s):
Dates: 1300 - 1350
Archival Reference: BL Cotton Ms Claudius D. II (Ff. 1-135, 266-77); London Guildhall.
Original Language(s):
- Anglo-Norman
- Latin
Translation:
- Translated into English.
- Original language included.
Translation Comments: selections are translated
Geopolitical Region(s):
- England
County/Region: London
Record Types:
- Charters, Deeds
- Court Roll
- Custumal
- Law - Legislation
- Letter
- Taxes
Subject Headings:
- Diplomacy
- Economy - Crafts and Industry
- Economy - Trade
- Family / Children
- Government
- Law - Crime
- Law - Secular
- Royalty / Monarchs
- Towns / Cities
Apparatus:
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Introduction
Comments:
Compilation of civic records, including many city charters, ordinances, and correspondence; royal writs and proclamations; provisions to collect taxes; trade and guild regulations; and records regarding duties of civic officials, city revenues, courts, assizes, disputes with other authorities, and various court cases. Vol. II, Part I contains extracts from the Liber Custumarum. Portions now missing (some found in BL Cottonian Ms Claudius D. II (ff. 1-135, 266-77). Introduction (pp. ix-cxvi); Summary of Contents (cxvii-cxlvii). Text. Vol. II, Part II (1860) continues pagination with text to p 490. English translation of selected passages (pp. 517-623). Appendix I (pp.491-503): List of omitted portions: most are printed in Statutes of the Realm (1810), T. Rymer’s Foedera (1816-25), and Thorpe’s Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (1840). Appendix II: Charter of Wm the Conqueror to London. Appendix III (pp. 505-16): Contents of BL Claudius ms that are in Liber custumarum and Liber Legum Regum ‘Antiquorum’ (pp. 624-92). Glossary of Anglo-Norman, Saxon, and Early English Words (693-780); Glossary of Medieval Latin (781-838); Glossarial Index of Festivals and Dates (841-44); Index 9847-96). See also N. R. Ker, “Liber custumarum and other manuscripts formerly at Guildhall,” Guildhall Miscellany, I, no. 3 (1954): 37-45.
Introduction Summary:
Cataloger: MAK
