Riley, Henry Thomas, ed., "Liber albus," in Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Custumarum Vol I (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (Rolls Series, no. 12.) 3 vols. in 4)
Text name(s): Liber albus
Number of pages of primary source text: 738
Author(s):
Dates: 1200 - 1419
Archival Reference: London Guildhall
Original Language(s):
- Anglo-Norman
- Latin
Translation:
- Translated into English.
- Original language included.
Translation Comments: English with Anglo-Norman selections
Geopolitical Region(s):
- England
County/Region: London
Record Types:
- Charters, Deeds
- Court Roll
- Custumal
- Law - Canon Law
- Letter
- Register - Notarial
Subject Headings:
- Diplomacy
- Economy - Crafts and Industry
- Economy - Trade
- Family / Children
- Government
- Law - Crime
- Law - Secular
- Royalty / Monarchs
- Towns / Cities
- Women / Gender
Apparatus:
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Introduction
Comments:
Compilation of civic records, including oaths, fees, and duties of civic officials; procedures, writs, and pleas in city’s courts; city charters, ordinances, and trade regulations; customs regarding inheritance, dower, freedom admission, and immorality; misc. letters and other documents. Compiled c. 1419 by John Carpenter, the Common Clerk. Vol. III (1862) includes translations of Anglo-Norman passages (pp. 3-286) vol. III, along with glossaries of Anglo-Norman and Early English (289-372) and Medieval Latin words 375-407). Appendices contain extracts from the Assize of Bread ( ‘Assisa Panis’) from 21 Edw I-16 Henry VI; and extracts from the Liber Memorandum, temp. Edw. II. Also includes Glossary to appendices; Index of Festivals; and General Index (479-520) and Index to Appendices. Translation of the whole in H. T. Riley, ed., Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London compiled 1419 (London, 1861). Some passages also translated in H. T. Riley, ed., Memorials of London and London Life, 1276-1419 (London, 1868). See also, William Kellaway, ‘John Carpenter’s Liber Albus’, Guildhall Studies in London History, 3 (1978): 67-84.
Introduction Summary:
Vol. I: Introduction (i-cxii); summary of contents of Liber albus (cxii-cxxxi).
Cataloger: MAK
