LARGE DOCUMENT, BY WHICH THE CHAPTER OF ARRAS CATHEDRAL REVISES ITS STATUTES, IN LATIN, DATED JUNE 1277

single-sheet document, c.360x330mm, vellum, 30 lines, two slits in the lower margin for a pendant seal, endorsed ‘Statutum sub sigillo episcopi et capituli Atrebatensis de Correctione statutum super inhabitacione(?) proprie domus in claustro et fructibus grossos lucrandi in festis sancti Petri ad vincula et Assumpsionis beate Marie’, and ‘Ordannances XXII’

Lots 45-48 from a private collection, United States. By this document I., Prior of Arras cathedral, and the whole chapter, record that they met in general chapter to amend the statutes (‘… ad tractandum de sancte ecclesie nostre negociis, corrigendum, ordinandun, statuendum, destituendum, et statuta moderandum …’) originally sealed by the reverend father lord P.  [i.e. Pierre de Noyon], bishop of Arras.