Quadripartitus

*Quadripartitus*
Quadripartitus
Language	medieval Latin
Manuscript(s)	Six manuscript classes:
	1. BL, Cotton MS Domitian viii, fos. 96r-110v; 2. Manchester, John Rylands Library Latin MS 420; 3. BL, Royal MS 11.B.ii, fos. 103r-166v; 4. BL, Add MS 49366 ; 5. BL, Cotton MS Titus A.xxvii, fos. 89r-174v; 6. London Collection:; 6a. Manchester, John Rylands Library, Latin MS 155 (+ BL, Add MS 14252); 6b. BL, Cotton MS Claudius D.ii; 6c. Cambridge, CCC, MSS 70 and 258; 6d. Oxford, Oriel College, MS 46.
Genre	legal compilation

The title Quadripartitus refers to an extensive legal collection compiled during the reign of Henry I, king of England (1100–1135).^[2] The work consists of Anglo-Saxon legal materials in Latin translation as well as a number of Latin texts of legal interest that were produced after the Conquest. It ranks as the largest surviving medieval collection of pre-Conquest law and is the second to have been produced during Henry I's reign, after that contained in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 383.^[2] First compiled for the use of Henry I's jurists and administrators, the Quadripartitus enjoyed immense interest for a considerable time afterwards and was consulted by legal scholars, including Henry de Bracton in the thirteenth century and John Fortescue in the fifteenth.

^ Wormald, Making of English law, pp. 237-8
^ ^a ^b Wormald, Making of English law, p. 236

[1] Wormald, Making of English law, pp. 237-8

[autogenerated3-2] Wormald, Making of English law, p. 236

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