f [14v]
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| Dominica | ...quidam mimus ... ad cenam cum socijs |
...
f [16v]
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| Dominica | Duo mimi/ ffamulus eiusdem/ ad prandium cum socijs... |
...
f [20v]
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| Dominica | Tres mimi ad prandium cum socijs... |
...
f [35v]
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| Sabbati | Duo mimi ad prandium cum socijs... |
...
f [44v]
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| Dominica | ...Duo mimi ad prandium cum socijs... |
...
f [45v]
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| Veneris | v mimi ad prandium cum socijs |
f [46v]
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| Iouis | ...quidam mimus ad cenam cum famulis.... |
...
f [48v]
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| Dominica | ...iij mimi ... ad prandium cum socijs... |
...
f [5v] (29 September–29 September)
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| Wednesday | ...a certain performer at dinner with the fellows... |
...
f [14v]
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| Sunday | ...a certain performer ... at supper with the fellows |
...
f [16v]
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| Sunday | Two performers, a servant of the same at dinner with the fellows... |
...
f [20v]
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| Sunday | Three performers at dinner with the fellows... |
...
f [35v]
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| Saturday | Two performers at dinner with the fellows... |
...
f [44v]
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| Sunday | ...Two performers at dinner with the fellows... |
...
f [45v]
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| Friday | Five performers at dinner with the fellows |
f [46v]
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| Thursday | ...a certain performer at supper with the servants.... |
...
f [47v]
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| Monday | ...William Hore, another performer with him ... at dinner with the fellows |
...
f [48v]
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| Sunday | ...three performers ... at dinner with the fellows... |
...
The fourth week is incorrectly labelled fifth on f [43v]; the fifth is mistakenly labelled sixth, and the sixth, seventh. The seventh week is also – correctly – labelled seventh, and the following two weeks are not numbered, no doubt out of confusion, with the numbering finally getting it right with the tenth week through the thirteenth.
Record title: Winchester College Hall Book
Repository: Winchester College Archives
Shelfmark: 22845
Repository location: Winchester
The hall books were rough accounts in paper booklets kept by the hall steward (this job was rotated weekly between the junior fellows), listing by name in two columns all those eating in hall each day. The totals were entered later in the bursars' accounts, 'Commons' section. The visitors eating in hall were entered at the end of each week, generally across both columns, under the heading of 'Jurnelli,' that is, guests. The listings start on the left with the day of the week followed by a list of guests, usually without commas or virgules, and then a formulaic entry such as 'ad prandium/cenam cum socijs' or 'cum famulis.' Sometimes the visitors were listed as eating at the top table with the warden, sometimes with the junior fellows ('socijs'), and sometimes with the servants ('famulis'). This pecking order gives us some idea of the status accorded to the various sorts of visitors.
There are datings of regnal years on the covers,
sometimes the year the book was started and sometimes when it ended.
Sometimes there are two entries in different hands; the lengthier one in
Latin appears to be contemporary and the other brief one is in a later
hand. Each week starts with a Saturday and is not dated, but designated
by a heading such as '2nd week, 2nd quarter' and then by the days in
Latin. These have been given specific dates with reference to H. Chitty,
bursar from the 1910s to 30s, who went to considerable lengths to verify
the dates and also to establish dates where no cover has survived,
through reference to the corresponding account rolls where they exist or
else to lists of scholars/fellows and their dates of admission. The
accounting period is usually Michaelmas to Michaelmas and the new year
begins with the Saturday following Michaelmas (with one or two
exceptions). The quarters are divided into thirteen weeks each, although
the fourth quarter sometimes contains a fourteenth week to make the
first quarter of the next year start on the Saturday after
Michaelmas.
1480–1; Latin; paper; i + 52 + i leaves in 4 quires; 300mm x 110mm; unnumbered; bound in parchment, on cover: 'Liber Commensalium Anno regni regis E iiijti xxo' and '20 Ed IV 1480.'