Middle English Dictionary Entry
transcript n.
Entry Info
| Forms | transcript n. Also transcripte, transcrit(e, (early) traunscrit. |
| Etymology | OF transcrit, transcript(e, AF traunscript & ML transcriptum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Chiefly law A copy of a document, transcript; also [quot. 1472-5], ?an escheat; ?a written promise to pay.
Associated quotations
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)551,553 : 'Ich am ȝet a ȝong man And luyte ȝwule habbe bischop i-beo..Þare-fore of ower olde lawes, transcrit ȝe me take'..þe king him let a traunscrit take of þis customes echon.
- c1450 Gt.Chron.(Gldh 3313)128 : In witnesse wherof to this present lettres of vidimus or of transcript we have sette the seall of the Bailliage of Amyas yeven at Amyas..the yere of oure lord Ml. ccccxxiijti.
- (1454) RParl.5.248a : Wee wole and ordeyne that a transcrite of this same Act in all godely hast be sent..unto our seid Tresorer and unto our seid Barons.
- (1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57402 : Item, for a transcripte of the offyce of Gorge, ij s.
- (1472-5) RParl.6.159b : He or they in that partie defectyve forfeit to You, Sovereigne Lord, for every defaute, an c Marcs, by transcript therof to be delyvered into the said Eschequer.
- (1483) RParl.6.260b : The said Endentures, wherof the transcripts to this Bill ben annexed.
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)100/8 : We wole þat þe forseyde Inuentaries or registris been redde opunli..and after tyme þat þey been redde, one register dwelle wiþ þe Abbesse, & þat oþer wiþ þe Couent, & þe transcrite wiþ þe Ministre general.