ABSTRACT
The existence of an unpublished assize issued by King James I of Lusignan was pointed out in 1925 by G. Recoura, who found it in a manuscript of the Livre des assises de la Haute Cour in the collection of the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 1 This manuscript, which had belonged to Francesco Attar, was written in the sixteenth century; 2 it begins with the table of contents of the Livre de Jean d’Ibelin, and it is after this table that the text of this assize can be found. It is dated 1 January 1395 — which, due to the custom in Cyprus of beginning the year on 1 March, brings us to 1 January 1396. 3
