‘Different Forms of Gowns for All Sorts of Scholars in their Several Ranks’: Academic Undress at Oxford in 1635

This is a study of one-page manuscript in the Oxford University Archives with title ‘Different Forms Gowns for All Sorts Scholars their Several Ranks’, dated June 1635. It was clearly written connection Laudian Code statutes, which drafted 1634 and adopted 1636. The included regulations on university dress its use at that would remain force 134 years. document gives concise specification gowns time when other records providing such detail are lacking pictorial evidence sparse. article places Forms’ context provides transcription. then explains various ranks requirements facings ornament. A section devoted to four problematic terms articles dress. commentary discusses significant points document, comparing period leading up table summarizing provisions Forms’, text second (at Magdalen College) glossary materials be used trimming given appendices.