Laudator Temporis Acti

The Manuale Scholarium: An Original Account of Life in the Mediaeval University. Translated from the Latin by Robert Francis Seybolt (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1921), pp. 21-22, n. 6 (translator's note):

Leipzig, 1495 (Die Statutenbücher der Universität, ed. by Friedrich Zarncke, p. 102): "STATUTE FORBIDDING ANY ONE TO ANNOY OR UNDULY INJURE THE BEANI. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with dust or any filth, mock by whistling, cry at them with a terrifying voice, or dare to molest in any way whatsoever physically or severely, in the market, streets, courts, colleges and living houses, or any place whatsoever, and particularly in the present college, when they have entered in order to matriculate or are leaving after matriculation, any, who are called beani, who come to this town and to this fostering university for the purpose of study. Under the penalty of five groschen," etc.

The Latin, from Zarncke:

MANDATUM DE BEANIS NON VEXANDIS VEL INIURIOSE OFFENDENDIS.

Mandat omnibus et singulis universitatis eiusdem suppositis, quatenus nullum ipsorum deinceps aliquem ex hiis, qui sese in praesens oppidum et hanc almam academiam studii causa contulerunt, quos nonnulli beanos suo nomine compellitant, in foro, plateis, vicis, collegiis, bursis aliisve quibuslibet locis et signanter in praesenti collegio, quando ad ipsum immatriculationis causa ingredientur vel post immatriculationem egredientur, verbis iniuriosis offendat, verberet, capillet, aqua seu urina perfundat, pulveribus atque aliis immundiciebus proiiciat vel defoedet, fistulando subsannet, horrendis vocibus acclamitet, vel modis quibuscunque corporaliter atque enormiter molestare praesumat. Sub poena .v. grossorum, universitati irremissibiliter etc.