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.