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MISCELLANEOUS tracts, etc., chiefly theological, containing 1. A list of professors and deputy-professors appointed by royal decree to the University of Coimbra, 11 Sept. 1772. Portuguese. f. i.

2. Proceedings of an " Acto pxiblico da Fé " against Maria do Rozario, whose Dame in the world was Maria Thareza Ignacia, nun of the Monastery of the Sacrament, for witchcraft and diabolical practices, containing her confession ; Lisbon, 20 Oct. 1748. Portuguese. f. 4.

3. Part of a theological commonplace-book, in 92 numbered sections, beginning with the latter part of S 33. SS 33-72 contain notes, chiefly historical, on the festivals of the Church. The remainder are occupied with miscellaneous theological matters; among other items occur a list of anagrams (e.g. " Anagrama de Job He Boy pella Paciencia.") and a biographical list of Popes from Linus to the accession of Innocent XIII. (1721), about which time the book seems to have been written. Portuguese. f. 8.

4. Fragment of a theological treatise, divided into lectiones, on the lawfulness of seeking honours, on justice, and (lect. 53) , de hiis emolumentis et obuencionibus quas sacerdotes habere consweuerunt de morituris et mortuis," which leads to a discussion of the right use of wealth. Latin. The fragment begins with the concluding portion of lect. 46 and ends in the middle of lect. 57. Some leaves are lost in the middle, so that only the beginning of lect. 51 and the last six lines of lect. 52 remain. In a 15th cent. hand of German type. In lect. 56 (f. 70 b) there is a quotation from "quidam doctor sollempnis, viz. dominus Richardus [Fitzralph, d. 1360], Armicanus Archiepiscopus, primas Hybernie, iam vt fertur meritis sancte vite canonizatus." A commission of enquiry concerning his canonization is said to have been issued circ. 1400- 1404, but to have led to no result. f. 57.

5. Fragment of a theological treatise in a German hand of the 15th cent. Latin. Only three folios remain, which are not continuous. The subject of the first two is evangelical poverty and the " status perfectionis," perhaps with reference to the friars. The third, which contains the end of the treatise, is on the question " Vtrum iudex eodem iudicio debeat ab eterno iudice iudicari quo ipse iudicat." f. 7 4. Paper; ff. 76. XV.-XXIII. centt. Folio. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.