Royal MS 9 A VI

TREATISE and notes on procedure under the canon law, compiled early in the 15th cent., in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Prothodosinus in ordine iudiciario; alio nomine vocatus Petrus de Urbe' (so colophon). The title and authorship of this treatise have been given in a great variety of forms, see e. g. Tanner (Bibl. Brii.-Hib.), who imagines a connexion with Hereford. The names in the forms of citation, however, make it clear that the work was written at Erfurt (in Thüringen), dioc. Mainz, about 1412, and the authority of the foreign MSS. and early editions is decisive for the name Johannes Urbach as the writer. On the other hand Tanner is perhaps right in extracting 'Prothodos in ius' as the title from the various corruptions 'Prothodosinus', 'Prothodoxinus', 'Prothodon in ius' in the name; cf. however 9 C. VIII, before, where 'Prothodosinus' de Comitibus is a corruption of Prosdocimus. See the edition by J. G. T. Muther (Ioannis Urbach Processus Iudicii, Halis, 1873), and add to his list of MSS., besides the present MS., 11 A. XV and two at Cambridge, Viz. Trin. Coll. B. 16. 32 and Corpus Christi Coll. cli. Beg. 'Rex pacificus cunctorum causa effectiua'. f. 2.

2. 'Obseruacio terminorum in causa principali ad instanciam partis'. Beg. 'In primis flat citacio personalis'. Colophon, 'Expliciunt termini iudiciales'; followed by the common quatrain 'Sunt decretales bis mille sed adde nouem bis'. f. 106 b. On f. 119 a note on the plea in forma pauperis. Vellum; ff. i + 109. 6 in. x 44 in. XV cent. Gatherings of leaves, with catchwords. Sec. fol. '-tis scilicet'. Initials flourished in red and blue. An illuminated initial and border on f. 1. Slightly damaged in the fire of 1731. The name Will. Godfry is on f. 106. Theyer sale-cat. no. 269; CMA. 6642.