Royal MS 9 B XII

EXCERPTS from the collection of canons (spurious and authentic) of the Pseudo-Isidore, al. Isidorus Mercaton This abridgement (for the full text see 11 D. IV) is found also in 11 D. VIII and Cotton MS. Claud. D. IX, and in a MS. in Lincoln Cathedral Library. It consists of two parts:-(a) Abridgement of the decretals in parts i, iii of the original;-(b) The series of councils. In the decretals the text closely resembles that of 11 D. IV and Cotton MS. Claud. E. V, but in the councils it differs from 11 D. IV (Claud. E. V does not contain them). For fuller particulars see the edition by Hinschius, Leipzig, 1863. Artt. 1-6 are later additions, not found in the other MSS. Contents.- 1. Decretal (Jaffé-Wattenbach, Regesta, no. 10590) of Alexander III to [Theobald] Archbishop of Canterbury on his consecration and the schism following on the death of Adrian IV, 5 Oct. [1159]. Beg. 'Eterna et incommutabilis'. f. 2.

2. Letter of the Emperor Frederic I to King Henry 11, concerning the same schism, n.d. [28 Oct. 1159]. Printed, Foedera (Record ed.), i, p. 19. f. 3.

3. Encyclical of twenty-five cardinals of Alexander's faction on the saine schism, n. d. Printed, Watterich, Vitae Romanorum Ponlificum, ii, p. 493. Beg. 'Merore simul et pudore'. f 3.

4. Creed of Constantinople in its authentic form (whereas the text of the collection, f. 171 b, and elsewhere, interpolates 'et filio'). f. 5.

5. Records of the first Council of Nicaea, viz.:-(a) 'Capitula Canonum ecclesiasticorum siue et statutorum synodi Nicenae';-(b) 'Item quae in Grecis non habentur sed in Latinis repperiuntur codicibus';-(c) 'Ex. positio fidei Nicenae vel synodicae disciplinae';-(d Nomina episcoporum': a different list from that in 11 D. IV;-(e) The Canons themselves. The version is throughout different from that contained below in the text. f. 6.

6. 'Epistola Leonis Papae ad Flavianum, vel thomus Leonis': the letter (Jaffé-Wattenbach, no. 423, Cf. 7 A. II, f. 56b, &c.) beg. 'Lectis dilectionis tuae', printed by Hinschius, op. cit. p. 597. In many copies of the work it occurs twice over, but it is not generally included in the abridgement. f. 14.

7. Selected letters, iiearly all more or less abridged, from the decretals of the first part of the original work from Clement I to Melciades, followed by the'Exemplar constituti domni Constantini imperatoris'. The first three letters of Clement and the constitution of Constantine are among those given in full. Four popes (Pontianus, Eutychianus, Gaius, and Marcellinus) are entirely omitted. f. 16. Art. 8 follows immediately on the last, without division.

8. Similar selections from pt.iii, Silvester-Gregory II. The extent of abridgement varies, considerable series of letters being given at full length. No decretals are included which do not occur in Claud. E. V and the order of those given is the same as there. The two MSS. also agree in giving the original ending to the letter (Hinschius, p. 611) of Leo to Anatolius, ' Manifestato f. 55 b. Art. 9, after some blank leaves, follows on a separate quire.

9. Capitula Ingilramni (Jaffé-Wattenbach, no. 2447, Hinschius p.757). To this are appended:-(a) 'Synodale decretum Nicholai III] papae', in the synod of Rome, 1059 (Mansi, Concilia, xix. 897-899);-(b) 'Lusiurandum quod in eadem synodo Beringerius fecit' (ib. 900). The capitula beg. 'Dei ordinationem'. f. 149.

10. Collection of Councils, from Nicaea i to Seville ii, given in full; preceded (f. 153) by the 'Canones qui dicuntur apostolorum' and the Nicene Creed. The text differs from ii D. iv, as well by insertions (e. g. Mizonius's letter and others prefixed to Carthage i and the last clause of Carthage v) as omissions, and it probably belongs to a different class. After the incomplete Toledo iii a blank space is left, the text ending as in 11 D. VIII and Hinschius with an imperfect sentence, which Claud. D. IX omits altogether. f. 155. Vellum; ff. 272. 131/4 in. x 83/4 in. Early XII cent. Finely written probably at Worcester (see pl. 64 b). Sec. fol. 'Fridericus' or, (f. 7) 'Filippus'. Initials in colours. Edges much injured by water and fire. Belonged to Worcester Cathedral Priory, 'Liber monasterii Wygornie'(f. 2). Cat. of 1666, f. 7 ?; CMA. 8138 or 8139?.