Royal MS 9 C I

DECRETALS and comnientaries, including some of the compilations intermediate between Gregory IX and Boniface VIII, viz.:-

1. Decretals of Gregory IX (the great compilation of Raymundus de Pennaforti, 1234), with which are incorporated, under their proper tituli, the new constitutions of Innocent IV. Marginal gloss (the 'glossa ordinaria') by Bernardo Bottoni of Parma, canon of Bologna (d. 1263). Beg. 'In huius libri principio'. Printed repeatedly (1472, &c., see Schulte, Gesch. der Quellen des can. Rechts, ii, p. 114). The Innocentine decretals have no gloss. The preface to the decretals is addressed to Paris University. Colophon, 'Expliciunt Decretales Will. Bannasencis'. Table of tituli on f. 2.

2. Three decretals of Innocent IV, not given in their proper places, but added at the end of art. i. They are:-(a) 'Non solum in fauorem conuersi', part of which appears in Liber Sextus, wrongly attributed to Alexander IV (see Friedberg's Corpus, ii. 1051, note, and Mansi, Concilia, xxiii. 565). f. 192b;-(b) 'Romana ecclesia, et infra, Statuimus'; in Liber Sextus, lib. iii, tit. xx, cap. i. f. 193;-(c) 'Dilecto filio, et infra, Praesertim [al. Praeterea] cum omnes'; ib. lib. v, tit. xi, cap. 6. This last is incomplete. f. 193 b.

3. 'Apparatus nouarum constitucionum Innocentii quarti': the commentary [by Bernardus Compostellanus the younger, see Schulte, ii, p. 119] on the constitutions of Innocent, a separate text of which is in 9 F. II, art. 2, 11 B. V, art. 4. For another copy of the com. mentary, incorporated with the 'glossa ordinaria' (see art. i), see io D. vii. Beg. 'Cum in multis et infra. Infinitas. Nota quod infinitas in multis'. f. 196.

4. 'Noue constituciones Gregorii pape decimi edite in concilio Lugtiunensi'(so colophon): constitutions at the Council of Lyons, 1274 (Mansi, xxiv. 81), with 'glosse ordinarie a domino Garcia iuris ciuilis et canonici professore composite anno dom. m.cc.lxxxii'. Other copies of this commentary, by Johannes Garsias Hispanus (see Schulte, ii, p. 160), are in 10 D. VII, art. 2, and Arundel MS. 470, f. 195. Text beg. 'Gregorius . . . uniuersitati magistrorum et scolarium Bononie ... Cum nuper in generali'; commentary, 'In nomine domini. amen. quoniam natura rerum introducta est'. f. 201 b. On the fly-leaves, among many notes, mnemonic verses, &c., is a copy of the ordinance [14 Edw. I] 'Circumspecte agatis' (cf. 9 A. II, art. 14). Vellum; ff. 211. 161/4 in. x 10 in. Beg. of XIV cent. Sec. fol. '-lucionem Bernardi' or 'confirmati in unum'. Initials flourished in red and blue. On f. 3 is the ownership note of some monastery, 'Decretales ex adquisicione fratris Roberti Deynchesworth'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 275' (Westm. invent. of 154%, Add. MS. 25469, f. 28); cat. of 1666, f. 9; CHA. 8390.