Royal MS 9 E XIV

TRACTS on theology and canon law, in Latin, viz.

1. 'Summa magistri Roberti de Curcun de moralibus questionibus theologicis': the Summa of Robert de Courçon (or Curson), Cardinal, Legate at Paris in 1215, possibly an Englishman by birth (see Oudin, De Sctiptt. Eccl. ii. 1715). Beg. 'Tota celestis philosophia'. f. 5.

2. Three sets of theological quaestiones, to some (series a, b, or b only ?) of which the table of contents at f. 198 gives the name 'Questiones Abendon (?)'. A list of subjects (f. 75) and a common foliation to all three (including sixteen leaves, now lost, between a and b) have been inserted in a slightly later hand. The initia of the three sets are:-(a) 'Quesitum est de confessiont sic'. These are in a minute, much contracted hand. f. 75;-(b) 'Queriter de passibilitate anime Christi'. Probably, however, the lost pages may also have belonged to this set, which ends (f. 110 b) 'ergo non est idem'; six leaves following being a repetition of ff. 83 sqq., due to the scribe's mistake. f. 83;-(c) 'Rom. i, Cum gentes qui legem non habent, &c. : Ex hoc patet quod lex'. This series, the subjects of which are Lex, Praecepta, Latria, and Iuramentum, is entitled (f. 123) 'Questiones fratris Symonis de Hentune'. Incomplete at the end. Simon de Henton is said by Pits to have flourished circ. 1360 and to have been Provincial of the Dominicans in England, but the date must evidently be a mistake. This work, evidently known to Pits from the present MS., has been generally supposed to be lost. f. 117 b.

3.Treatise described in the contents (f. 198) as 'Summa que incipit Inuisibilia dei; tantum est una pecia': a fragment containing (without preface) capp' I-I5 of lib. i of the Sententiae of Petrus Pictaviensis (Pierre de Poitiers, Chancellor of Paris 1193-1204 ?, d. 1205), printed in Migne, Patr. Lat ccxi. 791-851. Beg. 'Inuisibilia dei a creatura, &c., Rom. i. 20: Creatura mundi homo dicitur'; breaks off Iverbo nouit superius'. See other copies, 10 A. XIV and 11 B. IV. f. 134.

4. Brief tract on the attributes of God. Beg. 'Nominum que dicuntur de deo alia sunt essentialia'. f. 142.

5. 'Questio de generatione et corruptione': a theological quaestio beg. 'Questio est de generatione patris'. f. 142 b.

6. 'Summa magistri Prepositini de theologicis questionibus': the treatise of Praepositinus (or Praepositivus ?) of Cremona, Chancellor of Notre Dame circ. 1206- 1209. Prefacebeg. 'Qui producit uentos, &c. :Dominus ille magnus'; text, 'De uocabulis igitur que de deo'. A copy at Oxford (Univ. Coll. lxi) is described by Coxe as 'super libros duos priores sententiarum', but the treatise as here found is not only more comprehensive, but also deviates from the order of the Lombard's Sentences. Ends 'uiuos et mortuos et seculum per ignem. Amen'. f. 143.

7. Summa super decretalibus by Bernardus Papiensis (Bernardo Balbi, Bishop of Faenza 1192, of Pavia 1198- 1213): a companion work to his compilation of decretals (cf. 9 B. XI). In five books, but here incomplete, ending with the beginning of lib. iv. Prologue beg. 'Gloria patris filius est sapiens'; lib. i, 'Auxiliante domino de constitucionibus'. f. 191. The fly-leaves (ff. 1-4) are fragments of a 14th cent. antiphonary containing offices' for SS. Peter and Paul, ff. 3, 4 only having the inusic inserted, on a red four-line stave. F. 3 seems to have served as cover,to another MS., of which the titre 'Speculum Gregorii exceptum'and press-mark h. viii, or in large letters viii, are inscribed on it.. The table of contents of the MS. itself (f. 198) also appears

to contain some catalogue-reference for each article, viz'. 'K. vi. Summa mag.. [R] de Curcun. k. i. Questiones Abendon. k. vi. Summa que incipit Inuisibilia dei tantum est una pecia. i. viii. Summa Prepositini. Summa quedam de casibus in vno quatemo'. Vellum; ff. 198. 123/4 in. x 9 in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings (beg. art. 1), i-iii¹², iv⁸, v¹⁰, vi¹², vii⁴, viii-xiv⁸, xv³, xvi⁸, xvii¹⁰, xviii⁸, xix¹¹, xx, xxi⁸, xxii^4, xxiii⁸. Sec. fol. 'plurimum acusando'. Red initials. Cat. of 1666, f. 2; CMA. 8160, 8161.

includes:

• ff. 75, 83 Abendon: Quaestiones theologicae: late 13th cent.