Royal MS 10 A II

DECRETALS of Alexander III with later additions (see a fuller description by Karl Hampe in Neues Archiv der Gesellschafifar dltere deutsche Geschichiskunde, xxii, p. 394), viz.:-

1. 'Decretales epistole Alexandri pape tercii,: a systematic collection of the type of the Appendix Lateranensis Concilii comprising, in seven parts, about 250 decretals, all of Alexander III. About one in six of the decretals appear to be wanting in the other compilations and Regesta, though a careful search might disclose some of these under different initia. Some of the letters (e.g. pt. iii, d. 30, Jaffé-Wattenbach, Regesta, no. 14348) are later in date than the Lateran Council of 1179, but the decrees of the Council itself are not incorporated. The tituli are as follows:-(i) 'De statu ctiure coniugii', &c., about 46 letters;-(ii) 'De statu religiosorum', &c., about 36 letters;-(iii) 'De statu clericorum' about 40 letters;-(iv) 'De statu et iure ecclesiarum', about 49 letters;-(v) 'De casibus in quibus non est deferendum appellacionibus', about 13 letters;-(vi) De casibus in quibus est deferendum', &c., four letters, (vii) 'Ad informandos iudices', about 47 letters. The exact numbers are doubtful as the rubricator marks some with 'uacat' for omission. Similar collections are in Arundel MS. 490, Cotton MS. Vit. E. XIII, and below, 10 B. IV, art. 5, 15 B. IV, art. 17 (cf. also Mansi, Concilia, xxii. 274; Schulte, Geseh. der Quellen des can. Rechis, i, p. 76). f. 5.

2. Additions, in hands nearly contemporary or of the beginning of the 13th cent., are :-(a) Anonymous decretal concerning tithes, apparently addressed to a prelate in Hungary, added at the end of part ii of the above compilation. Beg. 'Intelleximus ex litteristuis'. f. 21 b; -(b) Five letters of Lucius III (1181-1185), of which three are printed by Dr. Baumgarten in Engl. Hisiotical Review, 1894, ix, p. 534, and the other two are nos. 15165, 15168 of Jaffé-Wattenbach, the latter incomplete. ff. 62 b, 63 b;-(c) Five letters of Urban III (1185-1187), viz:-

no. 15518 and four others printed by Baumgarten, loc. cit. ff. 1-3;-(d) Letterof Clement III announcing his election (1187) addressed to the English prelates, printed, l. c., p. 540. Beg. ' Illud operata est'. f. 62b. On f. 65 b is an epigram, 'De papa Urbano et Octauiano et Albino quando cardinales facti sunt, cum ueniret nisug unus in ecclesia auem capiens, dixit unus Nonne sub inuolucro prede Ietissima lucro Signa dedit uolucris fratres intendere lucris The creation of cardinals Octavianus and Albinus was in 1182. Urban III, created cardinal in 1171, became pope in 1185. Vellum; ff. 65. 91/4 in. x 53/4 in. End of XII or beg. of XIII cent. Written in England. Gatherings of 8 leaves (iii⁶), with catchwords. Sec. fol. in text 'non impedit'.- Initials in red and blue. Probably from the Theyer collection. Theyer sale-cat no. 182 ?; CMA. 6500?.