Royal MS 10 A XV

TWO TRACTS in Latin, on the disputes between the Franciscans and the papacy and between the Emperor Ludwig IV and the papacy, viz.:-

1. 'Incipit doctor Okkam fratris minoris (sic) in suo defensorio'(so title in the hand of Thomas Gascoigne, see below), but a later hand corrects 'Defensor Pacis': the Defensor Pacis of Marsilius of Padua (Rector of Paris University in 1313), written in 1324. Printed, Basel, 1522, and in Goldast's Monarchia S. Romani Imperii (1614), ii, p. 154, &c. Beg. 'Omni quippe regno desiderabilis'. At the end is a paragraph, beg. 'Vocabitur autem tractatus iste Defensor Pacis' and ending 'fidelium Christianorum', which is not in the printed text. f. 3.

2. 'Contra Michaelem de Cesena': a short extract from the bull 'Quia vir reprobus' of John XXII (dated Avignon, 16 Nov. 1329, and noted as received by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 29 Mar. 1330) against the Franciscan General, Michael de Cesena. Beg. 'Dominus Iohannes 22'. Colophon, 'Corpus scriptoris saluet deus omnibus horis'. f. 94.

3. 'Hockam in defensorio' (the title in Gascoigne's hand on f. 1 b and as above in art. i really applies to this piece) : a tract against the temporal pretensions of the papacy by the Oxford and Paris nominalist and Franciscan William of Ockhain (styled Doctor invincibilis). In twenty-seven chapters, but incompletc. Apparently not the same as any of the printed works on the subject. At the end of the preface is a reference to fuller treatment of the subject 'in quodam dialogo quem dudum incepi', i. e. in the work printed in Goldast, op. cit. p. 740. Preface beg. 'Universis Christi fidelibus . . . Willielmus de Okkam . . . Quoniam, ut Christi veridica testantur eloquia'; text, 'Si reges et principes ecciesiarumque prelatos'. f. 95. In the binding is a fragment (f. 1) of a 13th cent. MS. of the 'Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comesior (Migne, Patr. Lat. cxcviii. 1371 C, 1372 B) on 3 Kings. On f. 2, is a list of books in the library of the Austin Friars at Oxford in 1430; on f. 101 b a note in Gascoigne's hand of two statutes made by the University of Oxford in 1438, 'existentibus stantibus magistris Thoma Gascoigne Roberto Twathys Willielmo Dowsun et Willielmo Tybard', relating to the graduation of 'religiosi possessionati' and the abolition of provision, and to proccedings in canon law for priests. The table of contents (f. 2 b) and some notes (ff. 93 b, 95) are in the hand of Patrick Young. Vellum; ff. 101. 91/2 in. x 7 in. XV cent. Gatherings, i-v¹², vi, vii¹⁰, viii, ix¹², with catchwords. Sec. fol. '-terminatis habencia'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged to Thomas Gascoigne, Chancellor of Oxford University (1434, &c., d. 1458), who gave it to Lincoln College (f. 2 b). Old Royal press-mark'no. 1074'; cat. of 1666, f. 47; CMA. 8215, 8216.