Royal MS 10 C I

CANON LAW TEXTS, including Anglican provincial constitutions, and a theological work, in Latin. The MS. does not appear to have been used for Wilkins' Concilia. Contents 1. Constitutions of the provincial Council of London, 1342, promulgated by John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury (Wilkins, ii. 702, cf. 8 B. XV, art. 6). Beg. 'Sponsam Christi saerosanctam'. Imperfect at end. f. 1.

2. 'Constitucio facta in concilio super habitu clericali puplicata London. anno dom. m ccc xliii [regis uero Edw. iii] a conquestu xvii' (sic): actually a repetition of a part of the preceding article. Beg. 'Exteriores habitus'. f. 2. Artt. 1, 2 are in a 14th cent. hand on fly-leaves; art. 3 is in an early 14th cent. hand.

3. A brief anonymous summa of popular theology, called in 8 D. IV, art, 4, 'Quinque Verba'. Without title. Beg. 'In nomine domini nostri Iesu, uolentes simplicium sacerdotum ignoranciis subuenire'; ends 'tollit peccatum. Amen'. f. 3. Art. 4 seems to be a later '4th cent. insertion.

4. 'Constituciones edite in concilio London. anno dom. m cccxrviii mense Ian. presidente dom. Simone de Mepham archiep. Cantuar. cum suis surfraganeis': the constitutions printed in Wilkins, ii, p. 552 . Beg. 'Zelari oportet pro domino'. In the margin are various readings in john Theyer's hand. f. 4. Arlt.,5-8 are in one hand, of the first half of the 14th cent.

5. 'Hoc est concilium celebratum London. in ecclesia beati Pauli a uenerabili patre Otone sancte Romane ecclesie cardinali [at]que apostolice sedis legato in Oct. s. Martini anno gracie mccxxxvii, assidentibus', &c. : the constitutions promulgated at the Council of London, 1237, by Odo or Otho, legate of Gregory IX (Wilkins, i, p. 649, and elsewhere). Marginal various readings in Theyer's hand, taken from 11 A. XIV. For other copies see 8 F. XIV, art. 23, 9 B. II, art. 1, and 11 B. V, art. 6. Beg. 'Quoniam decet domum domini'. f. 5.

6. 'Item adhuc de statutis prenominati dom. Otonis legati in Anglia super statu religiosorum et eorum regula': rules relating to monastic houses (not in Wilkins). Beg. 'In nomine patris, &c. Cum grande sit opus'; ends'minus intelligentibus exponatur'. f. 7b.

7. 'Octobonus miseracione diuina sancti Adriani diaconus cardinalis, ap. sedis legatus, ad perpetuam rei memoriam': constitutions promulgated at the Council of London, 1268, by Ottobono Fieschi (Pope Adrian V 1276) as legate of Clement IV (Wilkins, ii, p. 1, in a different order). Other copies in 9 B. II, art. 2 (another different order) and 11 A. XIV, art. 9. Beg. 'Mandata dei et lex altissimi'. One paragraph ('Cum honestatis ecclesiasticae') of Wilkins' text is wanting. f. 8.

8. 'Constituciones de Redinges per Iohannem archiep. Cantuar.'; promulgated by John Peckham at the Council of Reading, 1279 (Wilkins, ii, p. 33, in a different order). Another copy is in 9 B. II, art. 5. Beg. 'Quod in presenti constitucione'. f. 15.

Artt. 9, 10 are in another 14th cent. hand, 9. 'Incipit apparatus Io[hannis] An[dree] super Sexto: the commentary of Giovanni d'Andrea on the Sext or sixth book of the decretals (cf. 9 F. V, art. 3). f. 17.

10. 'Summa magistri Io. An. doctoris decretorum super quarto libro decretalium.' The abbreviation pro. bably stands for Johannis Andreae, notwithstanding that the true author was Johannes de Anguissola, Giovanni d'Andrea having fraudulently appropriated the work (see Schulte, Gesch. der Quellen des can. Rechts, ii, pp. 133, 214). The present article is the shorter forin, without Andrea's preface. Beg. 'Compilator supra satis tractaverat'. For editions see Schulte, l. c. f. 98. Art. 11 is in a 13th cent. band, with initials (two only inserted) in red and blue.

11. Summa super titulis decretalium, by Goffredus de Trano (cf. 10 A. X, art. 1). Incompletc, containing only lib. ip titt. i-xviii. At the head of the page is a title in French, 'La sume Gaunfrai'. Beg. 'Glosarum diuersitas intelligenciam textus non nunquam obtenebrat'. f. 100. On f. 1 is a form of proxy by Nicholas de Rosse, rector of Cold Newenton [Newington Bagpath, co. Giouc.], 14th cent. Vellum; ff. 130. 131/4 in. x 83/4 in. XIII (art. 11) and XIV centt. Gatherings, artt. 1, 2, i²; arntt. 3, 4, i²; artt. 5-8, i¹²; artt. 9, 10, ivi¹², vii¹¹; art. 11, i, ii¹², iii⁷. Double columns (exc. artt. 1, 2). Sec. fol. 'constitucio facta' or (f. 4) '-tenciariis'. Belonged to 'Iohannes Theyer de Coupers Hill iuxta Gloucestriam' (f. 3). Theyer salecat. no. 26; CMA. 6525.