Royal MS 10 C II

DECRETALS and treatises of canon law, in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Liber Sextus decretalium domini Bonefacii pape viii': the Sext (cf. 9 E. II), without gloss. The preface is addressed to Oxford. A table of tituli has been inserted at the beginning (f. iii b). The colophon gives the date of publication, viz. 'Dat. Romev. N[on.] Martii pontif. Bon. viii. anno iiii. [1298]'. Beg. 'Bonifacius episcopus ... Sacrosancte Romane ecclesie'. f. 1.

2. Tract on the forms of clection of bishops. Colophon, 'Perfecta fuit ista summula a mag. Laurencio de Summercote dom. pape subdiacono canonico Cicestrensi mense Iunii anno dom. mocco. quinquagesimo quarto. deo gracias' (cf. 8 C. XVI, art. 1). The preface and the first half of the author's marginal annotations are wanting. Beg. 'Defuncto igitur episcopo'. The text is in red ind the formulae in black ink, following the directions of the author in the preface. f. 89. On blank leaves are inserted:-(a) Commonplaces (14th cent.) about medicines from Isaac, Galen (two), and Platearius (two). f. 88 b;-(b) Form of appeal (relating to a disputed advowson) to the court of Canterbury by a parson in possession of his benefice. In the same hand are added below a medical recipe and the date [1316] computed from the accession (1294) and jubilee (1300) of Pope Boniface. f. 97 b;-(c) Note (or extract of a constitution?) on the canon law 'de consensu matrimoniali inter uirum et mulierem in contrahendo ad inuicem matrimonium quando dicitur de presenti et quando de futuro'. The corresponding passage in the Corpus is Decretals iv, tit. i, capp. 30-32. Beg. 'Multociens contingit quod ribaldus'. f. 98;-(d) On the fly-leaves are theological notes in a 14th cent. hand, a few of which are in French. ff. i. b, ii. b.

Vellum; ff. iii + 98. 131/2 in. x 83/4 in. Beg. of XIV cent. Gatherings, i, ii¹², iii¹⁰, iv-vii¹², viii⁶, ix¹⁰. Double columns, in a large English hand. Sec. fol. 'constitucionem condendo'. Initials in red. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 792,' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 21); cat, of 1666, f. 9; CMA. 8368.