Royal MS 10 C X

'TRACTATVS IURIS Ciuilis et Canonici ad moralem materiam applicati secundum ordinem alphabeti, fratris Iohannis de Bromyard de ordine fratrum predicatorum'. This work, other copies of which are at Oxford (New Coll. no. ccxxiii), Cambridge (Pembroke Coll. no. 86 in M. R. James' Catalogue), and elsewhere, and a fragment in Add. MS. 34652, f. 27, is another recension, with many verbal differences, of the book printed [Fust and Schöffer, 1475?] as Opus Trivium under the name of Philippus de Bronnerde, reprinted, as Bromyard's, Paris, 1500. A John Bromyard was Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1383 and present at the convocation which condemned Wycliffe in 1382. Under Papa occur some rather outspoken reflections on the extravagance and corruption of the Roman court. Preceded by a 'tabula' or index rerum, beginning 'Ab infancia pueri'. Preface beg. 'Quod in sequenti tra. ctatu iura'; text, 'Abhas non potest in duobus'. Vellum; ff. 146. 131/2 in. x 9 in. Late XIV cent. Gatherings of iz leaves (i⁸, last 6). Sec. fol. in text 'qui reddit'. Illuminated border-initial (f. 9), other initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged to [Henry Fitzalan, Earl of] Arundel and [John. Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 403; cat. of 1666, f. 9; omitted in' CMA.