Royal MS 10 C XI

WORKS of Martinus Polonus and Walter de Burley, in Latin, viz.:-

1. Analytical commentary [by Walter de Burley, d. circ. I3451 on Aristotle's Politics. Based on the Latin version of Guillelmus de Moerbeka. Imperfect, ending in the table of capitula at end of lib. iii. Without preface (other MSS. seem to have different prefaces, the initium of those mentioned by Coxe in his Catal. Oxf. Coll. differing from Burney MS. 304), and differs in text from the Burney MS. Preceded by a list of quaestiones, beg. 'Prima questio, quid est seruus'. Text beg. 'Subiectum libri Politicorum'; ends (imperf) with catchwords 'manifestum est quod'. f. 1.

2. 'Margarita Decretalium : an index to the Decre. tals, the work, or purporting to be the work, of the same frater Martinus (cf. art. 3) as the Margarita Decreti (cf 9 F. I). The preface is mutatis mutandis verbally identical with that of the other work, and the arrangement exactly similar. The tract seems to be unknown to Schulte (Gesch. der Quellen des can. Rechts, ii, p. 137) and never to have been printed, whereas the Margarita Decreti was edited frequently in the 15th cent. At f. 130 b follows the same concordance (here called 'breuiarium') of Decretum and Decretals as is appended in 9 F. I, and also a full table of rubrics. Preface beg. 'Inter alia que ad fidelium'; text, 'Aaron: quod Aaron sacerdocium approbatur'. f. 25.

3. 'Incipit Cronica fratris Martini penitenciarii domini pape et capellani': the chronicle of popes and (in parallel columns) of emperors from the Christian era by the same author (generally called Martinus Polonus), who at his death (1278) was Archbishop-elect of Gnesen. The text is of the C class of Weiland (in Monum. Germ, Hisi., Scriptores, xxii, cf. 6 B. XI, art. 12) and includes a continuation of the Pontifical annals, which here end with the clection of Honorius IV in 1284, and the words 'sollicite prosequenda'. The imperial chronicle ends 'veniens est defunctus'. The text seems therefore akin to the Hanover MS. (Weiland's no. 11). Beg. 'Quon. iam scire tempora summorum pontificum'. f. 133. Vellum; ff. 161. 133/4 in. x 9 in. XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (last 5), with catchwords. Double columns. Sec.fol.'-ris et femine'. Art. 2, has an illuminated border initial (f. 25) and other initials in red and blue; art. 3, flourished initials in red and blue. Probably cat. of 1666, f. 9 b; CMA. 8384.