Royal MS 10 D IV

'SVMMA de titulis decretalium a pilata (sic, for compilata) additis in aliquibus locis quibusdam r[ubr]icas (sic, for rubricellis) que uocatur sufnma Copi[o]sa sum ca[rita]- tis': the Summa super titulis. decretalium of Henricus de Bartholomaeis de Segusia, Cardinal-bishop of Ostia and Velletri (1216-1271, hence called Hostiensis). Printed repeatedly (Rome, 1473, Venice, 1480, 1490, &c.). Beg. 'Alpha et 0 unum in essencia'. Colophon, 'Monstrans obscuras iuris dissoluere quas (curas?) Excitat antiquas hec noua summa tricas. / Pro summe summo sit regi gloria summo'. At the end (f. 360 b) is an additional quaestio, as in 10 E. VIII which beg. 'Quid si episcopus precipit clerico suo quojuadat Romam'.

Vellum; ff. 361. 171/2 in. x 111/4 in. XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (xxx¹⁰, xxxi⁷), with catchwords. Double columns. Written and (poorly) illuminated in England. The colophon of lib. ii (f. 153b), Expl. liber secundus Copiose Iohannis', is possibly meant to give the scribe's name as John. Sec. fol. 'quod per- Mixtum'. Illuminated initials and borders on the firsi page of each book, the first containing a miniature of a lecturer and hearers ; other initials flourished in red and blue. The trees of consanguinity, &c., have been outlined in pencil (ff. 247, 248), but not painted. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 825' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 35); cat. of 1606, f. 10 or 11 b ; CMA. 8398 or 8436.