Royal MS 10 D X

'SVMMA SVMMARVM': an anonymous repertorium of canon law, evidently of English origin, together with two later tracts on Lollardism, viz.:-

1. 'Incipit speculum iuris canonici ac repertorium, et uocatur summa summarum'; in five books, correspond. ing to those of the decretals (but the tituli are its own), forming, as the preface states, a guide not only to the Decretum, Decretals, Sext, and Clementines, to the glossators and to the summae of Innocent, Raymundus, Gaufridus, and others, but also to English provincial law in the constitutions of Otho and Ottobonus, the synods of Oxford, Reading, and Lambeth, and of Arch. bishops Boniface and Peckham, and the statuta of the Court of Arches. The author refuses to divulge his name, and though the work is probably the Summa Summarum (incipit Ad honorem) which Boston of Bury (see Bale, Index Brit. Script. p. 143) is said to have ascribed to William de Pagula, that ascdption is very doubtful. A comparison of the preface with that of the work entitled Manipulus Florum (cf. 7 C. III) makes it clear that the authors of the two works were cither identical or one borrowed extensively from the other, and the Manipulus is ascribed either to Thomas of Palmerstown alone or to John le Walleys and Thomas of Palmerstown. Another copy of the Summa is at Oxford, Exeter Coll. xix. Preface beg. 'Ad honorem et laudem nominis . . . incipit speculum compendii'; 'Quot modis dicitur fides'. Lib. v ends 'dispulib. ip tandum et eciam respondendum. Explicit summa summarum' 2. 'Nota contra opinionem lollardorum qui dicunt ymagines in eeclesia non adorandos (sic)' (marginal title in a later hand): the work of Nicholas Radcliff (cf. 6 D. X, art. 3 b). Beg. 'Vtrum sit licitum Christiano imagines'. f. 308 b.

3. 'Conclusiones Iohannis (sic) Brut, lollardi, de com, Herefordie dampnate coram domino episcopo Hereford [blank space] Treuenaunt [John Trevenant, Bishop 1389-1404] vi. die mensis Oct. a.d. mcccxciii apud Here. ford': thirty-seven propositions condemned as cither heretical or erroneous. From the date and number they are doubtless those mentioned by Foxe (Acts and

Monuments, ed. 1583, i, p. 501) in his 'story of Walter Brute'. as having been sent to Cambridge to be confuted. John therefore is either a mistake for Walter or else Foxe has blundered, perhaps confusing the Lollard with Walter Brit, the mathematician, of Merton College, Oxford, for whom see Dict. Nat. Biogr. Beg. 'Gentes conuerse ab infidelitate'. f. 312. Vellum; ff. i + 312. 173/4 in. x 12 in. Late XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (i², xix, xx⁸, xxviii⁶), with catchwords. Double columns. Written in England. Sec. fol. 'trinitatis'. With coarsely illuminated borders (ff. 1, 3) and initials of books; other initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged to Reading Abbey, 'Liber monachorum claustralium de Redyng' (f. 1). Cat. of 1666, f. 10; CMA. 8437.