Royal MS 10 E II

GRATIAN'S DECRETUM With the marginal apparatus of Bartholomaeus Brixtensis (cf 9 C. III, 10 D. VIII). The paleae in the text are very numerous, including 148 out of the total number of 166 enumerated by Friedberg (Corpus, i, p. xiv). A similar text is in 11 D. II, below. At the beginning (ff. 2 b, 3) is a table showing the passages corresponding to the various tituli of the compilations of Decretals. On the margins and fly-leaves, besides commonplaces of canon law and theology, mnemonic verses, &c., is the following miscellancous matter:-(a) 'Caseus commendat seipsum', ten elegiac lines beg. 'Ignari medici me dicunt esse nociuum'. Five of these are foun in the additions to the Schola Salernitana by Arnaldus de Villa Nova, see Regimen Sanitatis Salernitarum, ed. Ordronaux (Philadelphia, 1870), p. 74. f. 5b;-(b) Virtutes berilli', eight hexameters beg. 'Hec lapis ad nostras partes descendit ab Indis'. f. 286 b;-(c) Note of the supernatural disappearance of the body 'unius falsi questoris' in the parish of S. Margaret, Westminster, in 1300. f. 338 b;-(d). Drafts of two letters relating to the diocese of Ferns, viz. a power from Galfridus Wytteley, treasurer, to Rob. Sessil as his 'nuntius et excusator' at Dublin [one Galfridus appears to have held the post in 1331], and a letter from the official to the vicar of Kylcowan [Kilcowan, co. Wexford] about the dower of Alicia, widow of Simon de Chamur (or de la Chamur). f. 339 b; -(e) A letter purporting to be a decretal of Pope Gregory [XII] touching the custom of canons of Lichfield giving dinners on coming into residence, dated 'Senis, iv. Id. Dec. pontif. nostri anno primo'. f. 340;-(f) Latin verses, chiefly proverbial ; six distichs, a quatrain, and a single verse. ff. 340 b, 341 b. Vellum; ff. i + 341. 18 in. x 111/4 in. Early XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves, with catchwords. Sec. fol. 'autem canon'. One miniature-initial (God the Father) in English style with border is all that is inserted; other initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged (f. 340 b) to 'mag. Ioh. de Hugate', Master of Balliol College, Oxford (in succession to Wyclifre), in I366. He pledged it at Oxford in 1372, 'Caucio mag. Ioh. de Hugate, loh. Midilton, Ioh. Alre, Steff. Staunton, Ioh. Anstan et Ioh. More exposita in cista Warwyci die s. Georgii [23 Apr.] anno (&c.) pro nouem marcis et quadraginta denariis'. Afterwards apparently belonged to John Wycliffe, the reformer, who pledged it, 23 Oct. 1381, 'Cauclo magistri I. Wycliffe, Rob. Alington, Will. Weilisthorp, Mathei Wilisthorp, Galfridi Wike exponitur in cista Vaghan et Husi pro vi. libris et xl. denariis, feria tertia, proxima post festum sancti Luce anno domini mccc. octogesimo primo'. !For the history of the two chests see Anstey, Munimenta Academica (Rolls Series), pp. 62, 158. Wycliffe's condemnation by the provincial council was in May, 1382. On f. 341 b is the note 'Memorandum quod R. Brynkele moriebatur xii. dic Sept. in aurora anno dom. m.cccc. xii.' Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1380'; cat. of 1666, ff. 9, 9b or 10; CMA. 8373 or 8386.