Royal MS 11 A XV

TRACTSON canon law procedure and forms of process, in Latin, viz. :-

1. Johannes de Urbach, De ordine iudiciario (cf. 9 A. vi). Neither title nor author's name are given. The writer of art. 5, below, refers to it under the name 'Prothodoxiniis de ordine iudiciario'. Beg. 'Rex pacificus cunctorum causa'. f. 1.

2. Formula of appeal, being a copy of a notarial document of appeal to Rome by Thomas [de Brantinghaml Bishop of Exeter, dated Chudleigh, 20 Aug. 1372. f.97.

3. Summula que vocatur Vt nos minores' (so colophon): describing the stages of procedure as divided into ten distinct 'tempora'. The names in the formulae, where they occur, refer to Paris. Variant forms of the tract are in 11 B. XIV, art. 36, and Cotton Fragments, vi, f. 9. Beg. 'Ut nos minores in iure aliquo modo possimus instruere'; ends 'et illuc recurramus, &c., f. 98.

4. 'Modicus tractatus de processu iudicii'. This anonymous treatise, formerly wrongly attributed to Johannes Andreae, is found with Urbach's work in a volume of miscellaneous tracts which begins with Libellus dans modum legendi abbrevialuras (Strassburg, 1490, B. M. press-mark 5306 f.), and also in an Erfurt MS (Bibl. Reg. 69, see Muther's ed. of Urbach), and is printed in part by Rockinger in Quellen zur Bayerischen und Deuischen Geschichle (Munich, 1864), ix, p. 993. Cf. Schulte, Gesch. der Quellen des can. Rechts, ii, p. 225. The names in the citations vary in the different texts some referring to Mainz, others, as here, to Speier. Beg. 'Antequam de processu iudicii'. f. 122.

5. 'Hic incipit opus aureum pro curiis cotidianis tam in practica quam super arte speculatiua, &c.': a formulary of ecclesiastical writs, consisting in the main of copies from actual documents, with notes, extracts from the canonists, &c. The writs mostly contain the names of parties, &c., and the great majority refer to the archdeaconry of Oxford in Lincoln diocese, the work being apparently either written by, or compiled from the papers of, John Boteler (prebendary of Lincoln 1461, archdeacon of Oxford 1467-1472). Others refer to the diocese of Salisbury and to the court of the Chancellor of Oxford University. One is dated 1466. Among the constitutions quoted is one, 'De certificatoriis faciendis, constitucio Robertina', which is printed by Wilkins, Concilia, ii, P. 57, as by John Peckham. The collection beg. 'Iohannes Boteler decretorum doctor'. f. 130.

Vellum; ff. i + 261. 83/4 in. x 6 in. XV cent. Gatherings (incl. blank leaves, unnumbered), i-xi¹², xii-xxvii⁸. Written in England. Sec. fol. 'Est autem ipsa'. Illuminated initial and border on f. 2. Art. 5, in another hand, has flourished borders in red and blue (ff. 130, 215). Old Royal press-mark 'no. 839' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 35); cat. of 1666, f. 10 CMA. 8429