Royal MS 11 B X

TREATISES on theology and canon law, in Latin, viz.

1. 'Pupilla Oculi': the adaptation by Johannes de Burgo (cf. 7 B. X) of the manual of pastoral theology, &c., called Oculus Sacerdotis, attributed to William de Pagula (cf. 6 E. i). In ten parts, preceded by a table of capitula. Preface beg. 'Humane condicio nature iam senescente mundo'; part i, 'Vt dicit magister quarto sentenciarum in principio sacramentum'. f. 1.

2. 'Incipit modus pronunciandi sentencias excommunicacionum': really a brief manual of pastoral instruction in general. This also is chiefly derived from the Oculus Sacerdotis (see lib. ii). Beg. 'Sacerdos parochialis multadebet'. f. 173b.

3. 'Constituciones synodales hic incipiunt': the con. stitutions attributed to Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (cf. 9 A. XIV, art. 13). There are, however, several paragraphs at the end not found in the other MSS. or the printed text, while the summary appended there is here wanting. Beg. 'Debentes racionem de uobis'; ends 'in archidiaconatu nostro donec fuerit presentatus'. f. 176. Artt. 4, 5 are in a 15th cent. hand.

4. 'Hee sunt conclusiones de ymaginibus quas fecit Walterus Hylton canonicus in amore dei valde deuotus contra hereticos qui asseruerunt ymaginem crucifixi ceterorumque sanctorum ymagincs in ecclesia dei statuere ydolatriam esse': a tract which seems never to have been printed. A copy is apparently mentioned by Pits at Lincoln College, Oxford, but does not appear in Coxe's catalogue. Hilton was an Austin canon of Thurgarton, co. Notts., and is said to have died in 1395/6. Beg. 'Numquid domini nostri crucifixi'; ends 'visionis beate, ad quam, &c. Explicit tractatus de ymaginibus contra cos qui uolunt eas in ecclesia dei collocatas destruere'. f. 178.

5. A short note De preceptis from Nicholas de Lyra. f. 183 b. Art. 6 is added, in a 15th cent. hand, at the end of the table to art. 1, and continued here. Art. 7 is in the same hand.

6. The Vision of St. Paul (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, ii, p. 406, and cf. 8 B. X, art. 2, &c.). Beg. 'Dies dominicus est dies electus'. ff. 2, 184.

7. Apocryphal epistle of Christ to S. Peter, 'in civitate Cassiana', on the observance of Sunday (cf. 8 F. VI, art. 5). Beg. 'Quare nescitis deum nec sanctum diem dominicum'. The 'epistle' ends 'cum angelis meis', and is followed by two paragraphs beg. 'Et istam epistolam legere debet', and 'Et ideo, boni Christiani, mementote quod audistis'. f. 184.

8. Three forms of absolution. f. 184 b. Two fly-leaves (ff. i, ii) are from a 15th cent. Gradual, music not inserted. Four others (ff. 184-188) are from a roll of diet accompts of some monastery or large household for April in a year in which 3 April was a Sunday, Easter cither on or before that date, apparently therefore 1390, 1401, or 1407. Vellum; ff. iii + 188. 101/2 in. x 7 in. Late XIV and XV centt. Gatherings (excl. fly-leaves) of io leaves (i³, xviii, xix⁶). Sec. fol. 'sunt sacramenta'. Initials flourished in red and blue. On the fly-leaves occur the names of Hen. Milwar (f. ii) and Will. Bawdwyn (f. 186 b). Afterwards belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 107; cat. of 1666, f. 6 ; CMA. 7863, 8088, 8089.

includes:

• ff. 184-188 Accounts: Diet-roll of a monastery: circa 1400: Fragm.