Royal MS 11 C V

TREATISES on the election of bishops, in Latin, viz.

1. 'Libellus eleccionum editus a mag. Guillelmo de Mandagoto archidiacono Nemausensi'(so colophon, or, as the rubricator gives the title, 'Decretum Electionis'): the work of Guillaume de Mandagot, archdeacon of Nîmes, afterwards Archbishop of Embrun (1295) and of Aix (1311) and Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina (1312-1321). Printed (Paris, 1523) as Tractatus utilis el perquam necessarius de electione, &c. For another copy see 6 E. VII, f. 27. Preface beg. 'Vt huius libelli noticia'; text, 'Venerabili viro discrecione sciencia et moribus'; notes, 'Venerabili, &c.: Cum illius non sim auctoritatis'. f. 1. Art. 2, is in a smaller hand and on a separate quire.

2. 'Summa mag. Laurencii de Somercote de forma eligendi' (cf. 8 C. XVI, art. 1). The author's annotations are wanting, but at the end are appended notes 'ex quibus causis potest eleccio cassari', not in the printed text or the other MSS. Preface beg. 'Omnibus sancte matris ecclesie'; text, ' Defuncto igitur episcopo 73. Vellum; ff. 78. 15 in. x 93/4 in. XV cent. Gatherings, i-vi12, vii6. Double columns. Sec.fol. 'Quadragesimo'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 264' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 27); cat. of 1666, f. 9 b; CMA. 8394.