Royal MS 11 C VII

DECRETALS: the five Compilationes Antiquae or collections carlier than that of Gregory IX. First printed by Antonio Agustin and Cironius, and fully edited by Friedberg, Quinque Compilationes, Leipzig, 1882. Contents:-

1. Calendar, with names of English saints. Additions in 13th-14th cent. hands are on 13 May, 'Obitus magistri R. de Torp cuius anime', &c., and on 14 May, 'Obitus Sibille sororis mee'. ff. 3, 5. Between the two leaves of the calendar is one leaf (f. 4) of an epitome to the first three collections (the leaf following it is at f. 245). On the blank page at the end (f. 5 b) is inserted the full text of Gregory IX's decretal 'Dudum inter priorem' (Potthast, Reg. no. 9681), addressed to the Dean, &c., of Lincoln, concerning a dispute between the Prior of Butley and Prioress of Campsey, co. Suff., about tithes, &c., in Dedham, co. Essex, dated 28 June, 1230.

2. 'Breuiarium mag. B[ernardi] Papiensis prepositi': the compilation of decretals made by Bernardo Balbi, provost of Pavia, afterwards Bishop of Faenza (1192) and of Pavia (1198), known as Compilatio Prima. Beg. 'Iuste iudicate, filii'. Copious marginal gloss, by Vincentius, Alanus, 'qwicredusl and others, beg. Iuste iudicale, filii: Formauit dominus hominem'. f. 6. Two decretals added at the end (f. 79 b) purport to be of Alexander III, viz.:-(a) 'Ex litteris quas nobis' (Jaffé-Wattenbach, no. 14179);-(b) 'Prudentiam tuam ' (ib. no. 17019, ascribed to Celestine III). Half of f. 80 has been cut away.

3. 'Incipiunt decretales secundi uoluminis': Com. pilatio Secunda, by Johannes Gallensis (see Schulte, Gesch. der Quellen des can. Rechts, i, p. 188). Beg. 'Clemens tertius Anthonio episcopo, pars capituli Significasti: Praeterea de lege illa'. Gloss, as in preceding art., beg. 'Hoc crat maxima iniquitas'. f. 81.

4. 'Liber primus (-quintus) decretalium Innocencii tercii secundum mag. Petrum Beneuentanum fideliter compilatarum': Compilatio Tertia, the revision by Cardinal Pietro da Benevento of the collection (cf. 9 B. XI) of Bernard of Compostella, covering the first twelve years of Innocent's pontificate. Preface of Innocent, addressed to Bologna, beg. 'Deuotioni uestre insinuatione presentium'. Bernard's epilogue is not given. Marginal gloss, in a different hand from the preceding articles, mainly by one canonist, whose siglumis Io., perhaps Johannes Gallensis. Beg. 'Tamen licet non sit in hac compilacione'. Colophon, 'Finita glosa que stultis est venenosa'. f. 113.

5. Compilatio Quarta: a supplementary collection of Innocent's decretals, mainly from the constitutions of the Lateran Council of 1215. Beg. 'Firmiter credimus et simpliciter confitemur'. Gloss, by Jo[hannes Teutonicus?] and others, beg. 'Firmiter credimus: Ista circa litteram sunt inquirenda'. f. 210. Between artt. 5, 6 are added a few single decretals, &c., viz.:-

(a) Honorius Ill, 'Ex parte karissime filie B.' (Potthast, Reg., app. no. 5343 A). f. 243b;-(b) Tract, incomplete, on procedure, by ?ne Galterus, who professes to follow 'uestigia mei excellentis zne-.enli mae-.istri P. Peneressi'. Beg. 'Scienciam omnes naturaliter appetunt et eius fructus'. Breaks off 'pro quanta summa fuerit obligata'. f. 244;-(c) Honorius III to Pandulph, Bishop-elect of Norwich, 'Quoniam melius est', dated 2 May, 1226 (Bliis, Cat. of Papal Letters, i, p. 66). f. 244 b;-(d) Celestine III to the Archbishop of Tours and Bishop of Angers,' Cum inter canonicos'. f. 244b; -(e) Lucius III to the Archbishop of Pisa, 'Suggestum est auribus', daied 31 Oct. s.a. f. 244 b. The last two seem not to be in Jaffé. F. 245 is the continuation of f. 4 (see above).

6. Compilatio Quinta: the collection of decretals of Honorius III which is known by the name of Tancred, archdeacon of Bologna, dated 2 May, 1226. Beg. 'Noue causarum emergentium questiones'. Copious anonymous marginal gloss, beg. 'Nouis: quia nouis morbis noua conuenit antidota'. f. 246.

On the fly-leaves are added:-(a) A decretal, or decretals, with- ?ut title, 'beg. Qulsquis in suis dilacionibus'. The latter part, Cum illorum absolucio', is apparently by Innocent III (Potthast, no. 1326). f. 272b;-(b) 'Versus d(?) de deo', 33 hexameters, beg. 'Ens iustus sine iusticia, uiuens sine uita', followed by 24 On the vanity of human life, beg. 'Respice quam celeri fugiant mortalia cursu'. f. 277, b. Other notes on canon law are on f. 273. Vellum; ff. 273. 141/2 in. x 10 in. XIII cent. Gatherings (beg.

f. 6), art. 2, i-vi¹⁰, vii⁸, viii⁷; art. 3, i⁸, ii, iii¹²; art. 4, i-ix¹⁰, x⁷; art. 5, i¹⁰, ii⁸, iii¹², iv⁴, v²; art. 6, i, ii¹⁰, iii⁶. Double columns. Written in England. Sec.fol. 'in posterioribus'. Initials flourished in red and blue. On f. 2 is a 15th cent. owner's name, 'Thomas Faux'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 130' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 26); not identified in cat. of 1666 or CMA.