Royal MS 11 C XI

CONSTITUTIONS of Clement V and other texts and commentaries of canon law, viz.:-

1. 'Constituciones Clementinae' (so colophon, or, as the page-heading gives it, 'Liber Septimus' Decretalium) ; see Friedberg's Corpus Iuris Canon. ii, p. 1130. Originally promulgated by Clement in 1313, but republished in their final form by John XXII in 1317 (see Schulte, Gesch. der Quellen des can. Rechts, ii, p. 45). The introductory bull of John is here addressed to the University of Oxford. Marginal apparatus by Johannes Andreae, composed in 1326; printed repeatedly (Schulte, ii, p. 217). The chapter (lib. v, tit. xi, cap. i) 'Exivi de paradyso' as in many editions, is omitted in its proper place, and added (f. 108 b), without gloss, as an appendix. f. 1.

2. Text of three decretals of John XXII, viz. 'Suscepti regiminis' (Extrav. Ioh. tit. i, cap. 2), 'Execrabilis (ib. iii, cap. i), and 'Sedes apostolica' (ib. iv, cap. i), with colophon, 'Expliciunt Extravagantes dom. lohannis pape xxii. Deo gracias'. Schulte (ii, P. 53) attributes the formation of this brief collection to the fact that the three decretals were glossed by Guillelmus de Monte Lauduno. His gloss, however, is not given here. f. 112.

3. A long decretal of Nicholas III, concerning the Friars Minor, dated at Soriano, 1 Sept. 1279; not in Potthast's Regesta. Beg. 'Exit qui seminat seminare'. f. 114.

4. 'Apparatus septimi libri' (so colophon): the Lectura super Clementinis (Schulte, ii, p. 198) of Guillelmus de Monte 'Hauduno ' (sic, cf. 6 E. I, art. 2, 7 E. V, art.2), al. Lauduno, Abbot of Monstier-Neuf in Poitiers (d. 1343). Not printed. Beg. 'Magnifice bonitatis mireque pietatis viro '. f. 121.

5. 'Reportorium mag. Wilelmi Durandi': general handbook to the contents of the Decretum and Decretals by Guillelmus Duranti the elder, papal subdeacon and chaplain, known as Speculator (cf. 10 D. II). Printed repeatedly (see Schulte, ii, p. i52). The work consists of a list, under each titulus of the Decretals, of the questions arising from it and references to the solutions. Begins, after dedication to Cardinal Matthaeus [Rubeus Ursinus, d. 1306], 'Prothoplausti rubigine humana contaminata condicio'. f. 179.

Vellum; ff. 237. 141/2 in. x 9 in. XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (x, xi⁶, xvi¹⁰, xxi¹⁰). Double columns. Sec. fol. 'hactenus impediti'. Art. 1 has a border-initial, with small figure of a jurist, and other small illuminated initials of poor execution. Art. 4 has a rather better border-initial, with small figures of judge and jurist. On 178b is a note [of pledging at Oxford ?], 'Phil. de Weston in Gloucesterschire apud Mariol hall contra officium et Iornale pro ii marcis et dimidio'. On f. 236 b is the ownership note of Reading Abbey, 'Hunc librum dedit claustralibus Radingie dompnus Thomas Erlye quondam (1409-1429) abbas predicti loci'. Cat. of 1666, f. 9 ; CMA. 8372, 8382,, 8395.