Royal MS 13 A VII

THEOLOGICAL TREATISES the chronicle of Martinus Polonus, documents relating to Bardney Abbey, &c., in Latin, viz.:

1. Portion of a theological treatise, wanting both the beginning and the end, the opening words being 'coactus tamen uoluit'. The first complete ch. (f. 3 b) is 'De mendacio' and begins 'Quoniam periurium fundatur inmendacio'. It is followed by chapters 'De sortilegis' (f. 5), 'De feriis' (f. 7), 'De sacrilegio' (f. 8), 'De emunitate ecclesie' (f. 8 b), &c., the last (incomplete) being De sepulturis' (f. 14b). f. 2. This article is on leaves smaller than the rest of the volume, and originally formed part of another MS.

2. 'Incipit cronica fratris Martini domini pape penitentiarii et capellani': the Chronicle of Popes and Emperors by Martinus Polonus or Oppaviensis. The later recension (cf. 13 A. v) continued to the death of Pope John XXI and election of Nicholas III in 1277. The passage 'Compilaui autem presens opusculum' follows immediately after the preface 'Quoniam scire tempora' and before the long insertion 'De quatuor regnis', &c. The passage concerning Pope Joan is included in the text (f. 38b). The Chronicle of the Emperors is written on the recto side of the leaves, facing the Chronicle of the Popes. It ends 'iuxta Traponam in domo fratrum ordinis Carmeli est de, functus' (cf. Mon. Germ. Hist. xxii, p. 474, note). Colophon, 'Expliciunt Cronica Martini'. f. 15.

3. 'De confessione. Incipit tractatus fratris Roberti de Culwardeby, Portuensis episcopi, cardinalis Romane curie, quondam archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. de confessione. de satisfaccione. misericordia. elemosina. oracione. et de carnis affliccione et eius capitulis': a treatise on confession, &c., as above, by Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury 1272-1278, and Cardinal-bishop of Porto 1278 (d. 1279). Beg. 'Quid sit confessio. Dicit Hugo de Sancto Victore'. The last portion is 'De labore' and ends 'stulti sunt qui laborare nolunt temporaliter ut uitent laborem eternaliter'. Colophon, 'Explicit tractatus fratris Rob. de Culuuardbi, cardinalis', &c. See Quetif-Echard, Scriptores Ord. Praedic. i, p. 379, with a reference to the present MS. only. f. 49.

4. 'Incipiunt noue constituciones Nicholai pape iii', viz.:-(a) On the oath to observe statutes, &c., taken by bishops and others on entering upon office, dat. 18 Mar. 1280, beg. 'Contingit in nonnullis' (Potthast, Regesta, no. 21692, Friedberg, Corpus Juris Canon. ii, 1881, col. 1003). f. 138b;-(b) 'De electionibus et electis', dat.

13 Dec. 1279, beg. 'Cupientes ecclesiarum vacationibus' (see Potthast, no. 21665, Raynaldus, Annales, 1748, iii, p. 501). f. 139.

5. 'Incipit Viridarium consolacionis', the title being explained in the preface, 'quia, sicut in viridario flores et fructus diuersimode inueniuntur, ita in hoc opusculo plura et diuersa reperiuntur que deuoti legentis animum miro modo demulcent'. Divided into five parts, the first four treating of vices and virtues, the fifth, in 17 'tractatus', of confession, penitence, conscience, prayer, &c. Preface beg. 'Quoniam, ut ait apostolus Petrus, Spiritu Sancto'; 'tractatus' i, 'Quoniam, ut ait apost. Petrus, omne peccatum'. Other copies are in Arundel MS. 400 and at Oxford, Canon. Misc. 149, f. 116b, 311, f. 1. f. 140.

6. 'Incipit liber de conseruanda sanitate'. Beg, 'Erubescant Iudei, confundantur Saraceni', The author speaks of himself as 'Magister P. Hispanus, nacione Compostellanus et expertus in tota Ytalia, Burgundia, Viania, Prouincia, Gasconia, Alumpnia et in quibusdam partibus Hispanie', i. e. Petrus Hispanus, afterwards Pope John XXI (1276-77). The work differs from his Thesaurus Pauperum, and is said to have been written by him for Blanche, Queen of France (Hist, Litt. de la France, xix, p. 328). Colophon, 'Explicit summa mag. P. de conseruanda sanitate et de hiis que conferunt et nocent. Finito libro reddatur gratia Christo. Amen. Rogetis deum pro anima mag. P. qui hunc librum composuit'. f. 140.

7. Short sermon on 1 Sam. vii. 3, 'Preparate corda vestra Deo', &c., beg. 'Consuetum est quod quando aliquis uult'; followed by others on Ps. CXV. 16 and Ps. xvii. 40 and by various theological pieces. ff. 154- 157, 160-162.

At the foot of f. 157 is a note, in the same hand as the text, directing the reader to f. 160, the greater part of art. 8 intervening.

8. Mandate of Pope Gregory X to [Rob. Kilwardby,] Archbishop of Canterbury, to take proceedings on complaints of [Walter Bronscomb,] Bishop of Exeter, against certain 'familiares' of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, for maltreating the archdeacon of Cornwall and other clerics at S. Alun [St. Aleyn, near Truro], and against John 'dictus Longus', sheriff of Cornwall, and John Beupré, seneschal of Cornwall, for seizing and imprisoning John his official. Dat. Lyons, 30 Apr. a^o 3 [1274]. Beg. 'Exposuit nobis fr. noster ep. Exoniensis'. f. 157 b.

9. Copies of documents relating to Bardney Abbey, co. Lincoln, viz.:

(a) 'Appellacio': an appeal to the Pope by Nicholas de Herkinton, monk, as proctor for the Bishop of Lincoln and Prior Nicholas and other monks of Bardney, against the reinstatement as abbot of Peter de Barthon, 'filius olim Walteri rectoris ecclesie de Stanton,' with a recital of proccedings in the dispute (cf. Dugdale, Monasticon, i, pp. 625, 634; Bliss, Cal. of Papal Registers, Papal Letters, i, p. 452); dat.Viterbo, 4 Nov. 1277. ff. 158-159 b, 162;-

(b) Letter from 'Dom. Foringer' to the above Nich. de Herkinton, with instructions as to the reading of his appeal before the Archbishop of Canterbury and 'illo abbate intruso'; [1277]. f. 162;-

(c) Petition to the Pope from the above Nicholas 'et alii sibi in hac parte adherentes, maior et sanior pars conuentus', praying for relief and inquiry; [1277]. f. 162 b;-(d) Petition to the Pope from N. de N., monk of B[ardney, the letter 'B' being written over 'N'], for a mandate for his readmission to the abbey; [circ. 1280]. The petitioner states that, a sum of money having been found in his bed, he had been imprisoned, but had escaped ('a quo carcere exiens hora captata') and appealed to Rome; the prior, however, refused to readmit him on letters from the Papal Penitentiary, and after begging his bread 'hostiatim' for two years he again had recourse to Rome for relief. f.43b;-(e) Mandate of Pope Nicholas III to the Bishop of Lincoln, to compel the abbot and convent of B[ardney, 'B' again written over 'N',] to support the above petitioner, beg. 'Constitutus in presentia nostra'; [circ. 1280]. f. 164. Alternative forms of the last two documents are also given, ff. 163 b, 164. See also under art. 12.

10. Mandate of Pope Nicholas III [to the abbots of S. Augustine's, Canterbury, and Glastonbury and another] to cite the Bishop of Winchester to answer to the plaint of Andrew de Londoniis, papal chaplain, ejected Prior of Winchester, and John de Trevilla, monk of the same, relative to the election of a prior and the rights of the bishop over the convent; [Rome, 8 Apr. 1278]. The date is not given, but see Bliss, op. cit. i, p. 455. f. 162 b.

11. 'Incipit tractatus de terminalibus et x. preceptis et de hiis que pertinent ad missam et de misteriis misse'; made up of short passages on the spiritual cities of refuge, the vices, the 'ix muse theologorum', the appropriation of the Feasts of the Nativity, Resurrection, and Pentecost to the Three Persons of the Trinity, the 'Psalterium Decacordum', the Beatitudes, various church services and observances, the degrees of clergy, &c. Beg. 'Sex ciuitatum refugia sunt. Prima est cognicio verbi'. f. 164 b.

At the end (f. 167) is the epitaph:

Hic situs est clarus Willelmus de Gabriana, Cui suberant artes, canon[es], lex Iustiniana, Qui prius ostensis (sic, for Astensis) presul fait ante uocatus, Archiepiscopus est Rauenne sede locatus. A siluis ad agros, ab agris ad prelia uenit, Musa Maronco nobilis ingenio.

Guglielmo da Cabriano was professor of civil law at Bologna 1166 and Archbishop of Ravenna 1190-1201 (Mazzetti, Repert. di Professori ... di Bologna, 1847, p. 170, Savigny, Gesch. des röm. Rechts im Mittelatter, iv, 1850, p. 237).

12. Forms of documents, viz.:-(a) 'Carta de corediis', a grant by the abbot and convent 'de N.' to 'W. de N., clerico nostro' of a monk's portion or corrody for life. f. 167;-(b) Two forms of a bond, with various conditions. f. 167 b;-(c) Mandate from Pope Nicholas III to the Bishop of Lincoln to examine into the case of W., an ejected Benedictine monk of Lincoln diocese, who was desirous of readmission (cf. art. 9, d, e). f. 167 b.

13. Theological notes on various subjects, as 'Quatuor sunt temptacionum modi', 'Quatuor sunt que animam polluunt', 'Quadruplex est paradisus', &c. f. 168.

14. Notes of ecclesiastical 'formae', as 'De formis libellorum'-'citacionis'-'apostolorum'-'excommunicationis'-'eleccionis'-'scrutinii'; followed by references to the canon law under various headings, as 'Dilapidacio'-'Conspiracio'-'Coniuracio'-'Conuentus', 'Abbas', &c. f. 168 b.

15. 'De penitencia', or 'Quomodo sacerdos se habebit cum penitentibus'. Beg. 'Depredari desiderat qui tesaurum in uia puplice deportat'. Colophon, 'Ex. plicit institucio canonica de penitenciis et remissionibus'. f. 172.

16. Extracts from the Moralia and Homeliae of S. Gregory. p. 173.

17. Letter of A., Abbot of Pershore, to the abbot and convent of Bardney, recommending the monk Benedict, who was transferred to the latter house. An insertion of the 14th cent. An Anselm was abbot of Pershore 1198-1203; but the letter is probably copied merely as a form, the initial A referring to no particular abbot. f. 176 b.

The fly-leaves (ff. 1, 177, 178) contain portions of offices of S. Owald and All Saints (12th cent), with square neums on a 4-line stave.

Vellum ; ff. 178. 8³/₄ in. x 6¹/₄ in. End of XIII cent. Gatherings (excl. fly-leaves), i¹³, ii¹², iii⁶, iv, v⁸, vi, vii¹⁰, viii⁹, ix¹², x⁵, xi, xii⁸, xiii¹, xiv, xv⁸, xvi¹², xvii⁸, xviii⁶, xix¹⁴, xx⁵, xxi⁴. In various hands, and mostly in double columns; plain initials in red. On f. 14 b (end of art. 1, see above) is written, in a 15th cent. hand, 'Liber sancti Oswoldi de Bardney' [Bardney Abbey, co. Linc.], and on f, 1 'Bardney'. Noted at Bardney by Leland (Roy. App. 69, f. 5 b) under the title 'Cronica fratris Martini'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 215' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 27); cat. of 1666, f. 4; CMA. 8007-8009, 8325