Royal Appendix MS 7

NINE Sermons preached at the Council of Constance (1414-1418), bound with a 17th cent. fragment by Sir Robert Cotton. Contents:-

1. Anonymous sermon on St. Stephen's day [26 Dec. s. a., 1414-1417]. A leaf is lost after f. 1. Beg. 'Benedictus qui uenit, &c. Math. xxiii. [39] et in ewangelio'. f. 1.

2. 'Alius sermo'. with colophon, 'Explicit sermo exilis predicatus per fratrem Galfridum Schale prouincie Anglie doctorem immeritum vniuersitatis Cantabrigie ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini dominica infra octauam epiphanie in concilio Constantiensi anno domini m cccc vii [sic, for 10 Jan. 1416/7] secundum computacionem Romane ecclesie'. Beg. 'Unum corpus (&c.) Ro. xii.[5] et in huius dominice'. f. 6.

3. 'Sermo fratris Ieronimi ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini electi Ariminensis ambassiatoris magnificorum dominorum de Maletestis sacre theologie professoris'; by Gerolamo Savio or Leonardi, Bishop of Rimini 1418-1435, third Sunday in Advent s. a. [1416 or 1417]. Beg. 'Pax dei exsuperat omnem sensum ad Phil. iv. [7] et in epistola . . . . Reuerendorum patrum et dominorum, &c. Licet sepius a pluribus'. f. 12.

4. 'Sermo factus Constancie ipso die Epiphanie domini coram sacro gen[er]ali concilio per magistrum Ricardum Flemmyng [Bishop of Lincoln 1419-1431] doctorem in sacra theologia alme vniuersitatis Oxoniensis anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo decimo septimo' [6 Jan. 1417]. Beg. 'Surge illuminare Iherusalem, Isa. lx cap. [1] et in hodierne solempnitatis epistolari inicio : Reuerendi patres et domini preclarissimi, ad ipsam in exordio'. f. 19.

5. 'Sermo in festo S. Ambrosii facta Constancie tempore generalis concilii per me fratrem Allexium ordinis minorum episcopum Placentinum anno domini m cccc xvi. die ut supra' [4 Apr. 1416]; by Alessio da Seregno, Bishop of Piacenza 1412-1448. Beg. 'Magnificate eum omnes populi, ad Rom. xv cap. [ii] et in epistola dominice currentis: Beatus Augustinus vitam et condicionem'. f. 28.

6. 'Sermo factus in sacrosancta synodo Constanciensi dominica prima post octauas Pasche anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo sextodecimo. Dignare me laudare te virgo sacrata' (so colophon); [26 Apr. 1416]. Without author's name. Beg. 'Fiet vnum ouile et vnus pastor, Io. xviii [or rather x. 16], et in ewangelio instantis dominice: Ingeniti potencia'. f. 36.

7. 'Sermo factus in concilio Constanciensi per maglstrum Matheum Roeder sacre theologie professorem, 1416' (so colophon); for the second Sunday in Advent, by Matthew Roeder, a graduate of the College. of Navarre at Paris. Another sermon (for Sund. after Christmas) by the same author before the council is printed by C.W.F. Walch, Monimenta Medii Aevi (Gottingen,1758), ii, p.29. Beg. 'Non preiedbit generacio hec, Luc. xxi cap. [32] et in ewangelio currentis dominice secundum usum ecclesie Parisiensis: Orthodoxi patres ac sacra generalis concio synodalis, de re tam grandi'. f. 45 b.

8. 'Sermo magistri ordinis predicatorum quem fecit in concilio generali de circumscisione domini 1417'; whether by Jean de Puinoix, Master of the Dominicans of the obedience of Benedict XIII, or by Leonardo de' Dati, who had been elected by those in the obedience of John XXIII, does not appear. A sermon by the latter (1 Mar. 1416) is printed by Walch, op. cit. iii, p. 129. Beg. 'Compertum habeo o sacrum diuinumque concilium'. f. 55.

9. Sermon for the second Sunday in Lent [15 March, 1416]; without title, but assigned in other MSS. (Mansi, Concilia, xxviii, pp. 906, 956) to Alessio da Seregno, see art. 5 above. This is the only sermon in this volume which is mentioned in Mansi's lists. Beg. 'Faciamus hic tria tabernacula, Matth. 17^o [xvii. 4], et in ewangelio hodierno. Secundum sentenciam'. f. 68 b.

10. 'A [short view of the] Raigne of Henry the third kinge of England' [by Sir Robert Cotton, written in 1614]. Imperfect by loss of (two?) leaves after f. 72, (four ?) after f. 73, and one at the end. The tract was printed in 1627, reprinted in the first edition (1657) of Cottoni Posthuma and elsewhere. Manuscript copies are very numerous. This may possibly have been a copy presented to King James I (cf. Harley MS. 252, f. 129); but it is also not impossible that it has strayed from the Cotton Collection. f. 72.

Paper; ff. 77. 83/4 in. x 6 in. (art. 10, 8 in. x 6 in. XV and (art. 10) XVII centt Artt. 1-9 beionged to [John, Lord] Lumley. Not identified in the old catalogues.