JOHN OF FAENZA &c.; S. XIII-XIV

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Title

JOHN OF FAENZA &c.; S. XIII-XIV

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 266

Place of origin

England

Italy

Date

s. xiv in.

s. xiii1

s. xiii

Language

Latin

Anglo-Norman

Merton College MS. 266 – Part I (fols. 1–12)

(fols. 1–2v) Covered with informal notes in an early anglicana hand, mostly concerning the contents of the Decretum. On f. 1 is a prayer in French, and a list, in 2 cols, of the provinces of the Franciscan order, Hungaria—Siria, with the numbers of convents in each, headed ‘Prouincia fratrum minorum si queris denominacio scriptus est fratris beati Bartholomei anno Domini 1242 in capitulo prouincialis[sic].’ Above is ‘Frater Hugo de confessione dixit ...’.

(fols. 3–12v)

Distinctiones

Verses

Merton College MS. 266 – Part II (fols. 13–142v)

1. (fols. 13–128, 130–41) JOHN OF FAENZA Summa super Decretum

(fol. 129rv) Filled with informal notes on the contents of the Decretum.

Informal notes and mnemonic verses in anglicana hands also occur on fols. 140v-2v, including a long set of verses ‘De primo libro sentenciarum summaria contumelia. A. Res et signum sunt doctrine duo membra’ (WIC 81). At the foot of f. 141 is a very roughly-written note ‘Hic in fine(?) de patronatu(?) Oseneii scripta fidens’. At the foot of f. 142v is a draft letter, written by Dionysia de Monti Canisio (Mountchensey) at ‘Lud’’ to L(aurence) bp. of Rochester (1251–74), concerning a presentation to the church of ‘Ludesddone’ (Luddesdown) in his diocese. Walter of Bibbesworth wrote his Treitiz de Langage for her children (Dean & Boulton, no. 285).

Merton College MS. 266 – Part III (fols. 143–240v)

2. (fols. 143–92v) Alphabetical Index to the Decretals

3. (fols. 192v–4) A list of rubrics to the Decretals

4. (fols. 194–5v) A list of the key words in art. 5.

5. (fols. 196–236v) Another alphabetical Index to the Decretals

6. (fols. 236v–7) Distinctiones Decretorum

7. (fols. 237v–8v) Decretum Metricum

(fols. 238v–40v) Informal notes and mnemonic verses, incl. (f. 239) ‘Opiniones magistri sententiarum reprobate’, ‘Hec sunt errores contra ueritatem fidei catholice qui dampnati sunt ab episcopo Willelmo Paris’ ...’, dated 1240, followed by other lists of errors. At the head of f. 240v is a table of contents: ‘In hoc uolumine continent | Notabilia supra decreta | liber decretorum abreuiatus | concordancie decretalium | concordancie decretorum’, the last three titles braced together. Nearby are notes of persons holding lands mainly in the area of Worksop (Notts.): frater domini Walteri camerarii, D. Ricardus de Lauhtone (Laughton Le Morehen, Lincs.), Edmundus de Thorp, Thorp in Lindrik (Thorpe Salvin, Notts.), Blithe uersus Sirewude (Blyth, Notts.), Lindrik (now surviving as Lindrick Common and Carlton in Lindrick, Notts.), the abbey of Worksop, Tikehelle (Tickhill, Yorks.), Rufford in Sirewde (Rufford, Notts.), Willelmus de Cressi in Marcham (Markham, Notts.), Nottingham, Henricus de Tiuerlaw, Colingham (Collingham, Notts.). Also a note on distances between Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse, Nantes and other places in southern France.

Merton College MS. 266 – Part IV (fols. 241–288v)

8. (fols. 241–56) Rubric: Kalendarium ad inueniendum per combinationes duarum primarum uocalium in qualibet dictione omnes materias de quibus loquitur in nouis decretalibus cuius subtilitas quinque uersibus subsequentibus datur intelligi

9. (fols. 256rv) A ?sermon on the virtues of the Decretum

10. (fols. 257–88; 288v blank) An alphabetical index to the ?Decretum

Merton College MS. 266 – Part V (fols. 289–302v)

11. (fols. 289–302v) A series of academic speeches to incepting doctors of canon law

Rubric: Incipit pulcra introduccio libri decretorum cum diuisione eiusdem

Incipit: In nomine summi gloriosissimi Saluatoris sublimisque Creatoris omnipotentis

Incipit: In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti ad quod facit lxxiii Di. in nomine &c.

Rubric: Pulcra introductio decretalium uel etiam decretorum.

Incipit: Decretalium. A a a nescio loqui quia puer ego sum. Verba ista loquuntur viii. q. i. in scripturis

Incipit: Decretarum. ⟨B⟩eatus homo qui inuenerit sapientiam ...; Verba sunt e’i[sic] [pro regis siue Salomonis] in parabolis cui datus fuit thesaurus sapientie

Rubric: Sequitur pulcra benedictio que requiritur in dacione libri decretorum.

Rubric: Incipit pulcra introductio libri decretorum cum diuisione eiusdem.

Rubric: Pulcherrimum p(roemi)um super decretales.

Rubric: Pulcherrima introductio libri decretorum.

Rubric: In datione libri decretorum.

Rubric: In libro regend’.

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

304 leaves (i + 304, om. 230) The edges savagely retrimmed with loss of marginalia, and spattered with red. Early foliation runs 1 (mod. 4)-10, (probably in another hand) 1–129 (141). II has medieval pagination, in pencil, at the foot of (mainly) each verso, as far as 72 (f. 48v).

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i, 303–4 are paper binding leaves; 304 and a former bifolium before i, now only stubs, are from a printed copy of one of Hieronymus Zanchius’s works (cap. xix De dolore ac poena cacodaem[onum]). f. 1 was a pastedown in an earlier binding. It has the marks of two straps and perhaps of an iron chain-staple at the foot, near the foredge.

Provenance

At the foot of f. 302v is an erased inscription of 3–4 lines. At the foot of f. 37, in an early hand, ‘Iste quaternus restituatur domino Ioseph uicario de Cestrehunte’ (Cheshunt, Herts.).

At the foot of f. 300v is a note in anglicana headed ‘Barnbye’. This might be Thomas de Barneby (BRUO 111), fellow of Merton in 1276, twenty-third lector of the Oxford Franciscans, c. 1291–2, probably warden of York when on 12 Oct. 1300 he presented to Bp. Dalderby of Lincoln friars from Lincoln, Grimsby and Boston for licences to hear confessions. Nonetheless, it is not known when the book came to the College prior to s. xvii in.

On f. i is a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘P. 4. 17. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘G. 1. 4 (CCLXVI)’ in red. Inside the front board is another title, s. xvii, and the College bookplate.

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