Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Manuscript codex combining a manual-like compliation of legal-theological texts and ecclesiastical statutes, compiled in England in the mid 14th century, afterwards acquired by George Davenport and presented by him to Bishop Cosin's Library around 1670.
Parchment; quires with hair-side outermost; flaws, stitched up f.1 and 101, and flayed edges, e.g. f.164., all edges cropped (see turned-in square, f.20). Endleaves 17th century paper.
foliated i- iv, 1-209.
1-138, 146 + 1 leaf (f.111) after 6; 158; 16-178; 18-198; 20-268
Pricking in outer and inner margins of quires 1-5. Written space 112-116 x 72 mm; framed in sharp grey, with similar ruling in quire 26 only. 22-23 or, quires 18-24, 24-25 long lines.
Written in anglicana of documentary type, proficiently, by two or three hands with changes of ink at f.34r, 136r (181) and 152r (201), the second sometimes using a redundant “u” before the “9” abbreviation for “us”. Some marginal rubrics.
Paraphs in red. Initial, to item 1, 2-line, red; initials not filled f.107r-111vr and 115r-149r. Running titles. In black for some portions, often underlined in red.
Correction by subpunction, e.g. f.13v; erasure, by main scribe, f.29r last line, f.33r top line. Original side-notes and “nota” in black or red. Marginal note, 15th century, f.180v.
Brown calf, three spine bands with fillets, head and tail bands of plaited green and white thread; covers bearing frames with doubled fillets and Hugh Hutchinson's roll A, with roll D on board edges, all blind, late 17th century; 1 clasp. Ink and gilt press numbers on spine. Spine refixed with new joints in house, about 2000.
Written in England, mid 14th century.
Scribbles, mid 16th century, on several leaves, including, f.203r, “Roboard Basam owe thes bocke”, “John bas sam Ro bert Bas sam thom mas bas samn gorg bas san ... stram Pry kar gryme ..”; pen-trials probably by same hand, f.132v, 150v, cropped. Note of contents by George Davenport, f.ivv; his content notes, f.143r, 146r, 147v, 151v, 164v.
Manual of texts copied continuously, with only occasional engrossed captions, side-notes and running heads, in black, underlined in red or rubricated, separating them or indicating the subjects. Starts with definitions (punctuated by red paraphs) of terms, e.g. Usurarius, Usufructuarius, and then (f.2v) “Matrimonium: Ista sunt que impediunt matrimonium contrahendum et dirimunt iam contractum ...” citing the Decretum, xxxix, 1 & 2, etc., and Decretales. On f.17r includes a distich “Excusare metus ...” Walther (1963), 8407. From f.17v “De impedimento ordinis et quid sit symonia ...” continuing to other legal questions, e.g. “Restitucio” from f.24r, “De usura” from f.25v. Ends (unfinished?) at foot of f.33r. f.33v blank, but several words and perhaps all on its first line erased. Some of this rather rambling compendium of canon law and pastoral theology appears to be taken from Raymond de Peñaforte, Summa de casibus penitentiae (Bloomfield no.5054); f.4r line 12 begins “Sponsalia sunt futurarum nupciarum promissio 30 q... ” as Bk IV tit. I, i. It also cites other authors e.g. “H & B” on decretals, f.5v, “B” f.7r, “secundum H & Ray” and “secundum Ray” f.19v, “Johannes” f.20r, and again “Ray” f.23v. It includes extracts, mostly reworked, from Raymond's Summa, e.g. Bk IV tit. i-xi, f.4r-17v; Bk I tit. i, viii, f.17v-19r; “De tercio libro” [i.e. tit.II, quod ordinandus sit sine crimine] f.27r. Also what may be comments on Raymund, e.g. f.34r on the definition of simony, which starts as Bloomfield 5746; and f.46r-47r Usura. On f.47r “Oratio dominica” is a table of three columns headed Infirmitates, Planctus, Preparaciones, and corresponding Vicia, Peticiones, Mores below; on f.47v four columns headed Medicina, Sanitas, Gaudium intra, Gaudium extra, with Habitus, Virtutes, Dotes and Beatitudines corresponding below: “In hac tabula precedenti est tota cura officii pastoralis ...”. On f.48r-50v “Excommunicacio” and the conditions of absolution. Then articles of the faith, sacraments, sins and virtues, to f.56v; on tithes f.57r; impediments to matrimony f.57r-59v; impediments to office or orders f.60r; Necessaria in sacramento altaris f.60r-v; Substancialia penitentie f.60v-61r; Genera peccati f.61r-v; Substancialia in baptismo 61v; Opera caritatis spiritualiter, Miseria condicionis humane, Dignitas condicionis humane, 62r-63r; Cristus orauit ter contra peccata (and other catechetical lists) 63r-66v, including Versus (5) on baptism and confirmation, “Inprimit adnichilat ... ”, Walther (1963) 11621a, f.65r; Questio de dileccione f.67r-68v; Temptacio f.68v-69v; Baptismus f.69v-80v; Confirmacio f.81r-v; Polluciones f.81v-83v; Peccatum originale f.83r-86v; Liberum arbitrium f.86v-88v; Sequitur de misse celebracione f.88v-90r; Sacramentum altaris f.90r-104v, including Versus (5), “Tres sunt ecclesie partes ...”, Walther (1963) 31564, cf. Initia 19412; An christus fuit homo in triduo (citing Augustine) f.104v; De diuisione specierum f.106r; Consecracio ecclesie f.106r-110r; de vtensilibus ecclesie f.110r-v; De vestibus episcopi f.110v-111v. Mnemonic verses on f.17r Walther (1963) 8407, f.65r Walther (1963) 11621a, f.97v Walther (1963) 31356, and others not recorded. Lower half of f.111v blank (end of quire).
A different text and story occurs as part of the Vindicta Salvatoris in BL MSS Royal 8.E.XVII (art. 33) and 9.A.XIV (art. 25b)
Most of f. 119r and all 119v blank.
Ends imperfectly. A number of tracts of English provenance begin along the same lines, see Bloomfield, 3827-31. Includes, f.133r, Versus (4) “Percuciens clericum ...”, Walther (1963) 21283a, cf. Initia 13976.
Here chapters 8, 9, 20, 28 and 50 are omitted, and the rest differently arranged: 1-7, 10-12, 58, 13-17, 30 (second version), 18-19, 21-27, 29-30, 78, 31-36, 79, 37-38, 40, 39, 41-42, 66, 64, 65, 43-49, 51, 80, 52, 81-85, 61, 56-57, 67, 59-60, 62, 73, 53-55, 68, 63, 77, 69-72 and 74-76. The Oxford form of excommunication (f.143 seq.) is annotated by Davenport “Stephani Langton in Concilio Oxoniae 1222”.
Council of Lambeth (1281), Canons 10, 1 and 3. Partly repeated in item (10), f.157v-163r below. f.149v-151v blank, except for pent-trials on 150v, 16th/17th century, and attribution by Davenport on 151v.
Council of Lambeth (1281), Canons 1-4, 6-8, 21 and 23. In canon 3 the English bapitismal formula runs “Iohan ich cristene ye in ye name of ye Fader and ye sone and ye holi gost vel aliter in lingua materna secundum vsum patrie”, and in French, f.159v. Partly repeating item (8).
Robert Winchelsey (?), archbishop of Canterbury, Decretum de ornamentis.
Pope Innocent IV. Distinguishing between light and grave harm by bodily attack. Not in Extravagantes.
Boniface of Savoy, archbishop of Canterbury, Statuta de decimis [1249 x 1269]. Among the various ascriptions in the copies mentioned none refers as here to Lambeth. Marginal note by Davenport doubting attribution to Winchelsey or Boniface, and publication at Lambeth or Merton, with reference to William Lyndwood's Provinciale.
Robert Bingham, bishop of Salisbury, Statuta synodalia [1238 x 1244] cap. 43.
Roger Niger, bishop of London, Statuta archidiaconalia [revised 1241 x c. 1270] caps 10 and 13-22. In cap. 20 the passage “Aliarum vero missarum ... plenarie percipiet” is omitted, f.169r
Legatine council of Ottobuono (London, 1268), Canon 16.
Council of London (1342), Canons 4-16 and 1-3.
Writ de casibus ecclesiasticis. This copy appears to be a substantially redrafted form of the well-known writ, attributable to June or July 1286. Graves (1928) analysed 100 copies, none with the negative transposed from “puniendo” as here.
Printed Graves, art. cit., p. 16; this copy falls in his Family B (p.17), but lacks, probably as a result of omission through homoteleuton, most of the clause concerning cash penalties, “Item si prelatus ... regia prohibicio si”. . When separate this article is commonly found associated with (18a), and as such may have been first issued with it, see Graves, p.14-15.
Legatine council of Ottobuono (London, 1268), Canons 7, 6, 8-9, 12-15, 17-19, 23, 27-28, 33-34 and 3-5.
Final sentence left unfinished. Presumably Pope John XXII 1316-34, though not in his Extravagantes. f.203v-207v ruled but blank; most of 206 cut off vertically.
Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis
dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at
various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including
catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss.
,
Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).
Cheney, C. R., English Synodalia of the thirteenth century , (Oxford: OUP, 1941)
Councils & synods with other documents relating to the English church, II: A.D. 1205-1313 , ed. Powicke, F.M. and Cheney, C.R. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964)
Graves, E. B., "Circumspecte agatis" English historical review 43 (1928), 1-20
Haureau, B., Initia operum scriptorum latinorum medii potissimum aevi ex codicibus manuscriptis et libris impressis alphabetice digessit (Turnhout: Brepols, 1973-74)
Walther, H., Proverbia sententiaeque latinitatis medii aevi. Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters in alphabetischer Anordnung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963-86)