| Ref No | MS 3 |
| Alt Ref No | A. 1. 15 |
| Title | Gregorii Decretales et Innocentii Novellae glo.; Novellae Innocentii IV with the gloss of Bernardus Compostellanus iunior |
| Description | F.1 once a pastedown, blank. At the head of f.1v, 2 cols of notes on the contents and verses (mutil., but a paragraph beg. Tercia maiorem Iacobum sanctumque Iohannem) in a small 14th-cent. hand.
I.
F.2 table of contents to art.1 in 4 cols, in a 15th-cent. anglicana hand. Ff.2v-4 blank. Decretales Gregorii IX with the gloss of Bernard de Botone of Parma Ff.4v-192v. (Text, beg. f.5) Gregorius [illegible] & ut pro spiritualibus pactione quas homagium compellatur; (Glo.) In huius libri principio & uel de facto inducit scilicet de pactis pactiones. Explicit apparatus Decretalium. F.4v filled with 2 cols of gloss omitted from f.5. Von Schulte II, p.115 [15.1].
II.
2. Novellae Innocentii IV with the gloss of Bernardus Compostellanus iunior Ff.193-204v. (Text) Innocencius episcopus . . . dilectis filiis uel uniuersitati magistrorum et scolarium Parisiensi salutem . . . ; Cum nuper in concilio Lugdunensi seu uiribus pecunii derogari; (Glo.) [Cum] in multis etc. Infinitas. Nota quod infinitas in multis articulis reprobatur . . . quare non deberet. Valete b’. Von Schulte II, p.119 [16. 3]. Passages of nonsense in English serve as line-fillers at the foot of a column or in the lower margins: f.66 lower marg. ‘Nota. Cat lep over dich. and hund lep after. bo bocca. shrewe. boxeneno’; f.77 lower marg. ‘blou mole in the hole. al so hot al so hu shyot al so werm. In thy berm. thar yu sith a doun ther wyxt the hoyngon’; f.84 ‘Cnaue wolte haue a wastel to thedmer. drinc tharto. so wel thou the’; f.92 ‘Nou to the ringe. Wale we synge. cus myn hers gode felaghe’; f.160 ‘Welcome gode felaghe syheame the aue. drith in thi tey’. Some notes to the text in a cursive hand, probably English, and others in a 15th-cent. anglicana hand (including verses, e.g. f.135v ‘Vix diuersorum poterit cautela cecorum tanta ministrare quod eos prosit sacrare’). |
| Author | Gregory I |
| Date | 14th century |
| Physical Description | Binding: Standard Lincoln early 20th-cent. Paper labels on the spine: MS GREGORII DECRETALE / 3 / A 1. 15. Three paper leaves at each end. Lincoln Cathedral bookplate inside the front cover. F.1 has marks of 3 clasps down the foredge, and two rust-marks near the spine at head and foot. ¶
Construction: 204 parchment leaves, damaged by damp, especially at the lower corners. 395 x 250 mm., pencil-ruled in 2 cols with 42 lines of text (195 x 120 mm.) surrounded by a varying number of lines of gloss which shorten progressively towards the foot of the page. ¶
Hands: The text of I is in a hand which may be French; the text of II is in an Italian hand. The gloss throughout is in an English hand, responsible for the line-fillers.
Decoration: I: (1) Historiated initial Gs in Italian style, framed on a square ground, in blue, orange, pink, burgundy and gold, with red and blue display-script, open each book: ff.5 (damaged by damp), 55v (?seated pope dictating to a secretary), 99v (group of tonsured clerks at altar), 143 (lady and husband on horseback), 156 (seated noble hearing ?slander from a supplicant). (2) The text has red or blue initials, flourished in the other colour (incipit) or plain (titulus). (3) Rubrics, red or blue paraphs, grotesques in ink of text. Unfilled spaces for initials to the lemmata in the gloss. F.79 a block of gloss beneath the text framed, with an ink drawing of a seal attached. II: The text has blue offset initials flourished in red. |
| Repository | Lincoln Cathedral Library |
| Language | Latin |
| Collation | A⁴ (? – hard to collate), 1-12⁸, 13¹⁰, 14-17⁸, 18-20¹⁰, 21⁸, 22¹² / 23¹². Catchwords (mostly trimmed off) refer to the text not the gloss. |
| Notes | Sec. fol. (f.6) fidei. hoc dicit (gloss); omnino (text). At the foot of f.36v, in a faint 14th-cent. cursive hand, legible under ultra-violet light: Willelmus Dalton. ipse est honus prius in Anglia, doubtless referring to the Dalton who was canon of Lincoln 1343-1367 (Fasti II, pp..44, 65, 70), donor of three books to Oriel College Oxford, an important royal official and notable pluralist (BRUO 538-539). F.204v Iste liber constat Thome Salysbury, in a 15th-cent. anglicana hand, on top of an identical note in plummet. Below is a note on canon law in the same or a similar hand. Salisbury was canon of Lincoln from 1447 until his death in 1460 (Fasti II, pp. 17, 34, 73). MSS 29 + 136, 63 and 198, also owned by Salisbury, contain similar ex libris notes. Unidentifiable in Wren Cat.; Garvey C 2. 3; Apthorp, p.280; Woolley, p.2. |