| Ref No | MS 193 |
| Alt Ref No | B. 4. 6 |
| Title | Ivo Carnotensis, Decretum, abbrev. |
| Description | F.1 has 'De speculo Augustini / quod bonus puer' in a 15th-cent. hand, and some illegible words [4s 21d in Hebrew?] in the top outer corner. On f.1v 'Liber sancte Marie Linc", in the usual large early 13th-cent. textura, on a ruled line. Further down is a table of contents in a 15th-cent. anglicana hand which may be that of Peter Partrich (see MS 72). Above this two lines of writing have been erased. Ultra-violet light reveals 'speculum' and 'Aug', so the original text was probably a title or description of the contents. Further down again is 'D. 2. Decretor: Collectio, et Canon: Concil: Nicaen:' in the usual 17th-cent. Lincoln hand.
1. Ivo of Chartres, Decretum, modified. Ff.2-205. ‘(f.2rv table of contents) Quid in prima parte libri huius contineatur. Prima pars continet de fide et sacramento fidei . . . (Pars xvii) de fide, caritate et spe. De speculo Augustini. Quis ignorat in scripturis sanctis … Vt nullus laicus ad quemlibet gradum ecclesiasticum repente promoueatur nisi post mutatum habitum secularem diuturna conuersatione inter clericos fuerit comprobatus.' PL 161. 59-1022. The abbreviated text of Ivo is followed (f.159) by an unnumbered section of papal decrees, Sylvester - Nicholas II's Roman synod of 1059, extracted from the Collectio Lanfranci (cf. MS 161). See PUE II. i, p.74. Partes begin on a new page; ff.95v-96v, 122v blank. At the head of f.2 is 'D 2' in Garvey's hand.
2. Additions only slightly later than the main text. Ff.205v-210. F.210v blank. (a) f.205v 'Anno ab incarnatione Domini m.c.lxiii. Alexander episcopus … dilecto suo Ricardo de Anesti … ; Cum controuersia que inter te et Adelitiam ac Mabiliam filiam eius super successione Willelmi auunculi tui uertebatur … secundum uero nullum fuisse decernimus. Vale.' The hearing is committed to Hilary bishop of Chichester and I. (but must be Laurence) abbot of Westminster. PUE II. ii, no. 108; printed by L. Voss, Heinrich von Blois (Berlin, 1932), pp.167-168, no.vii(b), from this MS. (b) ff..206-207v Canons of the Council of Reims, 1148: 'Qui ab episcopis suis anathematis sentencia condempnantur … diuina celebrari officia interdicimus' (Mansi XXI, pp.713-718). (c) f.207v 'T(heodoro) Dei gratia Cantuarie archiepiscopo, tocius Anglie primati, apostolice sedis legato, H(enricus) eadem gratia Wintonie ecclesie minister salutem. Nouerit discretio uestra quod super causa que coram me agitata fuit de matrimonio inter Willelmum de Saccauilla et filiam de.Tresgod contracto… debito fine terminare.' Printed Voss, pp.166-167 and n., no.VII(a), except for the inserted Jaffé-Loewenfeld no.8274. On (a) and (c) see P.M. Barnes, 'The Anstey Case', in A Medieval Miscellany for D.M. Stenton (London, Pipe Roll Soc., 1962), pp.1-24. (d) f.208rv 6 canons, with omitted rubrics in the margin (e.g. 'ex penitenciali Bede'): '[S]i quis per ebrietatem uel uoracitatem eucharistiam euomuerit … quem piam sumere fecerit Deo gratias sed paucorum.' Incl. Ivo, Panorm. I. 154-156. F.209 blank. (e) ff. 209v-210 Peace of God and form of the oath: '[D]ecreuit sancta sinodus ut a lxx(ma) usque ad octabam pasce … super sancta euangelia iurare presumat' (Reims 1119; Mansi XXI, pp.236-237). '[D]e forma uero fidelitatis qui quisque debeat domino uel equo sic inuenitur in epistola Philiberti episcopi: [D]e forma fidelitatis aliquid scribere monitus … deprehensus fuerit perfidus et periurus'. Fulbert, Ep. 51 (ed. Behrends, pp.90-92 line 15), as in Ivo, Panorm. VIII. 122 (PL 161. 1334B-C. '[I]taque ex premissis apparet mendacium nec ex simplici sermone debet proferri… Vnde Ambrosius ait in sermone habito in dominica de Abraam: [C]auete fratres mendatium, quia omnes qui amant mendatium … et contraria huic ordini operari. Item Ieronimus: [Q]uociens uero loquimur aut in tempore oportuno … reddituri sumus rationem in die iudicii. Iuramentum uero clericus laico purgare non debet. [V]nde in Remensi concilio legitur [N]ullus ecclesiastico ordine cuiquam laico quicquam supra sacramenta … aut corrigatur aut expurgetur.' I cannot identify this council or canon. |
| Author | Ivo of Chartres |
| Date | 12th century |
| Physical Description | Binding: Recent; John Gray & Son Ltd; grey paper sides, reversed calf spine. Three paper leaves at each end. Lincoln Cathedral bookplate inside the front cover. On the spine, gilt: DECRETVM IVONIS CARNOT: ABBREV: / 193 / B. 4. 6. A faint mark from a chain-staple at the foot of f.1.
Construction: 210 parchment leaves, the upper and outer edges trimmed. 270 x 175 (195 x 115) mm., pencil-ruled in 32 long lines. Pricked in the outer margins only.
Hands: Art. 1 mainly in a rather informal English book-hand, copying page-for-page, occasionally using Tironian et and never the cedilla. The scribe rubricated, and provides running titles on ff.3v-95, 151-158v. A second hand, using the cedilla, writes ff.97-108 line 8. Items (a)-(e) of art.2 are each in a separate hand, all contemporary with the main ones.
Decoration: (1) Sketches in the lower margins, outlined in red or ink of text, sometimes tinted in red and green: f.59 a building of two rooms with a half-length ?female figure in each (illustrating the canon 'Vt sacrilegi diiudicentur qui se sacris feminis miscuerunt'); f.115v a kneeling man in a robe and conical hat, holding an axe, attacked by a lion; f.120v a kneeling robed clerk, with a speech-label 'beatus uir' (illustrating the penance prescribed in the adjacent text: ' … psalmos mille ducentos flexis genibus decantet'); f.124 (to illustrate the text 'Ego enim sum Dominus qui saluum facio te … ') standing, nimbed Christ takes an old, stooping man by the hand; f.138 (illustrating the text 'furem noctu deprehensum occidere permittit') a bearded giant with uplifted sword grasps a smaller, clean-shaven man by the hair; f.149v a half-length figure in an elaborate headdress, spitting; f.168 seated bearded man pointing at the text above ('Incerta nemo unquam pontificum iudicare presumat'). (2) Historiated initials: f.27v green D enclosing a red lion; f.159 T outlined in ink of text, formed of a man blowing two outsize horns, flanked by two small boys, on a red and green ground, accompanied by three lines of display-script filled with the two colours; (3) Red, green and buff arabesqued initials; (4) Plain initials in the same colours; (5) Pen-and-ink sketches to mark runovers of text in the lower marg.: ff.39v (serpent's head), 153 (lion's head), 190 (lion). |
| Repository | Lincoln Cathedral Library |
| Language | Latin |
| Collation | A singleton, 1¹²(1-2 canc.), 2-11¹², 12-13¹⁰, 14⁶(4 canc.; + 2 after 6), 15-16¹⁰, 17-18¹², 19-20⁴. Quires 1-13 numbered, in red roman numerals, at the foot of the last verso and signed 'emendatus est' in a hand contemporary with the main text. Quires 15 and 16 are also numbered, in ordinary ink. |
| Notes | Sec. fol. pertundere. History: Cat. vet. 38 ('Speculum Augustini'); Cat. 46 ('Liber qui dicitur Speculum Augustini'); Wren Cat. D. 2; Garvey D 5. 2; Apthorp, p.280; Woolley, pp.139-140. |