CONSTITUTIONES ANGLICANAE

MRJ number
243
College classmark
N.5

Vellum, 7.25 x 4.75, ff. 103 + 4, 31 lines to a page.  15th cent., rather sloping hand.

On flyleaf: P. G. ? Peter Gunning.

Collation :  1 flyleaf, 110 – 510 612 78 810 1010 (+ 1): fragmentary flyleaves 3.

The flyleaves at each end are from a larger MS. in double columns, of 12th – 13th cent., and contain fragments of Lives of Saints (S. Nicholas and an English saint).

 

Contents:

      1.  Constitutiones Prouinciales Angliae     .               .               .               .         f.    1

De summa trinitate, etc.  Ignorancia sacerdotum, etc.  Nequis

    per ignoranciam se excuset.

Ends f. 66a: canonice compellendos.  Amen.

Expl. Const. prouinc.

Inc. Constitucio de Augmentacione Vicarie        .               .               .               66

Cum propter nimiam prorogacionem

      -personaliter apprehensi.

Expl. Const. nouella super augm. Vic. tempore bone memorie

    Henrici Chicheley olim Archiep. Cant. edita.

Const. d. Walteri Walden Cantuar. Arch. super inductione

    istorum festorum Dauid et Cedde, S. Wenefride, et com-

    memoracione S. Thome       .               .               .               .               .               67b

Splendor paterne glorie – laudabiliter obseruari.

Table of Constitutions in a hand of cent. xvi.

      2.  Inc. Constitutiones Othonis quondam sedis apostolice legati.         .               69(71)

Quoniam domum dei

       -decernimus fore priuatum.

      3.  Const. Othoboni (title and opening inserted late)               .               .               77(79)b

Text: Mandata dei

       -perlegi faciant diligenter.

Expl. Const. d. Octoboni edite London a. d. mill. ccmo lxviiio

    quod Walker.