Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton.

  • Worcester Cathedral Library
Date:
1906
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Credit: Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tian’s ‘ Decretum.’ The title ‘Brocarda1’ (see F. 7, 2) is derived from Burchardus, Bp. of Worms, and a great canonist, who died 1026. He was the author of a ‘ Decretum,’ one of the more important predecessors of Gratian’s work. (Rashdall, i. 129.) In original binding, somewhat worm-eaten. In small hand of 13th cent. First words of each treatise large, in blue and red. Rubricated. Annotated throughout. Good preservation. F. 15. Tabula iuris canonici et ciuilis edita et completa per fratrem Iohannem de Saxonia ordinis fratrum minorum doctorem iuris utriusque. No cover. Initials in red and blue. Not very good. xiv cent. F. 16. Sermones de Valle Scholarium. Inc. ‘ Letabor ego super eloquia tua.’ Expl. f. 199. ‘ Qui nunc regnat per omnia secula seculorum Amen.’ A collection of sermons for Saints’ days throughout the year, beginning with All Saints and ending with SS. Simon and Jude, composed, as it would appear from the title, in the monastery of Vallis Scholarium. Rebound in dark red skin. Initials in red and blue. Tabula at beginning. Vallis scholarium (close to Chaumont, dioc. of Langres) was an offshoot of the Cistercian Order. Annotated throughout in two hands. xiv cent. F. 17. 1. Gaufridus super titulis decretalium. 2. Rainfredi summa de iure canonico. This manuscript has been missing from the library for many years, unless, as may possibly be the case, it has been bound up in F. 100, and its separate existence forgotten. F. 18. Liber metaphysice cum glossa (Aristotelis). Inc. * Consideratio quidem in veritate.’ Expl. (Glossa.) ‘ secundum quod est agens inotum et finis.’ This seems to be a later transcript of the first part of F- 4. No cover. Inside first leaf:— ‘ Caucio magistri Iohannis de Wyly2 exposita in cista Comitisse de Warwyk pro decern solidis in vigilia sancti Ambrosii anno domini M.ccc tricesimo tertio teste Magistro Willelmo de Walemes’ [or Walemea ?]. 1 Rashdall (i. 220) quotes Sarti’s explanation of brocardica, as they were otherwise called, as *' generales regulae quasi loci communes.’ This agrees with the title generalia here. 2 A person of this name was rector of Mickleton in Gloucestershire about 1348.