Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 412

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 412
    • CCCC MS 412
    • MS 412
    • Parker Library MS 412
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin, English
  • Author : Pseudo-Augustinus Hipponensis
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a pretty hand of Italian aspect
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 4 + 77 + 4
  • Dimensions :
    • 132 x 204
  • Codicological details :
    • 40 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-77 + v-viii + c-d
    • a(4), 1(8)-10(8) (wants 6-8), b(4).

Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 412 contains not Giles of Rome OESA's De regimine principum but an anonymous work in the same genre of guidance on royal governance, the Liber de informatione principum, written between 1297 and 1314, perhaps for the sons of Philip the Fair. It seems at least plausible. however, that Parker was just as interested in the late fifteenth-century copy of the Articuli cleri (1316) that is attached to the beginning of the volume and which deals with the question of royal and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. This is followed by a series of notes bearing the name Edmund Poplay, who seems to have been confirmed as a bachelor of canon law at Cambridge University in 1489, though no contemporary reference to him is known in the university Grace Books. Apart from this, there is no information as to the manuscript's provenance.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais


    1r-77r - Liber de informatione principum

    rubric : (1r) Incipit liber de administracione principum

    Note : (Aegidii Romani)

    incipit : (1r) Regnabit rex et sapiens erit et faciet iudicium

    explicit : (1r) ordine quo supra sunt proposita prosequemur

    incipit : (1r) Prima pars huius tractatus habet capitula xxxiij

    Note : Text

    incipit : (1v) Circa primum considerandum est primo dignitas

    Note : (29r) Pars II

    Note : (54v) Pars III

    Note : (65r) Pars IV

    Note : Ending

    explicit : (77r) largiri dignetur misericors deus qui in trinitate perfecta viuit et regnat per infinita seculorum secula. Amen


    Intervenants :

    pseudo-Augustine - author

    77r-77r - pseudo-Augustine, De XII abusiuis saeculi (De duodecim abusionum gradibus, excerpt)

    rubric : (77r) Que pertineant ad bonum principem ostendit cyprianus in libro de xii abusionibus seculi hiis verbis

    incipit : (77r) Iusticia regis est neminem iniuste

    explicit : (77v) indigna est dei amore

    rubric : (77v) Finis

    Note : Three verses

    incipit : (77r) Tres sunt stulticie maiores omnibus audiTantum mentiri tot dare totque minariUt nil credaris. nil habeas nil metuaris

Participant

Provenance

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  • On f. 1v in large black letters the name William Porter. This name is also in Trinity MS. B. 16. 3. William Porter occurs in Grace Book C as B.A. 1537-8, M.A. 1540-1 (H. P. S.) On ff. iir-ivv in a hand of cent. xv late: Casus in quibus iudex ecclesiasticus potest cognoscere regea prohibicione non obstante concessi per regis magnam cartam. Edwardus dei gratia, etc....Sciatis quod cum dudum temporibus progenitorum nostrorum. Ending f. iiiv: teste me ipso apud Eborac. xxiii die mens. nouembr. ano regni nostri xiiio. litera domini regis iusticiariis directa supra ponitur infra constituciones prouinciales de foro competenti C. Circumspecte agatis in quo C. continentur omnes casus in quibus, etc. - non obstante. Melius tamen est quod non faciat nisi regiam consultacionem optineat. Edmundus poplay. Supplicat: Supplicat venerabili, etc. Edmundus poplay in jure canonico Baccallarius quatenus studia quindecim annorum que habuit in hac uniuersitate in facultate arcium et in juribus ciuili et canonico sibi sufficiant ad hunc effectum ut admittatur ad incipiendum in jure canonico ita quod soluat markam (?). Hec gracia concessa et confirmata est a. d. millmo cccco lxxxxix mens. Jun. xiimo condicio talis est quod soluat uniuersitati xls. A Popley occurs as Bachelor of Canon Law in 1524-5, Grace Book B, part II, p. 123. In Grace Book A, p. 42 under 1463-4, is 'receptum de popy quia non incepit in iure canonico xls.' But both dates seem unsuitable.

Notes

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  • Additions: On a flyleaf (f. vr) is a late xvth cent. receipt in English

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