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MS. Selden Supra 87

Summary Catalogue no.: 3475

Contents

Treatises and notes on Canon Law
1. (fol. 5)
Raymond of Penafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae and Summa de matrimonio

Here without title or author's name, except 'R'

The fourth book (at fol. 46v) is here attributed to Tancred of Bologna

One leaf is wanting at the end, the text ending at 'omnia bona mariti' in the last chapter

2. (fol. 54)
Raymond of Penafort, Decretales of Gregory IX
Rubric: Excepciones Canonum, Decretalium & Legum per se diuisim secundum Sumam fratris Reymundi in titulis suis

Imperfect at end

3. (fol. 131v)
Bartholomaeus Brixiensis, Canonical Rules
Rubric: Incipiunt Brocarda [this word erased] Damasi Vngari', correcta per Bartolomeum Brixiensem
4.
Varia juridica
(fol. 140)
A treatise on judicial procedure, with gloss
Incipit: Judicium est trinus actus trium personarum

A treatise on judicial procedure, with gloss

(foot of fol. 141v)
Bull of Pope Alexander III in favour of the prior of Guisborough (Jaffé-Wattenbach, Regesta Pont. Rom. no. 13934)
(fol. 150v)
Legal proceedings in a spiritual court
Incipit: Abbas certi monasterii cum maiori parte capituli accessit ad curiam Romanam

A long, unfinished narrative giving the legal arguments produced on behalf of an unnamed English monastery in proceedings in a spiritual court

(fol. 159)
Gloss on the Decretum Gratiani
Incipit: Di. 1. Lex est naturalis ut dicitur ius naturale
(fols. 181v, 192; compare fol. 3)
Miscellaneous canon law notes
(fol. 184)
Table of contents to the Corpus juris civilis
(fol. 193)
Summa magistri Johannis Yspani Compostelani super titulis Decretalium
Incipit: Habuimus de quodam la[s]ciuo uicio clericorum

Extract, covering Book V, Title XXV to the end

(fol. 196v)
De judiciis
Rubric: De judiciis uel causis et eorum effectu
(fol. 200)
Bernardus Papiensis, Breviarium extravagantium
Incipit: In huius libri principio quinque sunt precipue prouocanda

Portions of the text, starting with the prologue I.i.1, and (fol. 202) I.ii.10-iii.39

Ends unfinished

Fols 207v–209r
Here suen foure full notable Prologis upon the Sauter [Psalter]
Incipit: Whane it is known all the prophetes to haue spoken

Despite the title, there is only one prologue, that of the Wycliffite translation

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 211 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 7.375 × 6 in.

Layout

2 cols

Decoration

Coloured capitals

History

Origin: 13th century, late ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

May have belonged to Guisborough (see above for the Bull of Pope Alexander III on fol. 141v)

'Thomas Kerdiff', 16th century (fols 4, 209v)

John Selden, 1584–1654

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1659

Record Sources

Description adapted (September 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 649

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-22: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)