| LOCATION | Vaticano, BAV, Vat. |
| MANUSCRIPT | Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 12571 |
| ITEM No. 1 | Constitutiones extravagantes |
Constitutiones extravagantes
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Constitutiones extravagantes diversorum pontificum. Text 206 x 133 mm. Watermark: Briquet 7834, 3391. Ink gray, at times darker or even black. Pink rubrics. No coloured initials. Reclamants almost invisible in the binding. There precede 39 sheets. Fol. Ir serves as a title page: 'Anonymi collectio decretalium antiquorum pontificum, additis sub iisdem titulis aliis uariis posteriorum pontificum decretis usque ad Paulum II inclusiue, cum nonnullis notis marginalibus.' Additional notes on this page are discussed by Singer in the article cited below.
Fol. Iv-IIv: blank Fol. IIIr: Table of contents, listing the five constitutions in the manuscript concerning the Rota.
Fol. IIIv-VIIIv: blank.
Fol. IXr-XIXv: alphabetical index of decrees in this manuscript with their folio numbers; the title and issuing pope are also listed.
Fol. XXr-XXXVIIIv: Index of decrees by titles with folio numbers and name of issuing pope.
Fol. XXXIXr-v: blank.
Fol. 4v-9v, 158v, 451v are blank. The collection is divided into five books and subdivided into titles. Some titles have no entries; see, for example, two titles given on fol. 493v, De baptismo et eius effectu, and De presbitero nondum baptizato. A summary is sometimes given as part of the rubric preceding a decree; see, for example, the first entry cited above. Most of the entries are papal letters, but there are also some decrees of the ecumenical councils of Constance and Florence. The earliest entries are two letters of Gregory VII. On the first, 'Vobis commissa negotia' (fol. 122v-123r), see Jaffé, Regesta, no. 5203. The second, 'Propter egregiam et specialem' (fol. 592v), is edited in Leo Santifaller, Quellen und Forschungen zum Urkunden- und Kanzleiwesen Papst Gregors VII, Pt. 1: Quellen: Urkunden. Regesten. Facsimilia (Studi e testi 190, Vatican City 1957), No. 211 pp. 250-51. The latest entries in the manuscript are thirteen letters of Paul II, one of which, Ad Romani pontificis (fol. 199v-201r), was included in the Extravagantes communes (3.2.14). Most of the entries date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. An exact breakdown of these letters cannot be given since some letters are not attributed to any author and others are wrongly attributed. Yet the following breakdown may be of use in gauging the general character of the collection.
Gregorius VII - 2 texts.
Urbanus II - 1 texts.
Gregorius IX - 1 texts.
Innocentius IV - 3 texts.
Alexander IV - 28 texts.
Urbanus IV - 2 texts.
Clemens IV - 3 texts.
Innocentius V - 1 texts.
Nicolaus III - 1 texts.
Martinus IV - 1 texts.
Nicolaus IV - 3 texts.
Celestinus V - 1 texts.
Bonifatius VIII - 33 texts.
Benedictus XI - 7 texts.
Clemens V - 11 texts.
Johannes XXII - 102 texts.
Benedictus XII - 31 texts.
Clemens VI - 32 texts.
Innocentius VI - 9 texts.
Urbanus V - 16 texts.
Gregorius VI - 17 texts.
Urbanus VI - 14 texts.
Bonifatius IX - 12 texts.
Innocentius VII - 3 texts.
Gregorius XII - 1 texts.
[Benedictus XIII] - 1 texts.
[Alexander V] - 1 texts.
[Johannes XXIII] - 3 texts.
Concilium Constantiense - 26 texts.
Martinus IV - 26 texts.
Eugenius IV - 29 texts.
Concilium Florentinum - 1 texts.
Nicolaus V - 66 texts.
Calixtus III - 10 texts.
Pius II - 14 texts.
Paulus II - 13 texts.
Although the collection consists primarily of papal letters and conciliar decrees, other materials are included. See, for example, the title De iure iurando in Book II (fol. 100r-133v) which includes some oaths of loyalty to the popes, sworn by emperors, kings, and members of the papal household. The same title also includesthe forged Professio fidei attributed to Boniface VIII (fol. 100r-101r, also included in MS Vaticano, Arch. S. Pietro A. 38) and the oath sworn by Henry II concerning the death of Thomas Becket (fol. 114r-v). For example, the will of Ricardus de Aquila Comes Fundanus, bequeathing certain property to the Roman Church (dated 31 January 1213) is entered in the collection as the first capitulum in the title De testamentis et ultimis voluntatibus, in Book III (fol. 226v-227v).
Nearly every entry has one or more marginal glosses. Some of these were entered by the main scribe of the manuscript, but others penned by different hands, dating from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. All are not signed. Some glosses provide cross-references to the Extravagantes Johannis XXII or the Extravagantes communes. Examples of the various glossing hands can be seen on fol. 1r, 13v, 42r, 174v, 253v, and 173r. Commentators cited in these glosses:
Alvarus de Planctu Ecclesie (fol. 10v); Archi. (= Guido de Baisio, fol. 44r, etc.), Augustinus de Ancona (fol. 10v), Egidius de Bellamere (fol. 1r), Guil. de mon. lau. (Guilielmus de Montelauduno, fol. 1r, 159v, 161r, etc.), Inno. (= Innocentius IV papa, fol. 10v, 44r), Hosti. = Hostiensis cardinalis (Henricus de Segusio, fol. 44r, 126r); Jo. an. (= Johannes Andreae, fol. 10v, 44r, 135r, 159r, etc.), Jo. de lig. (Johannes de Lignano, fol. 44r), Jo. mo. (= Johannes Monachus, fol. 1r, 37v, 38r, 39r, etc.), Lap. (= Lapus de Castiglione senior, fol. 44r, 45v, 483v), Oldra. (= Oldradus de Ponte, fol. 10v, 44r, 595v, etc.), Pau. (= Paulus de Liazariis? - fol. 44r), Zencil. (= Jesselin de Cassagnes, fol. 1r, 159v, 313r, etc.), furthermore decis. Ro. (= decisiones Rotae, fol. 44r, 45v).
Several classical authors are also cited in the glosses: Aulus Gellius (fol. 1r, 133v, 139r, etc.), Iuvenalis (fol. 139r, 583r), Plato (fol. 139r), Seneca (fol. 139r), Tulius (= Cicero, fol. 1r, 134r, 582r), Valerius Maximus (fol. 1r)
No. of pages: Fol. 1r-769v
Rubric: De summa trinitate et fide catholica. Reductio regis et regni Russie ad fidem. Magnifico uiro Vrosio regi Russie illustri gratiam in presenti que perducat ad gloriam in futuro. Clemens quintus
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