Manuscripta juridica

Lectura Decretalium: (X.3.1.1 - X.3.24.6) . Lecture notes, entirely in Latin. They constitute an ample continuous commentary. They refer to text and gloss of Corpus iuris canonici and Corpus iuris civilis, and to medieval commentators: Inno(centius IV papa) (13th c.), Jo(hannes) An(dreae) (14th c., fol. 2v), Bal(dus de Ubaldis) (14th c., X.3.23.4 de solutionibus, cap. Is qui), Ja(cobus) de Ra(vanis) (13th c., still X.3.23.4), Hostiensis (13th c., frequent, fol. 1v and still X.3.23.4), Fran(ciscus) (fol. 2r), Fran(ciscus) Virsellen (fol. 2v) . The latter may be a garbled reference to Franciscus Vercellensis, 13th century, copied from commentary by Joannes Andreae who cites this author frequently. I cannot exclude, however, that another person is meant. "Virsellen” could be Wuerselen, a German city near Aachen, at the border to the Netherlands.

Furthermore, the student frequently mentions a "do. Flo.” = dominus Florianus. I deem that this was the professor who taught the course - because no other jurist is adressed as "dominus” in these student notes, and no other jurist "Florianus” was famous enough in those times to be referred to without an accompanying second name. Therefore this "Florianus” must be a person whom the student knew particularly well. A professor Florianus Dolfi taught canon law around 1503 at the then famous university of Siena (Johann Friedrich Schulte, Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts, vol. 2, Stuttgart 1877, p. 355). It must be kept in mind, however, that there may have been more than just this one "Florianus”, teaching canon law.

No foliation. Written by only one scribe in hasty handwriting - much hastier than MS 199 part 2, MS 200 and the few hastily written leaves in MS 201. The scribe applied normal continental European handwriting without specific Scottish traits, but the fact that the MS came to the library of King's College, Aberdeen, at an early date makes it probable that these lecture notes were taken by a Scot who studied on the European continent. Large coloured initial I at the beginning, in red and black. Red paragraph signs on fol. 1r, but thereafter ceasing.

The Library's inventory of MSS attributes the present MS to the beginning of the 16th century, but I have argued in my description of MS 199 that the present MS and 199 and 200 belong together and originated, in all likelyhood, in the fifteenth century.

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Author(s):

• Florianus

No. of pages: (item 1)

Rubric: Incipit liber tercius Decretalium. Rubrica de vita et honestate clericorum.

Incipit:

• Rubrica ista, ymmo et totus iste liber, potest continuari ad precedentem in hunc modum: Quia, ut supra dictum est in prohemio huius compilacionis in (...) in primo libro istius tocius volumine et nove compilacionis tractatum est de p(rivileg?)iis prelatorum et eorum officiis, et in secundo de exerciciis per(son)arum et hominum(?) in iudicio, restat nunc videre de exerciciis hominum extraiudicialibus, sive extra iudicium.

  [Text breaks off in the commentary to X.3.24.6 Cum dilecti:] in ecclesiam, ut habetur in lege finali C. de sacro (C.1.2.23).