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1316 edition of the general constitutions of the Order of St Francis of Assisi, 14th century
Part
Identifier: MS 151/ff. 90r-95v
Contents
Ff. 90r-95v contains a section of the general constitutions, or 'Rule', of the Friars Minor (also known as the Order of Saint Francis of Assisi), taken from the 1316 version. Ff. 61-88 of MS 151 also contain this 1316 text. This copy, on ff. 90-95 contains only ten of the twelve chapters of the constitutions, while the copy on the earlier folios (ff. 61-88) has twelve chapters.The text begins on f. 90r with the words In nomine domini Amen. Anno ejusdem...
Dates:
14th century
A collection of canonical maxims from Boniface VIII's De Regulis Iuris, mid/late 14th-early 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 182/f. 25r-v
Scope and Contents
A collection of 56 legal maxims in latin over two pages, from the book of canonical law De Regulis Iuris, promulgated in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII. It starts with rule 33, 'Mutare consilium quis non potest in alterius detrimentum' ('No one can change his mind (intention) at the expense of another'), and ends with rule 88, 'Certum est quod is committit in legem, qui legis verba complectens, contra...
Dates:
mid/late 14th-early 15th century
A letter from Bartolomeus Marcellus to 'Domino A. episcopo', dated 1480, 15 November 1480
Part
Identifier: MS 175/ff. 186r-v
Contents
Amongst the recipes against plague at the end of MS 175 there is a letter from Bartholomeus Marcellus, dated 15 November 1480: Ex Exio xv Novembris 1480 E.V.R.D. The name of the addressee has been scratched out on the second line, and so all that is visible is In christo patri et domino: Domino A. Episcopo before the erased name. Writing The hand appears to be the same (sixth...
Dates:
15 November 1480
A medical compendium of "master Salebenus" [incomplete] , 13th century
Part
Identifier: MS 167/ff. 24r-33v
Contents
The text included on ff. 24-33 begins imperfectly. It has no identifying title or incipit, and the first line on f. 24r starts with the words ...vita apponantur est praefatis... It ends on f. 33v with praecedentium informentur. Explicit liber compendii magistri salebeni Writing ff. 24-33 are in a second thirteenth-century hand, distinguishable from the hand of the preceding...
Dates:
13th century
A note on the origin of the Stewart family, 1510
Part
Identifier: MS 186/ f. 343r
Contents
In the second half of the second column on f. 343r, there is a note on the origins of the Stewart royal family. The text begins with Notandum quod barbarius ponit le Stewartis venisse de Wallia et originem habuisse de fleance...
Dates:
1510
A precept of sasine of written under the seal of Andrew, Lord Vchiltre and lord of the barony of Trabok, narrating that his two-merk lands of the 'Burne' had been sold to James Chalmer of Gaitgirth and Annabella Cunynghame, 5th July 1539
Item
Identifier: La.V/382
Scope and Contents
Instrument narrating that, in presence of the notary and witnesses, George Chalmer, bailie in that part of a noble lord, Andrew, Lord Vchiltre and lord of the barony of Trabok, presented to the notary, to be read, a precept of sasine, written on parchment, under the seal and manual subscription of the said lord; which precept is engrossed, directed to George Chalmer and James Chalmer, as bailies, narrating that the said lord had sold to James Chalmer of Gaitgirth and Annabella Cunynghame,...
Dates:
5th July 1539
A tabula, c 1455
Part
Identifier: MS 138/ff. 1v-2r
Contents
A tabula, contained on ff.1v-2r in MS 138, begins with the words Hic libellus est Carthusiensium prope Erffordiam.
Dates:
c 1455
A text by Master Alberto de' Zancari, 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 175/ff. 173v-182v
Contents
Following the text De passione animi, the Ad idem title of this text (meaning 'the same) seemingly indicates that this work also deals with hemorrhoids. Alberto de' Zancari (also known as Albertus Bononiensis) was a fourteenth-century teacher and physician from Bologna. His father was also a physician, and Alberto studied medicine at the University of Bologna, graduating as Master in 1326. De' Zancari composed his own text on...
Dates:
15th century
A treatise of charters, and exceptions against them, 1496
part
Identifier: MS 208/ff. 172v-174r
Contents
This section contains a treatise of charters, and exceptions against them. The treatise is titled Compositio Carte and begins on f. 172v and the exceptions are titled Obstacula et exceptiones contra Cartas and begin on f. 173r. This section ends on f. 174r with the words de secta hundredi qui dicitur vappentake. Writing This section is written...
Dates:
1496
Abbreviated Decretum Gratiani, by Gratian, early 14th century
Part
Identifier: MS 139/ ff. 1r-7v
Contents
MS 139 contains an abbreviated version of a work on canon law by the mid-12th century canon lawer and teacher, Gratian. Gratian's original work, a text that organised and compiled various sources and teachings on canonical law, was completed in a second version in the 1150s, a decade after the work first appeared. Due to its practical use for teaching on canon law, this second version of Gratian's work became widely copied and read in the medieval period, and is known as the 'Decretum...
Dates:
early 14th century