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- 1200-1500 (The two texts are of 13-14C date, the flyleaf 14-15C.) (Creation)
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1 volume 15+ x 10 in., 208 ff; first text in double columns of 49 lines each, surrounded by gloss; second text in double columns of 63 lines vellum
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From Durham, with related inscription on 4th flyleaf and on f.1 "dunelm. E". Donated by Thomas Man, 1685.
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Decretals newly glossed; M. R. James's no. 1. Contains: (1) decretals of Gregory XI in five books, with a prologue; (2) a canon law tract in a different and later hand (from an Italian source, SC), with references to the former and incipit: Legitur in Ezechiele venter tuus comedet et viscera tua implebuntur. The first words of the gloss are missing ("but can be supplied from no. 6 [Q.A.6] - In huius libri principii quinque precipere sunt prenotanda " SC). At the beginning are two flyleaves from a later ms., containing two extracts from the Ottobian Constitutions and one from the Clementine.
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Listed in Catalogi Veteres librorum Dunelm.: Surtees Soc., 1838, p. 47, as: E. Decretales Nouae glo. 11. fo textus "et unitas in natura" (the opening words of f. 2 in this ms.).