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On the back of the volume is the usual modern label, injured: ‘C. iii. See. A. i. ii. iii. T. xx8 (sic),’ which is intended to repeat the usual modern description by Bissaiga on a flyleaf, viz. ‘Calixti iii. Secret. Lib. x. Anno i. ii. iii. Tom. xxviii.’ Inside the volume is the usual front half of the original sheepskin binding, with the contemporary description ‘Bullarum domini Jo. Cosida Secretarii’ and notes, e.g. ‘Visa B.’, ‘Secret(c)’ ‘Vidit Ph.’, etc. The ‘Rubricelle’ are headed ‘Sequuntur Rubricelle bullarum domini Calisti pape tercii, apud Cosidam Secretarium registratarum,’ above which is ‘Cosida,’ and in the margin ‘liber 28.’ |
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A blank space is left for the day of the month. |
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peticio continebat quod cum olim ipse, dum in diaconatus ordine co[n]stitutus erat, cum quodam socio suo solatii causa per quosdam campos juxta certos dumos (written above ‘duomos,’ which is cancelled) seu cepes (rectius sepes) ambularet, ac ipse socius casualiter quandam spinam tetigisset, spina ipsa retrocedens eundem Johannem in oculo sinistro percussit, ex quo ipse Johannes dicti oculi lumine extune penitus orbatus remansit. |
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propter quam celebrando divina scandalum in populo generari posset. |
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si per aspectionem dicti oculi tibi constiterit modicam in eodem oculo difformitatem esse adeo ut exinde in populo scandalum minime valcat generari … |
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cui cura per vicarium ecclesie pro tempore existentem regi solita imminet animarum. |
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et exercicio cure animarum attentius inte[n]dere possit. |
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Datum Rome … anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo sexto [blank space] pontificatus nostri anno secundo. In the blank space thus left for the day of the month, which ought to have been added in the Roman style, a different hand from that of the text has inserted ‘erat addenda data currens xxvi. Octobris.’ Fastened down with patches of sealing wax in the margin of this page is a narrow strip of paper with: Officium capellanatus honoris pro presbytero Eboracensis diocesis in Anglia cum privilegiis etc. aliorum capellanorum honoris sedis apostolice. Habet taxam.’ These attached strips are a feature of this volume. Many of them have become loose and have disappeared. |
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i.e. the usual subscription in the margin is wanting. |
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Similarly attached to this page by a patch of sealing-wax is a similar strip of paper, with: Presbyter Eboracensis diocesis in Anglia recipitur in capellanum honoris n(ostre) s(anctita)tis cum privilegiis etc. aliorum capellanorum honoris. Habet taxam. |
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tu eundem Robertum, super hoc petendo inter vos divorcium quo ad thorum et mutuam cohabitacionem fieri, sibique (rectius tibique) dotem tuam restitui, coram Edmundo … traxisti in causam. |
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Here in the left margin, in place of the usual ‘Jo. Cosida,’ is a small ‘o,’ the meaning of which is not obvious. It sometimes occurs in addition to ‘Jo. Cosida.’ It may perhaps represent ‘O. [Pontanus].’ |
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i.e. the usual subscription in the margin is wanting. |
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In this case again occurs the small ‘o’ mentioned above. |
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Datum Rome apud Sanctum Petrum anno Incarnacionis dominice moccccolvii, i.e. the date is unfinished. The marginal note to the John Chapman entry on f. 78 below suggests that the missing date is 1457[–8] 4 Non. March anno 3. In the margin is attached the usual paper strip, with ‘Altare portatile pro presbytero Anglico in forma. Habet taxam.’ |
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Here, and in the case of the following letters, the subscription in the margin is wanting. |
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Dated briefly, ‘Datum etc. ut supra,’ i.e. as in the indult to John Beket, which immediately precedes. The paper strip which was attached in the margin has gone. |
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Dated still more briefly. ‘Datum etc.’ Here again the paper strip has become detached and lost. |
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Imperfect date: ‘Datum Rome apud Sanctum Petrum anno incarnacionis dominice mcccc quinquagesimo septimo [blank space] pontificatus nostri anno 3o.’ |
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In this case the above-mentioned small ‘o’ occurs in the margin. |