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Note on Transcriptions
My transcription conventions are explained in detail in previous
books (The Preaching of the Friars: Sermons Di·used from Paris
before 1300 (Oxford, 1985), xi; Death and the Prince: Memorial
Preaching before 1350 (Oxford, 1994), 7–8; Medieval Marriage Sermons:
Mass Communication in a Culture without Print (Oxford,
2001), 43). An asterisk before a word indicates the presence of an
error too trivial to deserve specifying. In the present volume I normalize
‘d’ to ‘t’ in ‘sicut’, and ‘t’ to ‘d’ in ‘sed’; and ‘n’ to ‘m’ in
words like ‘comprobatum’, ‘imprecatur’, ‘immo’, and ‘tempore’.
The problem arises because the letter is often swallowed up in an
abbreviation and there is no standard classical or medieval orthography.
I have normalized in these cases even where, as occasionally
happens, the other form is written in full: e.g. sicud or inprecatur.
Abbreviations
BAV Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
BL British Library
BN Biblioth›eque Nationale de France
Migne, PL J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Latina
MS/ms. Manuscript
X. Decretals of GregoryIX (X. 2. 20. 47 =book 2, titulus
20, chapter 47 of the Decretals)