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An Englishman at the Roman Curia during the Council of Basle: Andrew Holes, his sermon of 1433 and his books

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Margaret Harvey
Margaret Harvey
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Department of History, University of Durham, 43–46 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EX
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Andrew Holes, a canon lawyer working in the papal court, was one of the few foreigners really admired by Vespasiano da Bisticci. Roberto Weiss directed attention to him, but in 1944 Josephine Bennett for the first time thoroughly discussed his career, trying also to discover the titles of some of the books he bought in Florence. These were said by Vespasiano to be so numerous that he had to have them specially shipped home. In 1944 only about three were discoverable. Nor, of course, during the war was Bennett able to examine the sermon (known only in a Vienna manuscript) that Holes delivered at the English Hospice probably on Tuesday 7 July, 1433 for the Feast of the Translation of Thomas Becket, which would have been one way to investigate his attitudes. Weiss had examined the sermon and Bennett knew of it from him. However, to someone such as Weiss, primarily interested in the Renaissance viewed narrowly as the revival of the pagan classics, there was nothing in it of importance.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 19 - 38
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1 The research for this article was made possible in part by a grant from the British Academy, for which I am very grateful. Professor A. C. de la Mare told me a great deal about Holes, showed me his handwriting and most generously supplied me with a list of his manuscripts known to her. Without this help the article could not have been written. On Holes see especially Bennett, Josephine W., ‘Andrew Holes: a neglected harbinger of the English Renaissance’, Speculum xix (1944), 314–35CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Emden, A. B., BRUO, 3 vols, Oxford 1957–1959, 2 949–50.Google Scholar

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78 New Coll., MS 219, signed by John Baerts, 1439. See Watson, Catalogue, no. 854; de la Mare, Duke Humfrey, 18. These are certainly lectures, fo. i67r.

79 New Coll., MSS 209, 218, 224 are all of a set.

80 New Coll., MS 209 fo. 53V on d. 23 In nomine at hinc eciam, where the discussion is about cardinals who withdraw obedience before time from a pope said to be a heretic. He notes that prelates who assemble in a council called by someone without the proper power cannot make decisions until the proper authority ratifies them: ‘quod nota quia facit pro congregacione consilii pysani. Quia licet fuerunt vocati prelati per collegium cardinalium presupposito quod non habuerunt potestatem vocandi tamen data congregatione actus gesti per eos valent presupponendo tamen quod auctoritas illorum inter quos erat dissectatio de papatu non erat necessaria’. There is a further reference at fo. 64V.

81 New Coll., MS 218 fo. 162V, ‘Millesimo CCCCIII die xvii Aug complevi lecturam decreti presentis anni’. This comes at c. 6 q. 5 after ‘hoc autem’ in mid-gloss.

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85 Ibid. fo. 48r.

86 Ibid. fo. 6gv.

87 Mag. Coll. MS Lat. 113; Alexander and Temple, Illustrated MSS., no. 878.

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97 New Coll., MS 133

98 Bodl. Lib., MS Rawl., G 48. The MS is in the hand of Baerts, according to de la Mare. Finished 1439 (fo. 47V). For modern edns, see Michael Perrin, L'Ouvrage du Dieu Createur, 2 vols, Sources Chre'tiennes ccxiii;Google ScholarSamuel, Brandt (ed.), L. Caeli Firmiani Lactanti Opera ii/1 CSEL 27Google Scholar. The MS contains the disputed passage in 19, 8, at fos 46V-7. The excerpt of Quintilian is at fos. 48r-51v from Institutio Oratoria x. i. 46–91, where it ends in mid-sentenceGoogle Scholar. Cf. Quintiliani, M. Fabii, Institutionis oratoriae, ed. Michael, Winterbottom, 2 vols, Oxford 1970Google Scholar, and idem, ‘The textual tradition of Quintilian 10. 1. 46P, Classical Quarterly xii (1962), 169–75, ar”d esp. p. 173 for this MS.Google Scholar

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101 In private hands. Not seen

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107 Mag. Coll., MS 141, fo. 5r (Prose, 318)

108 Bennett, art. cit. 322–3

109 Mag. Coll., MS 141, fo. 8 (Prose, 346); fo. I3r (Prose, 383–4); fo. 26r (Prose, 482–4)

110 Ibid. Mag. MS 141, fo. lor (Prose, 360)

111 Ibid. fo. 35r (Prose, 556)

112 Ibid. fo. 36V (Prose, 568–70)

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