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101. Publ. VL, XVI, 297-308 (undated).
102. Cf. Cheney, English Synodalia, 55-6, 82-4; idem, EHR, LXXV, 1, ff.
103. Of note, among the passages in Raimundo's statutes which figure neither in the Paris statutes nor
in the Summa, is the chapter De racionariis which dealt with a particular local abuse -- the lay
prebendary: VL, XIV, 303. See above, p.44.
104. E.g. to the injunction that the sacrament be kept 'sub clave' (Paris, cap. V. 7 [PL. 212, 60C]), both
add 'si fieri potest' (Summa, fo. 128vb; VL, XVI, 299); abstention ' ab omni peccato' rather than 'ab
omni mortali' as condition of absolution (Summa, fo. 128ra; VL, XVI, 300. Cf. Paris, cap. VI. 8 [PL.
212, 61C]); annual rather than six-monthly synods (Summa, fo. 127rb; VL, XVI, 297. Cf. Paris, cap. II
[PL.212, 58C]).
105. Summa, fos. 128rb, 130ra. There are many instances of verbal parallels between the Lérida
statutes and the Paris statutes which do not occur in the Summa and some instances of parallels
between the Summa and the Paris statutes which do not occur in the Lérida statutes. E.g. -- respectively
-- the obligation on the clergy to come to the synod 'et si gravi infirmitae detenti, aut alia necessitate
inevitabili, venire non potuerint' to send their chaplains (Paris, cap. II 6[PL. 212, 59A]; VL, XVI, 2970,
but 'necessitate canonica' in Summa, fo. 127rb; the hearing of confession 'in spiritu lenitatis' in Paris,
cap. VI. 3 [PL. 212, 61A]; Summa, fo. 127vb. (actually 'in spiritu levitatis' in MS.), but 'in spiritu
humilitatis' in VL, XVI, 300. But we may acccount for these apparent inconsistencies by assuming that
both Raimundo and Pedro, independently, had the Paris statutes before them.
106. Sáinz de Baranda, in ES, XLVII, 175, dates them 1240.
107. VL, XVI, 307-8. The injunction that each priest have 'unum manutergium. . .circa altare ad
tergendum os et nares, si fuerit necesse' is, however, based on Eudes de Sully, Communia praecepta,
27. Cf. PL. 212, 65D.
108. Artonne, BEC, CVIII, 71. See also Cheney, Synodalia, 40 ff.
109. Aguirre, V, 206.
110. VL, XVII, 212.
111. Fo. 128rb: 'Alioquin procedat in pena secundum formam concilii generalis, que talis est: Vivens
arcebitur ab introitu ecclesie et moriens carebit ecclesiastica sepultura.'Cf. IV Lat. can. 21 and Conc.
Lérida, can.II (ES, XLVIII, 314): 'et viyens ab ingressu ecclesiae arceatur, et moriens christiana
[Lérida: ecclesiastica]careat sepultura'.
112. E.g. the Lérida prohibition on priests who treat the annual synod as an occasion for an illicit
holiday among the flesh-pots of the cathedral city appears (felix culpa!) in the section headed De multis
infortuniis quae eveniunt in celebrando: VL, XVI, 305. Cf. Paris, Communia praecepta, 26 [PL. 212,
65C-D]. The Lérida statutes deal with the sacraments in the same order as the Paris statutes; the
Summa adopts a different order.
113. E.g. Westminster, 1200, c. 3: D. Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Brittaniae et Hiberniae, I (London,
1737), 505; Canterbury I, 1213/14, c. 29: Powicke-Cheney, Councils and Synods, I, 31.
114. PL. 212, 63D; VL, XVI, 303-4.
115. Summa, fo. 127vb.
116. Fo. 128va.
117. Fos. 128ra, 128rb.