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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Winston Black already wrote: >The passage appears to be from Johannes de Burgo's (John Burgh) >pastoral manual "Pupilla oculi" (late 14th c.). Seems likely, >given the provenance. >Barring that, it could be from any number of commentaries on >Gratian's Distinction 23 on church orders So I am not really adding much by pointing out that Johannes de Burgo is offering a good match with the sentence "Episcopus et nullus inferior homo potest ordines conferre", see the passage of the Pupilla oculi quoted quoted in William Maskell, _Monumenta ritualia ecclesiae Anglicanae_, p.lxxxvii: "Episcopus et nullus inferior eo, potest ordines conferre auctoritate propria et ordinaria potestate. Alii vero non episcopi, ut abbates, ex privilegio vel speciali permissione possunt minores ordines conferre. Sacros autem solus episcopus." Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xf0YAAAAYAAJ The full title of the edition quoted (Paris 1510) is given in a footnote on p.lxxxix (n.29). Kind regards, O. ============================== Dr. Otfried Lieberknecht D-40477 Duesseldorf Klever Strasse 37 Tel. +49 (0)172 407 6073 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.lieberknecht.de ============================== ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html