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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 45. 



POETA ANGUCUS. 



Evorv proof or disproof of statements continu- 

 ally made with regard to the extravagant^ titles 

 assumed, or complacently received, by the bishops 

 of Rome being both interesting and important, the 

 inquiry of J^ B. (Vol. ii., p. 167.) is well de- 

 serving of a reply. Speaking of a passage cited 

 by Joannes Andreic, in his gloss on the preface to 

 the Clementines, he asks, "who is the Anglicus 

 Poeta?" and "what is the name of his poem," in 

 which it is said to the pope, "Nee Deus es nee 

 homo, quasi neuter es inter utrumque ?" 



" Poetria nova" was the name assigned to the 

 hexameter poem commencing, " Papa stupor 

 niundi," inscribed, about the year 1200, to the 

 reigning Pope, Innocent III., by Galfridus de 

 Viiio salvo. Of this work several manuscript 

 copies are to be met with in England. I will 

 refer only to two in the Bodleian, Laud. 850. 83.: 

 Ken. Digb. 1665. 64. Polycarp Leyser {Hist. 

 Poem, medii ^vi) published it in 1721 ; and Ma- 

 billon has set forth another perforiuance by the 

 same writer in elegiac verse {Vet. Aiialect. pp. 

 369 76., Paris, 1723). In the latter case the 

 author's name is not given, and accordingly he is 

 entered merely as " Poeta vetus " in Mr. Bowling's 

 Notitia Scrij>torum SS. Pat., sc. p. 279., O.xon., 

 1839. Your correspondent may compare with 

 Androfe's extract these lines, and those which 

 follow them, p. 374. : 



" Papa lirevis vox est, seel virtus nominis hiijus 

 Perhistrat quicquid arcus uterque teuLt." 



Galfridus evidently derived his surname from 

 his treatise on vines and wine; and he has been 

 singularly unfortunate iu the epithet, for I have 

 never seen ViN-s.\ur correctly j)rinted. It varies 

 from "de Nine salvo" to " Mestisaaf." Pits and 

 Oudin call him " Vinesalf,'' and Fabricius and 

 JIansi change him into " Vine fauf." 



The (juestion now remains. Are the Roman 

 Pontiffs and their Church answerable for the tole- 

 ration of such language ? Uncertainty may on 

 this occasion be removed by our recollection of 

 the fact, that a " Censura " upon the glosses of the 

 papal canon law, by Manriq, Master of the Sacred 

 Palace, was issued by the command of Pope 

 Pius V. in 1572. It was reprinted 'uy Pappus, 

 Argent. 1599, 12mo., and 1609, 8vo., and it con- 

 tains ;m order for the expurgation of the words 

 before quoted, together with the summary in the 

 margin, " Papa nee Deus est nee homo," wliich 

 ap])ears iu every old edition ; for instance, in that 

 of Paris, 1532, gig. aa. iij. Sofar the matter loolcs 

 well, and the prospect is not hopeless. These 

 glosses, however, were revised by iniother master 

 of the Apostolic Palace, Sixtus Fabri, an<l were 

 edited, under the sanction of Pope Gregory XIIL, 



in the year 1580; and from this authentic im- 

 pression the impious panegyric has not been with- 

 drawn. The marginal abridgment has, in com- 

 pliance with Manriq's direction, been exterminated; 

 and this additional note has been appended as a 

 palliative : — 



" Hac verba sane modo sunt accipienda: prolata 

 eniin sunt ad ostendendum amplissiniam e.sse Romani 

 Pontiticis potestatem." — Col. 4. ed. Paris, 1585. 



R.G. 



Poeta Anglicus (Vol ii., p. 167 ). — I cannot an- 

 swer J. B.'s Queries ; but I have fallen upon a 

 cro>is scent, which perchance may lead to their dis- 

 covery. 



1. loannes Pitseus, de Scriptor. ad ami. 1250, 

 (JRelat. Histor. de Rebus Anglicis, ed. Par. 1619, 

 p. 322.), gives the following account " de Michaele 

 Blaunpaino :" — 



" Michael Blaunpainus, vulgo Mapister cognominatus, 

 natione Anglus, patria Coriuibiensis, . . . missus Ox- 

 onuim, doiiide Parisios, .... prje ca?teris se dedidit 

 elegaiitioB linguae LatincE, fuitque inter pra?cipiios sui 

 tempiiris poihis per Angliam potissimum et Galliam 

 numeratus. Hunc siiliinde citat Textor in Cornucopia 

 sub nomine Michaelis An(//ici. ... In lucem emisit : 

 Historiarum Normannia;, librum unum : Contra Hen- 

 ricimi Abriiicensem versu. librum unum. Archipoeta 

 vide, quod non sit. {MS. in Bibliotheca hunltiana.) 

 p^pistolarum et carminum, librum unum. Claruit 

 anno Rlessia; 1250, sub Heurici tertii regno." 



2. Valerius Andreas, however, gives a somewhat 

 different account of Michael Anglicus. In his 

 Bihlioth. Belg. ed. 8vo. Lovan, 1623, p. 609., he 

 says : 



" Michael Anglicus, Bellimontensis, Hanno, I. V. 

 Professor et Pueta, scripsit : 



Eclogarum, lil)ros iv., ad Episc. Parisian. 

 Eclogaruin, libb. ii., ad Lud. Villerium. 

 De niutatione studiorum, lib. i. 

 Elegiain dcprecatoviam. 



Et alia, qu.ne Paris, sunt typis edita, IIujus eru- 

 ditionem et Poemata Bapt. Mantuanus et Joannes 

 Ilavisius Testor epigrammate commeneiarunt : hie etiain 

 in Epi'hetis suis Ani/lici <i uctof itatem non semel ad- 

 ducit" 



3. Fi-anciscus Sweertius {Athenm BelgiccB, ed. 

 Aniv. 1628, p. 565.) gives a similar account to 

 this of Valerius Andreas. 



4. And the account given by Christopher Ilend- 

 reich {Pandectce Brandenhurgicce, ed. Berolini, 

 1699, p. 193.) is substantially the same; viz., 



" Anglicus Michael cognomine, sed natione Gallus, 

 patria Bebnontensis, utriusque juris Professor, scripsit 

 Eclogarum, lib. iv. ad Episc." &c. . . " Et divcrsorum 

 carminum libros ali(|uot, qua? omnia Parisiis impressa 

 sunt. Claruit autem a. c. 1500." 



5. Moreri takes notice of this appai-ent confusion 

 made between two different writers, who lived two 

 centuries and a half apart. Speaking of the later 



