5, it was ordered that the feast of St. Richard
of Dundalk should be celebrated in the diocese of Armagh with nine
lessons, in _crastino Joannis et Pauli_.
Sec. X. THE WORKS OF ARCHBISHOP FITZ-RALPH.
(A.) Printed works:--
1. (_a_) _Richardi Archiepiscopi Armachani, Hyberniae Primalis,
Defensorium Curatorum, adversus eos qui Privilegiatos se esse dicunt_,
habitum Avinione in consistorio coram D. Papa Innocentio VJ. et D.D.
Cardinalibus et Prelatis, anno Christi 1357, nunc recens excusum juxta
vetus exemplar et ex fide codicis MS. diligentissime castigatum.
Parisiis apud Joan. Libert, via D. Joan. Lateranens. e regione Auditorii
Regii, MDCXXI. pagg. 1-136.
(_b_) The same is printed in the _Appendix ad Fasciculum Rerum
expetendarum et fugiendarum_ opera et studio Ed. Brown Parochi
Sandrigiae in agro Cantiano. London: Chiswell, MDCXC. vol. ii. pag. 466
to 486.
(_c_) The same in Goldast's _Monumenta S. Romani Imperii_, vol. ii. p.
1391 to 1410.
2. _Summa Domini Armachani in quaestionibus Armenorum_, noviter impressa
et correcta a magistro nostro Joanne Sudoris, cum aliquibus sermonibus
ejusdem de Christi Dominio. "Jehan Petit, venales habentur in vico Divi
Jacobi sub lilio aureo ... quinsiene jour de Juillet mil cinq cens et
douse., fol. clxxvii."
As this is the most important of all the writings of Dr. Fitz-Ralph, and
as the printed book is very rare, it will please our readers to have a
more detailed account of its object and contents. The work forms a real
encyclopaedia of theological learning, and reveals the vast extent of
the author's studies and acquirements. The introduction runs as
follows:--
Reverendis in Christo patribus, Versi Manasgardensi, ac
fratri Joanni electo Clatensi Majoris Armeniae, Richardus
Radulphus Archiepiscopus Armachanus, Hiberniae Primas, per
gratiam sitire justitiam donec hauriatis aquas in gaudio de
fontibus Salvatoris. Ex revelatione Vestrae sanctae
devotionis accepi, ob defectum exercitii in Sacris
Scripturis antiquas quasdam hereses a Sanctis Patribus
reprobatas, et nonnullas contra S. Scripturas novellas
assertiones erroneas in vestris partibus pullulasse, propter
quas per doctores Latinos ex sacris Literis resecandas, eo
quia earum patroni auctoritatem Ecclesiae Romanae non
admittunt estimantes ejus auctoritatem ex Sacris Literis
probari non posse, ad Romanam curiam zelus domus Dei et
Christi chari
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