Gualteri Mapes De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque / Edited, from the unique manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, by Thomas Wright, Esq.

  • Map, Walter, active 1200.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Gualteri Mapes De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque / Edited, from the unique manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, by Thomas Wright, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ritia sueeque diffinitionis formatur principiis, fit enim ex r. et o. et M. et A. et diffinitio cum ipsa, radix omnium malorum avaritia.^ Suggerunt ergo domino suo imperatori Cunnano, de quo monialis videns eum deformem dixerat. Domnus Cunnanus nihil [est] nisi cunnus et anus, quod Roma merito caput orbis est et domina terrarum omnium, An- gliam tributariam deliberet fieri, nec absistunt eum ad hoc ani- mare, donec in suam inducunt avaritiee sententiam. Sed incipere aggredi hoc solum prohibet, quod Gadonem superesse sciunt omnis innocentiae defensorem,nec usquam posse tam arduum opus inchoari sive prope sive longe ad quod ipse non vocaretur ad tuitionem jus- titiee. Suspirat igitur diutius ad hoc cum suspirantibus Romanis, verbumque satis secretum habent. Nesciens hoc agi, dimisit Offa Gadonem diutissime tamen detentum et multa semper excultum reverentia, qui non quantum potuit sed quantum voluit divitiarum secum tulit, Angliamque competenter onustus egressus est ad ex- tremos Indos, abinde nuntiis anhelis et literis vocatus anxiis, quasi qui gladius erat in manu Domini, omnium ad quas mittebatur injuriarum ultor, cujus memoria quoniam in remotissimis agebat remissior erat apud Romanos, fuerunt qui mortem ejus et modum et locum et tempus fingerent imperatori, ne timeret Anglos inva- dere. Convocatur ergo gravissimis imperium edictis factusque nu- merosus ac super numerum exercitus, inprovisos Offam et Anglos appulit, inprovisos ad se dico quoniam a Deo provisos. Nam Gado expeditis Indorum angustiis ad patris sui regnum per mare pro- perans, ventis voto suo provisis, sed in subsidium Anglorum a Deo conversis, eadem die ad litus idem ad quod impetitores et hostes, * The avarice of the court of Rome pope, were pretexts for extorting enormous was proverbial during the Middle Ages, sums of money from the candidales or and was an instrument of burdensome op- persons concerned in them. The simony pression to our forefathers. In the twelfth of the Romish pontiff and cardinals is a and thirteenth centuries all ecclesiastical constant subject of indignant satire in appointments, and the slightest disputes the poems commonly ascribed to Walter which could be urged into an appeal to the Mapes.