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1922 SHORT NOTICES 629 which included the cost of the consecration of the cathedral by a bishop in partibus. In his second article M. de la Martiniere begins what promises to be an elaborate study of the town of Vannes during the period between 1425 and 1554, when it was the seat of the parlement of Brittany. Estab- lished there by Duke John V, the parliament not only survived the marriage of the Duchess Anne to two French kings, but was maintained in its ancient seat for nearly a generation after the absorption of Brittany into the French kingdom in 1532. In tome xxxv, no. 1, M. Leon Maitre begins to discuss at length ' a quels usages ont servi les domaines de la Couronne en Bretagne '. He describes what the royal domain in Brittany actually was, and shows the extent to which it furthered the spread of royal influence during the sixteenth century. T. F. T. In Annales du Midi, nos. 129-30, pp. 36-61 (Toulouse : Privat; Paris : Picard, 1921) M. Henri Stein publishes in extenso two very interesting sets of fifteenth-century local accounts. One is that of the ordinary receipt of the senechaussee of Agenais and Gascony for 1467-8, and the other is a similar account of the receipt of the senechaussee of Quercy for 1469-70. The latter district was then in the hands of Louis XI's brother, Charles of Guienne. The former depended directly on Louis XI himself. In nos. 127-8 M. P. Genevray writes on 'Ouvriers allemands et Con- currence allemande dans les Pyrenees ariegeoises, il y a cent ans'. The writer shows how in the age of the Eestoration a little industrial revolution was effected in the iron-ore district of the upper Ariege from which has resulted the large iron-works and smoky chimneys of the modern Pamiers. This movement was furthered by the help of German workmen and stimulated by the competition of the German iron industry. T. F. T. In the Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique, xviii. 2, 3, M. A. Pelzer prints from the Vatican MS. Lat. 3075 the report of six doctors appointed by John XXII in 1326 to examine fifty-one articles which the editor finds to be taken from Ockham's commentary on the Sentences. Father de Ghellinck contributes an interesting paper on book collectors in the middle ages in connexion with Richard of Bury, bishop of Durham. He describes the contents of the Philobiblon, but does not enter critically into the problem of its authorship. He suggests that Robert Holcot may have had a share in its composition. M. The volume (xli) of the Bullettino dell' Istituto Storico Italiano for 1921 is appropriately devoted to Dante and his time. Signor G. Biscaro contri- butes a long paper on Dante at Ravenna, in which he discusses the reasons which led the poet to leave Verona and to establish himself at Ravenna, the judicial measures taken by John XXII against the Ghibellines of Lombardy, and the plots to destroy the pope by magical arts. The writer further investigates the fortunes of Pietro di Dante ; the career of Archbishop Rinaldo da Corcorezzo ; the interpretation of Dante's second Eclogue ; the poet's death, and the subsequent proceedings of Guido Novello at Bologna ; and the condemnation of the De Monarchia by Cardinal Bertrand in 1329. An appendix of documents is added. Signor F. Torraca discusses the