Fournier, Les statute et privileges, II (1891), 53, 70.
Also, because by the many vacations which are accustomed to be taken in the said school, not so much utility as waste is known to have resulted, we have decreed by the same authority that lectures shall cease on the following days only, namely, on the feasts of St. Luke, the Apostles Simon and Jude, All Saints, Commemoration of the Dead, St. Martin bishop and confessor, St. Rufus bishop and confessor, St. Katherine the virgin, St. Andrew the Apostle, the blessed Nicholas bishop, the Conception of the blessed virgin Mary, Lucia virgin and martyr, St. Thomas the Apostle; also Christmas eve inclusive to Circumcision also inclusive, Epiphany, St. Hilary bishop and confessor, St. Anthony, the blessed Fabian and Sebastian, Vincent the martyr, the Conversion of St. Paul, Purlfication of the blessed virgin Mary, St. Blasius, St. Eulalia, Ash Wednesday, the Chair of St. Peter, St. Matthew the Apostle, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Gregory the pope, St. Benedict, the Annunciation of the blessed virgin Mary, St. Ambrose the bishop; also from the Wednesday of Holy Week inclusive to the Wednesday following also inclusive, on the feasts of St. Mark the evangelist, St. Peter, of the Order of Preachers, the holy Apostles Philip and James, the Discovery of the Holy Cross, St. John before the Porta Latina, Ascension, St. Yvo confessor, Pentecost with the two days immediately following, Corpus Christi, St. Barnabas the Apostle, Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, St. Mary Magdalene, St. James, St. Peter ad Vincula, St. Dominic, St. Lawrence, Assumption of the blessed virgin Mary, the blessed Louis bishop and confessor, St. Bartholomew the Apostle, St. Augustine, the Beheading of the blessed John the Baptist, the feast of the Miracles of the blessed Mary de Tabulis, St. Egidius, the nativity of the blessed virgin Mary, the Exaltation of the holy Cross, St. Matthew the evangelist and Apostle, St. Michael the archangel, St. Jerome the presbyter, St. Francis confessor, St. Denis, St. Firminus and Sundays.
But on other days vacations and cessations of lectures shall by no means be indicated or taken for any cause or occasion, even if a whole week passes without a holiday. For the funerals of students, moreover, exercises shall be suspended only for that hour in which the body is given to ecclesiastical burial, provided however that an ordinary lecture shall not be lost on this account. Moreover when solemn commencement takes place, on that day there shall be no extraordinary lectures. On the day following, moreover, there shall be ordinary and extraordinary lectures, nor shall anyone of whatsoever condition be deferred to in cessation of the morrow.
This makes about 78 holidays without counting the additional Sundays. The calendar accompanying the statutes (Fournier II, 44-48) lists all these holidays except Corpus Christi and in addition the feasts of the Translation of St. Nicholas, the Translation of St. Benedict, St. Margaret the virgin, St. Anne the martyr, St. Germain bishop and confessor, and the consecration of the church of St. Firminus, not to mention a fifteenth-century addition of Barbara virgin and martyr, St. Roch, and Cleofa. This list of holidays may be compared with that given in the fourteenth-century Calendar of the university of Paris in the preceding selection. A calendar which Fournier, II, 308-12, prints with the statutes of 1303 of the university of Avignon omits four of those listed above but notes some thirty additional saints' days and holidays. A calendar of the university of Perpignan, 1380-1390 (Fournier, II, 655-58) omits eight but adds seven. The medical school next year in its statutes made somewhat different regulations as to holidays, as the following excerpts will illustrate (XXXII- XXXV, Fournier II, 1891, 70.)We have decreed that, if during a week there are several feasts ordained by the church, from those which are designated by name as to be observed in the Calendar inscribed below, or only one such, it or they shall be observed without the day following except the feast of blessed Luke ar~d blessed Nicholas and blessed Katherine, which feasts alone we wish to have a morrow. But if there is no feast day in the week, Wednesday shall be a holiday. Also, the feasts which we wish celebrated in the university are inscribed in the Calendar. Also, these are vacations: from eight days before Christmas until Epiphany, the three days immediately preceding Quadragesima, from eight days before Easter till its octave, from the eve of Pentecost till its octave, from July first till the Assumption of the blessed Mary, from eight days before Michaelmas till eight days after. We have decreed that after the morrow of the Apostles Peter and Paul until the feast of the Assumption of the blessed Mary, bachelors may lecture cursorily except on feast days commonly observed by the people.
Cartulaire de l'universite de Montpellier, I, 687 et seq. Reprinted in Fournier, Statuts et privileges, II, 50-51, section 10.About the order of lectures, moreover, we in the first place ordain and decree that there should be in the university of Montpellier, in the faculties of canon and civil law, four hours according to the custom hitherto observed there, namely, a first morning hour, also the hour of Tierce, also the hour of Nones, also the hour of Vespers. In the first and morning hour doctors alone lecture in the manner which follows`: for doctors lecturing ordinarily on the Decretals will occupy the morning hour, as aforesaid, in which they will lecture for a full year on the first, fourth and sixth books of the Decretals and also the Clementines, during which year one or two or more doctors shall lecture in the way stated below, keeping for the extraordinary lectures of all doctors at the hour of Vespers the entire second book and of the third up to the title "Of parishes" exclusively. Or they may read with the said second book the titles from the fifth "On accusations," "On the sentence of excommunication," and "On the significance of words," as may please those who are deputed to this below. Moreover, in the second year those giving ordinary lectures on the Decretals shall read the second, third and fifth books, in which year the extraordinary lectures at the hour of Vespers for all doctors shall be on the Liber sextus with the Clementines or fourth book. Moreover, the bachelors of canon law shall begin their lectures at Tierce or Nones, as they may see fit to choose, who may also choose what books they wish to lecture on of the Decretals, whether they give ordinary or extraordinary lectures or not, provided however that in these lectures and titles they do not conflict with those giving ordinary or extraordinary lectures at the same time. Also those giving ordinary lectures on the Decretum will always begin at the hour of Tierce and in two years they will cover completely the entire Decretum at the said hour, so that in one year they will get from the beginning of the Decretum to the tenth Causa exclusive and the tractate, "On consecration," while in the following year they will lecture on the rest, namely, from the tenth Causa up to the treatise, "On consecration." Moreover, those giving extraordinary lectures on the Decretum will always lecture at Vespers on the other part which is not assigned that year for ordinary lectures, proceeding with the same as far as they can.