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 508 MARSIGL10 OF PADUA October established by a citation of the note appended to the Vienna manuscript : * Anno trecentino milleno quarto vigeno Defensor est iste perfectus festo baptiste Tibi laus et gloria Christe : and as Sullivan 2 meets several objections successfully, we can accept 24 June 1324 with confidence. This fits in with what we know of John of Jandun, still canon, 3 we may presume, of Senlis since his appointment in 1316. By 4 November 1323 John of Jandun had completed 4 his interesting work De Laudibus Parisius, and was thus free for about six months to help Mar- siglio. As the necessary appearance of John of Jandun in Paris about this time can hardly have been an accident, some under- standing between the two friends must have been reached. A passage in the De Laudibus Parisius 5 suggests a tempting conjecture on this point. John of Jandun, in contrasting the virtues of Senlis and Paris, remarks that he has received a letter from a learned friend asking him to return to Paris. The jest is scholastic : to be in Senlis is ' esse secundum quid ', to be in Paris is ' esse simpliciter '. Can this have been the signal from Marsiglio that his own share of the work was complete and that he looked for the co-operation of his friend ? The flight of the authors to Germany on the completion of their task was hurried and unexpected. John of Jandun clearly failed to anticipate the discovery of his share in the treatise, for he entered into a bargain 6 on 19 June 1324 : Nicholas of Vienna, who, as we saw, had succeeded Marsiglio as the rector of the university in 1313, was to rent for life a house in the Cloitre-Saint-JBenoit, near and belonging to the Sorbonne, and after him, John of Jandun, on the same terms. The most probable date of their departure is the spring of 1326, for under this year the continuator of William of Nangis 7 states that two sons of perdition, Marsiglio of Padua, an Italian, and John of Jandun, a Frenchman, fled from their studies at Paris, where they had gained a reputation for learning, to Lewis duke of 1 Poole, p. 232. Ante, xx. 296. 3 Through not knowing of this canonry Le Roux de Lincy and Tisserand wrongly suppose that John of Jandun made Senlis a harbour of refuge : Paris et ses Historiens (1867), p. 9. 4 Published in Le Roux : dated in the ' explicit ' on p. 78. The editors think that the Vienna MS. which bears John of Jandun' s signature was taken by him in the flight to Germany. 5 Le Roux, p. 74 ' Noverint universi quod, anno Verbi Incarnati 1323, 3* die lulu, residenti michi in Silvanectensi urbe, unus ex specialibus amicis meis, vir utique magne probitatis et profunde sapientie, inter ceteras epistole clausulas. . . .' 6 Document quoted by Denifle, ii. 303, and Valois, p. 588. 7 Spicilegium, ed. Baluze and Martc-ne (Paris, 1723), iii. 85.