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Further Parallels to the ‘Hadrianum' from St. Gregory the Great's Commentary on the First Book of Kings
Authors: Ashworth Henry
Published: August 2016

A previous study entitled ‘Liturgical Prayers of Pope Gregory I’ sought to establish links between some 80 prayer formulae of the Hadrianum and the recognized authentic works of Saint Gregory the Great. That study, begun and completed several years ago, did not take into account — unfortunately as now appears — works about which there had been controversy in the past and whose Gregorian authenticity was not unanimously accepted. For this reason no parallel texts were given from the Commentary on the First Book of Kings. But Dom P. Verbraken has recently shown in two convincing articles that hesitations concerning St. Gregory's authorship of the Commentary are not justified. Even though the diffusion of this work in the Middle Ages was a very restricted one, there can be no real doubt that it was written by St. Gregory himself. This conclusion was by itself a sufficient stimulus to set about analyzing the Commentary on Kings with a continual eye on the text of the Hadrianum, and the result has not been unrewarding: a new set of parallels can be added to those already published in the previous article, and in addition six new prayers inserted in the list. The very fact that such loca parallela can be found in the Commentary would seem in itself a further proof of the Gregorian authenticity of this work. A few texts have also been taken from the beginning of the Commentary on the Canticle of Canticles, also attributed to St. Gregory.
Some Historical Evidence for the Date of St. John Chrysostom's Birth in the Treatise ‘Ad viduam iuniorem'
Authors: Ettlinger Gerard H.
Published: August 2016

The treatise Ad viduam iuniorem is one of the few works of St. John Chrysostom that can be dated within a space of two or three years. In general the opinion is that it was composed early in Chrysostom's diaconate, which is usually considered to comprise the years 381 to 386. The establishment of the date of this treatise and the identification of the emperors mentioned in it provide evidence for a terminal date of Chrysostom's birth. This latter question will be discussed briefly after the two primary difficulties have been treated.
Varia Archaeologica et Ideologica
Authors: Ladner Gerhart B.
Published: August 2016

1. Architectural Symbolism and Imperial Ideology: Smith,Architectural Symbolism.— 2. Justinian and the Idea of Empire: Rubin,Zeitalter Iustinians.— 3. Byzantine Iconoclasm: a. Grabar,Iconoclasme byzantin; Kitzinger, ‘Cult of Images,' etc.; b. Alexander,Patriarch Nicephorus.— 4. Early Christian Iconology of the Crucifixion: a. Grillmeier,Logos am Kreuz; b. Grabar,Ampoules de Terre-Sainte.— 5. Imago Dei: Crouzel,Image de Dieu chez Origène.— 6. Civitas Dei: Mommsen,Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Part III. —7. Opus Dei: Chavasse,Sacramentaire gélasien.— 8. Philology and Spirituality: a. Fichtenau,Arenga; b. Leclercq,Amour des lettres et désir de Dieu.— 9. Typology and Imagery: Schmidt,Armenbibeln.— 10. Transition and Continuity: A. Late Ancient and Medieval Art:Kunstgeschichtliche Anzeigen, Neue Folge, vol. 3 and vol. 4, 1 and 2. —B. Byzantium: a.Berichte zum XI. Internationalen Byzantinisten-Kongress, München 1958; b.Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vols. 8, 9-10, 11, and 12. —C. Middle Ages and Renaissance: a. Saxl,Lectures; b. Mommsen,Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Parts I and II.
The Codices Vaticani latini 11414-11709
Authors: Prete Sesto
Published: August 2016

Any careful study of the history of erudition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will uncover the names of many remarkable scholars whose work has not thus far been sufficiently evaluated. We may recall the names of Scipione Maffei, Iacopo Facciolati, Egidio Forcellini, Cardinal Angelo Maria Querini, Gian Domenico Mansi, Angelo Maria Bandini, Girolamo Lagomarsini and many others. Some of these men may not have possessed the keenest philological perception nor the deepest historical insight; still, nearly all of them were imbued with the humanist's innate taste for the classical languages; and with incredible dedication and enthusiasm they undertook gigantic works which would often seem to defy the forces of an individual scholar. Some of them did attain their ultimate goals: the monumental works of Muratori, Bandini and Forcellini were all completed. Others, often for reasons beyond their control, were unable to finish their tasks. Among the latter there is especially the Jesuit, Girolamo Lagomarsini. Born at Porto S. Maria (Cadiz) in 1698 of Genoese parents, he was in Rome from 1713 until 1720; he taught Rhetoric first in Arezzo and Prato, later in Florence, spending there the longest period, 1733-1751. It was in Florence that he undertook his magnum opus, an edition of Cicero's works which was to be in thirty volumes. Before he completed the work he was called to the Collegio Romano in Rome, where he taught Greek until his death in 1773.
Hugonis de Sancto Victore Epitome Dindimi in philosophiam: Introduction, texte critique et notes
Authors: Baron Roger
Published: August 2016

L'Epitome in philosophiam fut publié pour la première fois par B. Hauréau, en 1859, conjointement au De contemplatione et eius speciebus en appendice à son ouvrage Hugues de Saint-Victor. Nouvel examen de l'édition de ses oeuvres. Mais la présentation n'était qu'une simple indication et ignorait apparat critique et historique aussi bien qu'étude du texte. Au demeurant, quatre manuscrits seulement — de Paris — étaient signalés, deux autres — de Douai et d'Oxford — devant être découverts ensuite. Ce sont ces six manuscrits que nous aurons à étudier: les quatre de Paris, trois de la Bibliothèque Nationale, MSS lat. 15.315, 14.506, 14.659, un de la Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS lat. 717; le manuscrit de Douai, MS lat. 366; le manuscrit d'Oxford, Balliol College, MS lat. 296, et nous nous demanderons comment se présente la question de l'authenticité hugonienne de l'Epitome et quelles sont les caractéristiques des manuscrits qui nous en présentent le texte.
A Preliminary List of Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, Mainly of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries
Authors: Bloomfield Morton W.
Published: August 2016

This preliminary list of incipits grew out of a card-file which I made to help me in the preparation of The Seven Deadly Sins published in 1952. It has been much expanded as a result of study in various libraries abroad and of a systematic search of certain manuscript catalogues and books. It can provide, I think, the nucleus for a complete list of incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, although at present it is far from complete or free from errors. Guides of this sort, I know from experience, can be of immense help in the wilderness of medieval manuscripts and through the labyrinth of medieval bibliography. I have no illusions about its state of perfection, but, inasmuch as the final form of this type of work must depend on the labors of many, someone must offer his contribution as a first step.
Ein mittelalterlicher Lucankommentar?
Authors: Martin Josef
Published: August 2016

Die Berliner, aus dem Besitze von Phillipps erworbene Sammelhandschrift Lat. oct. 199 enthält unter ihren 65 Blättern auch 7 zusammengehörige Pergamentblätter aus dem 12. Jahrhundert mit Bruchstücken eines Lucankommentars, so dass auf fol. 1 sich zunächst einmal ein Stück über die Verse 1.412-4 findet; es folgt dann auf fol. 6 und 7 und fol. 2ra ein grösseres Stück über kosmologische Anschauungen, entwickelt an Lucan; eine Vorgesetzte Überschrift vor diesem Teil ist weggeschnitten, fol. 2rb und 2v sind nicht beschrieben. Über die Herkunft der Blätter vermuten die in der Anmerkung genannten Mitteilungen: ‘Sie [die Hs.] wird wohl aus einem westfälischen Kloster stammen. Man würde auf Corvey schliessen, wenn die Bruchstücke des Lucankommentars als aus Vacca's Kommentar stammend zu erweisen wären, von dem im Mutterkloster Corbie im 12. Jahrhundert eine Handschrift vorhanden war.’ Diese Vermutung und weiter das Zitat in Zeile 243: ‘alluditur in Alexandro, ubi ait: vetitumque mari se mergere plaustrum,’ wo die Mitteilungen an eine antike Alexander-dichtung denken, rechtfertigen das Interesse des Philologen. Ich lasse zunächst den Text folgen.
Des Patriarchen Anastasius I. von Antiochien Jerusalemer Streitgespräch mit einem Tritheiten (CPG 6958)
Authors: Uthemann Von Karl-Heinz
Published: August 2016

Eine vollständige kritische Ausgabe der Werke des Patriarchen Anastasius I. von Antiochien, der von 558 bis 570 und, nach einem langen Exil, von 593 bis 598 die Geschicke der Reichskirche in Syrien leitete, wird anscheinend auch weiterhin ein Desiderat der Forschung bleiben. Die vorliegende Edition mochte eine kleine, wenn auch nicht unbedeutende Lucke schlieBen.
Nimrod the Astronomer
Authors: Livesey Steven J. , Rouse Richard H.
Published: August 2016

‘Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord’ (Gen. 10.8). This scriptural passage is familiar to many, but to historians of medieval astronomical literature Nimrod assumes a different profession. He stands as the principal character in a mythological astronomical handbook, the Liber Nimrod, cast in the form of a dialogue between the astronomer Nimrod and his disciple, Ioanton. This metamorphosis of Nimrod the Astronomer and his emergence into the medieval West is an interesting topic in its own right and one which this essay will examine.
‘De tradicione Guenonis’: An Edition with Translation
Authors: Paden William D. , Stäblein Patricia Harris
Published: August 2016

British Library manuscript Cotton Titus A.xix, a miscellany compiled in the fifteenth century, contains on folios 153r–155r an untitled Latin version of the legend of Roland with the colophon ‘Explicit de tradicione Guenonis.’ This text was first published in 1837 by Francisque Michel as an appendix to the editio princeps of the Chanson de Roland in the Oxford manuscript, with no commentary of any kind. In 1838 Wilhelm Grimm declared that the Latin version was a deliberate condensation of the legend and hazarded that it might have been composed in the twelfth century. In 1839 the Swiss scholar Johann Caspar von Orelli reprinted Michel's text in a classicizing orthography with occasional conjectural improvements, and dated the poem in the twelfth or thirteenth century on the basis of its resemblance to the Ysengrimus and the Speculum stultorum.
Man‘s Restoration: Robert of Auxerre and the Writing of History in the Early Thirteenth Century
Authors: Neel Carol
Published: August 2016

The historical work of the Premonstratensian canon Robert of Auxerre († 1211) was one of the most influential of medieval chronicles. Vincent of Beauvais († 1264) borrowed heavily from it inSpeculum historiale, the final section of his great encyclopedia. The content of the Auxerre chronicle, extant in its independent version in relatively few manuscripts, thus contributed to an essential element in the textual foundation of later medieval education. The shape of Robert's narrative, however, differed from that of Vincent's treatment of history. The canon of Auxerre wrote in an old genre and for a traditional end. His was the kind of monastic chronicle that had for centuries affirmed for Benedictine and reform congregations their connection to venerable tradition, and traced for them the workings of providence in time. Vincent's work, on the other hand, set the record of human experience alongside compendia about the divine and natural worlds. It thus represented the historiographical fulfillment of the thirteenth century's ambition to systematize knowledge.
‘Pseudo-Augustinian’ Passages in ‘Jóns saga baptista 2’ and the ‘Fourth Grammatical Treatise’
Authors: McDougall David
Published: August 2016

Many years ago Hans Bekker-Nielsen charted the influence of Caesarius of Aries on Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian religious prose in a series of groundbreaking articles. Professor Bekker-Nielsen was quick to acknowledge his debt to Dom Germain Morin, whose lifelong study of the works of Caesarius, culminating in the monumental edition of his sermons, restored to their true author a vast number of misattributed ‘pseudo-Augustinian’ homilies. In Bekker-Nielsen's words, ‘Morin's edition has restored to us an important corpus of ecclesiastical writings, and … it is our duty to tidy up the mess of references to Augustine or pseudo-Augustine in the scholarly literature wherever Caesarius is the genuine author.’ It goes without saying that, following Bekker-Nielsen's example, we should endeavour to do the same whenever someone else can be named as the genuine author of a ‘pseudo-Augustinian’ text. In this paper I should like to draw attention to two further examples of the use by medieval Icelandic authors of Latin sources mistakenly attributed to Augustine.
Alberic of Monte Cassino and the Hymns and Rhythms Attributed to Saint Peter Damian
Authors: Blum Owen J.
Published: August 2016

With each investigation into the literary activities of Monte Cassino during the second half of the eleventh century, the reputation of the Desiderian milieu has taken on new and greater proportions. In this circle of learned monks the name of Alberic the Deacon has been brought into sharper focus. Speculation about his family background has yielded little beyond the conjecture that he was of Beneventan origin. In the records of his monastery he appears for the first time as one already arrived at maturity, since he is introduced as vir disertissimus ac eruditissimus and as vir illis temporibus singularis. It would seem, however, that at least by 1065 — possibly as early as 1057 — Alberic had taken up residence at Monte Cassino and had at about that same period launched his literary career in the stimulating atmosphere of the ‘Desiderian renaissance.’
Caucasia and Byzantine Studies
Authors: Toumanoff Cyril
Published: August 2016

All too slowly, but nevertheless, it is to be hoped, steadily, Byzantine scholars are becoming aware of the special importance of studies dealing with Christian Caucasia — principally Armenia and Georgia — for the studies ex professo their own. That this claim of Caucasiology to a place of special importance in Byzantine studies is no empty boast, an examination of the nature of the Byzantine-Caucasian relations will make amply clear. In the domain of Geistesgeschichte, Caucasia experienced a profound influence of Byzantine civilization. It came, in fact, to form to a very considerable extent a part of that civilization. But, quite unlike Byzantium's younger dependencies, Caucasia's soil had been previously irrigated by waters from other cultural streams, the Iranian, the Syrian, and, together with Byzantium though independently of it, the Hellenistic. The cultures of medieval Armenia and of medieval Georgia were, moreover, rich, vigorous, and original — Armeno-Georgian architecture was, above all the other arts, a thing of originality and beauty; — and what they, in turn, contributed to that of Byzantium is still far from being adequately appraised.
Nicholas of Cusa's Idea of Wisdom
Authors: Rice Eugene F.
Published: August 2016

Like the Preacher, son of David, Nicholas of Cusa knew that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness and he gave his heart to search it out. In phrases reminiscent of the classical definition of philosophy, the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, and medieval venery, he pictured his intellectual life as a venatio sapientiae and himself as a keen and pious hunter. Virtually all his important philosophical and theological works, from the De docta ignorantia of 1440 to the De venatione sapientiae of 1463, document the chase. Wisdom is the principal subject of the dialogues Idiota de sapientia. And when the Pseudo-Petrarch incorporated most of the first of these two dialogues in his De vera sapientia (put together around 1470 and printed in all the collected editions of Petrarch's works), his definition of wisdom was given added publicity and authority.
Les ‘Questiones’ des canonistes (II)
Authors: Fransen Gérard
Published: August 2016

Nous présentons la suite du dépouillement des MSS Bamberg Staatsbibl. Can. 17 (collections II, II et I), Leipzig, Stadtbibl. 247 (II, III, IV, IV) et de la petite collection Barcelone, Arch. Corona de Aragon, S. Cugat 55, fol. 62v-66. Nous groupons les questions qui y sont contenues en deux séries: la première (III) contient généralement, en plus du thème, les références pro et contra de chaque subdivision (sigle R), l'énoncé de la solution (S), souvent obtenue par le moyen d'une distinction (Sd), et la discussion des arguments avancés (A). Les sigles employés dans la table permettent au lecteur de se rendre compte du développement de chaque question.
Introduction to Christian Caucasian History: The Formative Centuries (IVth-VIIIth)
Authors: Toumanoff Cyril
Published: August 2016

It is no doubt a commonplace to state that Western Civilization is an heir, one among several, of an anterior unity: Christian Mediterranean Civilization. In that earlier unity all the local cultures that had sprung up round the great central sea — Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Aegean, Syrian, Iranian, Hellenic, Italic — had coalesced in three successive and increasingly comprehensive phases within the corresponding imperial frameworks of the pax achaemenia, the pax macedonica, and the pax romana. With the advent of Christianity this political and cultural amalgam passed into still another phase, that of the pax christiana, which fell heir also to the hitherto seclusive cultural tradition of the Jews. But, before this last phase was reached, the rhythm of history had changed from gathering to scattering; Iran, which once itself had contributed to the cultural syncretism of the Mediterranean world, and which can be regarded as that world's easternmost bastion, withdrew from it under the impact of the ‘neo-Achaemenian’ and anti-Hellenic reaction which inaugurated the Sassanian age. Iran was to remain hostile to the pax romana and, although Christian enclaves were to be established in its territory, outside the new unity of Christendom. But, even though withdrawn back to the pre-Hellenistic phase of history — as if Alexander the Great had never lived — New Iran exercised, chiefly through Syria, a profound influence, especially in art, upon the rest of the Mediterranean world, both before and after the ushering in of the pax christiana. With time, the disintegration begun in Iran spread. Christian Mediterranean Civilization was broken up and succeeded by several others that derived from it: that of the West was one, that of Byzantium another, and so also that of Christian Caucasia.
Das ‘Corpus areopagiticum’ bei Gerhard von Csanád († 1046)
Authors: Von Ivánka Endre
Published: August 2016

Es ist gewiss ein aussergewöhnlicher Fall, dass ein theologischer Autor des elften Jahrhunderts der Aufmerksamkeit des gelehrten Organisators der Migneschen Patrologie entgangen ist, obwohl sein Werk in einer (wenn auch keineswegs guten) Druckausgabe vom Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts vorlag; es handelt sich um Gerhard von Csanád (24. Ix.1046 als Märtyrer in Ungarn gestorben), dessen Werk — einen Kommentar zum Canticum trium puerorum — Ignaz Graf Batthyány, der Bischof von Siebenbürgen, 1790 auf Grund der einzigen existierenden Handschrift (Cod. Monacensis lat. 6211) in Gyulafehérvár (Karlsburg, Alba Carolina, Alba Iulia) herausgegeben hat. Der Fall ist umso aussergewöhnlicher, als Manitius in seiner Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, die auf S. 74–81 des zweiten Bandes Gerhard ausführlich behandelt, nicht mit Unrecht von ihm sagt: ‘Jedenfalls gehört Gerhard zu den eigenartigsten Schriftstellern des 11. Jahrhunderts sowohl nach dem Inhalt, wie nach der Form seines Werkes.’
Two Hiberno-Latin Texts on the Gospels
Authors: McNally Robert E.
Published: August 2016

The two texts presented here as a contribution to Hiberno-Latin literature are only a fragment of the still unedited Bible commentaries which came forth from the Irish Bible Schools of the Early Middle Ages. These two pieces are valuable sources for the development of biblical exegesis in the pre-Carolingian age, which, except for the accomplishment of the Venerable Bede (d. 735), is distinguished neither for the richness nor the depth of its theological writing. The years between the death of St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636) and Alcuin of York (d. 804) were dominated by the intellectual activity of the Irish monks, whose reputation for learning was mainly founded on their Bible scholarship. But the fruit of this scholarship is not well known. Though the two texts edited below do not represent all the intellectual factors involved in the biblical exegesis of the ancient schools of Ireland, they do reflect the spirit and method of these schools; and they do afford a clear insight into the cultural problem of the development of medieval exegesis at its earliest stage.
The Protest of Saint Louis
Authors: Campbell Gerard J.
Published: August 2016

The figure of Louis IX of France is frequently surrounded by an aura of the unreal. Since he has been honored by the Church and succeeding generations as St. Louis, the tendency has often been to place him on a pedestal and to make of him a plaster statue rather than the vigorous king who ruled France for 44 eventful years in the midst of the thirteenth century. Above all, it is often imagined that a saint-king would surely be something of a pawn in the hands of the clerics, and especially the papacy.
Miscellanea Britannica
Authors: Legendre Pierre
Published: August 2016

Malgré les plus importants travaux, les bibliothèques britanniques sont encore riches de nouveautés pour l'histoire des Droits savants à l'époque des glossateurs. On y trouve en abondance les commentaires de l'école de Bologne transmis par plusieurs générations d'étudiants, ou les œuvres des glossateurs anglais, qui formèrent à partir du milieu du XIIe siècle une école florissante dont l'originalité se laisse deviner à quelques signes extérieurs : attachement à des genres déterminés, prédilection pour certaines méthodes, révérence particulière de plusieurs maîtres italiens. Pour une période plus récente, les documents ne manquent pas non plus et l'histoire juridique françalse ferait parmi eux une ample moisson. Nous ne saurions donner ici les conclusions d'une enquète, encore loin de son achèvement, entreprise sur les conseils que nous donnait peu de temps avant sa mort F. De Zulueta. Délaissant mêrne son objet principal, nous réduirons cette note à la présentation de quelques Ceuvres et fragments canoniques. Cette modeste contribution à l'enrichissement du répertoire des sources se propose de donner une première liste de nouveaux manuscrits (I) ainsi que I'édition de textes caractéristiques (II).
Textes et manuscrits cisterciens dans des bibliothèques des États-Unis
Authors: Leclercq J.
Published: August 2016

Depuis qu'a paru l'ouvrage de S. de Ricci-W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (3 vols., New York 1935–1940), diverses bibliothèques des États-Unis ont acquis des manuscrits dont n'a pas encore été publié un catalogue d'ensemble. lei seront signalés, au moins d'une facon sommaire et seulement afin d'orienter des recherches ultérieures, des textes et des manuscrits cisterciens qu'il m'a été possible de consulter grâce àl'extrême obligeance des possesseurs ou des conservateurs, àqui je tiens à exprimer ici ma vive reconnaissance.
Some Notes on English Uncial
Authors: Wright David H.
Published: August 2016

Latin palaeography of the pre-Carolingian era must surely rank high among the branches of medieval studies which have made dramatic progress in recent decades, and preeminent among the contributions to that progress is of course Codices Latini Antiquiores by E. A. Lowe, of which nine volumes have already appeared and the final two are well under way. But Dr. Lowe is not the kind of scholar who is content merely to compile a corpus which is a model of usefulness and filled with intriguing discoveries; fortunately for us he is also moved from time to time to offer essays in which he gives a broader historical interpretation. Such a book is English Uncial, which the Clarendon Press of Oxford published in 1960, including a substantial introduction, a series of comments on specific manuscripts, and 40 excellent plates. Here the author returns to a phenomenon he has examined several times before, the use of the most calligraphic of classical book hands, scriptura uncialis, in England, beginning late in the seventh century, contemporary with the perfection of the Insular ‘national' scripts.
Aelfric and the Homiliary of Haymo of Halberstadt
Authors: Smetana Cyril L.
Published: August 2016

Besides the version of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary which Aelfric probably used for most of the patristic material in the Catholic Homilies, he also made use of a compilation of brief excerpts from the works of the Fathers by Smaragdus, and the homiliary of Haymo of Halberstadt. A re-examination of the sources of the Catholic Homilies has led to the conviction that Aelfric's debt to Haymo is considerably greater than has been recognized. Besides the two homilies where Aelfric specifically mentions Haymo as his source, we can point out some twenty-five more homilies where Aelfric's text is beholden to Haymo's work.
Stephanus Hugoneti and his ‘Apparatus' on the Clementines
Authors: Zacour Norman P.
Published: August 2016

The Rare Book Room of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries has recently acquired an early fourteenth-century manuscript (Lat. 95) of a hitherto unknown Apparatus on the Clementines. The author is Stephanus Hugoneti (from southern France, possibly Narbonne), whose work as a canonist has gone unknown, and whose ultimate though brief emergence from historical obscurity as bishop of Bologna has hardly been noticed.
More About Robert of Flamborough's Penitential
Authors: Firth Francis
Published: August 2016

I wish to add some details to my paper published in this Bulletin last year and also make a few corrections.

Seven additional MSS have been examined.

(1) MSS of Form A:

Cc Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Libr. 441, pages 37-134;

Ci Cambridge, University Libr. Ii.6.18, fols. 3r-129v;

Ck Cambridge, University Libr. Kk.6.1, the whole MS, fols. 1r-97v;

H Paris, Bibl, Nat. lat. 10691, the whole MS, fols. 1r-96r;

Tu Tübingen, Deposit from the Prussian State Libr. of Berlin lat. fol, 212, fols. 56r-65r;

U Paris, University Libr. 1247, fols. 10r-33r.
Rǒle Du Parisinus Gr. 657 Dans l'Établissement Du Texte Des Lettres De Jean Chrysostome a Olympias
Authors: Malingrey A.-M.
Published: August 2016

Le Parisinus gr. 657 est un beau manuscrit de 310 × 240 mm. Il contient 257 ff. écrits sur deux colonnes de trente lignes. Il est daté du xiie siècle. Il se présente actuellement sous une reliure de cuir rouge aux armes de Henri IV et contient uniquement des œuvres de Jean Chrysostome: ff. 1–182 le commentaire sur les psaumes 119 à 150; ff. 183–257 la collection complète des dixsept lettres à Olympias.
Annual Report
Authors: Kuttner Stephan
Published: August 2016

General Activities. — From January to late August 1967, the undersigned was on leave from the Institute; consequently, activities in the Institute's New Haven office were sharply reduced. Current matters were taken care of on visits made in New Haven at regular intervals by J. F. Kenney and by R. L. Benson, with the assistance of a student.
On the Cheltenham (Phillipps) Manuscripts and Some Others Described in Papsturkunden in England 3.73–87
Authors: Cheney C. R.
Published: August 2016

When in 1951 Walther Holtzmann brought to an end his survey of the English libraries which he had scoured for papal documents, he included the Phillipps collection at Cheltenham. His account was compiled on the basis of an eightday visit to the library nearly twenty years earlier. In printing it he observed that since 1932 many of the manuscripts had found their way into the British Museum, the Bodleian, and elsewhere. He therefore confined himself to describing thirty-five manuscripts which he had failed to trace to other libraries: he did not know whether they were still in the Phillipps collection or whether they had been sold. The fate of many of these manuscripts is now discoverable. Indeed, almost all which could possibly be of service in the search for papalia in England can be traced. It may be of help to users of Holtzmann's work to know their whereabouts.
Gerald of Wales: A Reassessment on the 750th Anniversary of His Death
Authors: Richter Michael
Published: August 2016

The life-span of Gerald of Wales embraces the reign of Stephen in England and the predominance of Owain Gwynedd in Wales at one end, and the early years of Henry III and Llywelyn ap Iorwerth at the other. He lived longer in England than ever he did in Wales. Yet it is his connection with Wales which accounts for much of his undiminished popularity throughout the past centuries. He is remembered as the man who wrote about Wales and who fought for a Welsh bishopric. The name by which he is known implies more than merely his origin; it stands for the deepest commitment of his later years, though not apparently his earlier life.
Beatrice as a Figure for Mary
Authors: Wimsatt James I.
Published: August 2016

The identification of ‘Christ figures’ in medieval literature has no doubt been overdone. Yet it can hardly be denied that we do find there characters who present meaningful analogues to Christ, for along with a good number of probable analogues, the parallels in some cases are explicit; for example, Galahad in the Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory's Grail story. So too in Dante's Vita Nuova the parallel of Beatrice with Christ is not left to surmise. In Chapter 24 Joan, Guido Cavalcanti's donna, is presented as preceding Beatrice; to Dante she is like her namesake John, the one who comes before the True Light. Beatrice who follows, then, is like Christ to him. And in the preceding chapter (23) Dante reports a vision in which he is told of the death of Beatrice; thereupon he sees a cloud ascending to heaven, accompanied by a host of angels singing ‘Hosanna in excelsis,’ conventionally addressed to Christ. Again the analogue seems unavoidable.
The Good Friday Scene in Chrétien De Troyes' ‘Perceval’
Authors: Buettner Bonnie
Published: August 2016

Although numerous studies have investigated the problem of Chrétien de Troyes' religious inclinations, it is surprising to discover that little attention has been devoted to the religious elements of the Good Friday scene in Li Contes del Graal. Scholars rarely discuss the scene on its own merits, but use it as a basis for elucidating, if not compounding, the mysteries of the Grail castle.
Rolle's ‘Form of Living’ and ‘The Pore Caitif’
Authors: Brady Mary Teresa
Published: August 2016

The compiler of the fourteenth-century Middle English manual of popular religious instruction known as The Pore Caitif was somewhat erratic in his acknowledgment of the sources from which he drew the various sections of his fourteen tracts. Although he excerpted passages from Rolle's Encomium nominis Jesu, Emendatio vitae, and Form of Living, he never mentioned Rolle by name or recorded the titles of the books. In one tract, only, ‘Of Vertuous Patience,’ did he state: ‘Al ϸis sentence seiϸ a seynt in his boke’ (fol. 85r). I have dealt elsewhere with the four Pore Caitif tracts which draw on Rolle's Emendatio vitae. In this paper, I will examine the nature and extent of the indebtedness to The Form of Living.
Pier della Vigna's Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: the ‘Eulogy’ of Frederick II and ‘Inferno’ 13
Authors: Stephany William A.
Published: August 2016

Most twentieth-century readers who know of Pier della Vigna at all know of him through the intermediary of Dante's Inferno. As the suicidal tree who bleeds out words with the sap from his broken branches, Piero is one of Dante's most memorable creations, a figure whose name, like those of Francesca da Rimini and Ugolino da Pisa, is for us associated more with one fictional frozen moment than with the realities of a lifetime. And yet, to Dante and his contemporaries, Piero was neither fictional nor obscure. His fame was sufficient, for example, that Dante never felt the need to name him in Inferno 13: enough that he once held ‘ambo le chiavi del cor di Federigo’ (Inferno 13.58–59).
The Consecration of 1254: Heraldry and History in the Windows of Le Mans Cathedral
Authors: Lillich Meredith Parsons
Published: August 2016

The Gothic choir of Le Mans Cathedral was consecrated by Bishop Geoffroy de Loudun on April 24, 1254, while Saint Louis was still in the Holy Land and before the windows had been completely glazed. So much is established by the story related in the chronicle about the winegrowers who, arriving late and thus unable to carry a torch in the procession, decided to donate a window which would provide more permanent illumination instead. Their gift, now Bay c on the north side of the upper ambulatory, is datable ca. 1255 on the basis of this story (see fig. 1). Another window nearby (Bay a) was the gift of Guillaume Roland, then precentor of the cathedral, who is named in an inscription and depicted as a priest; since he became bishop before September 1255 another firm date is established for the glazing. The axial window (Bay g) depicts a knight who was present at the 1254 consecration: Rotrou de Montfort, shown with banner and heraldic surcoat de gueules à 2 léopards d'or passants (fig. 2). His arms are known to us from the Bigot Roll, which records the Angevin forces marshaled by the Capetian prince Charles d'Anjou for his campaigns in Flanders in the same year. Directly above Rotrou's window, the prestigious axial clerestory was the gift of Bishop Geoffroy de Loudun himself, builder of the new choir and dead by August 1255. His arms appear eight times in the borders: gueules à la bande d'or. And Bay C in the north clerestory depicts two knights and a canon of the family de Cormes with their arms. The canon is no doubt Geoffroy de Cormes, dead in 1263. The warriors who flank him are his father Guillaume ‘Major’ de Cormes and his uncle Jean, and they too are known to us from the Bigot Roll which gives their arms: ‘l'escru blanc a III jumelles noires.’
Piers's Pardon and Langland's Semi-Pelagianism
Authors: Adams Robert
Published: August 2016

’Hold there!’ said he. ’One must be a theologian to see the point of this question. The difference is so subtle, that it is with some difficulty we can discern it ourselves — you will find it rather too much for your powers of comprehension.

Pascal,The Provincial LettersI.

Virtually all who have written onPiers PlowmanB agree that one's interpretation of the pardon in Passus 7 is central to one's understanding of the entire poem. Unfortunately, no similar agreement prevails concerning the details of the scene or its general significance, a fact we might infer from the widely discrepant interpretations of the entire poem's subject and outlook. Nevertheless, most who have written on the subject of the pardon may be grouped into one of two categories, depending on their assessment of the episode's general rhetorical slant.
La pensée religieuse des Mozarabes face à l'Islam
Authors: Urvoy Dominique
Published: August 2016

Le terme ‘mozarabe’ (musta'rib = arabisé) n'apparaît qu'au xie siècle, dans le Léon. Il désigne un phénomène limité d'influence culturelle — notamment en art — par suite de l'émigration vers le Nord de Chrétiens ayant d'abord vécu dans le Sud de la Péninsule ibérique, sous le pouvoir musulman. C'est improprement que l'on a étendu ce terme à tous les Chrétiens d'Espagne durant la période qui précède les premiers succès décisifs de ce qu'il est convenu de nommer la reconquista. Non seulement ceux des royaumes du Nord, qui n'ont assimilé que quelques thèmes décoratifs, quelques éléments musicaux et quelques symboles culturels arabes, mais une partie de ceux qui sont restés dans les régions islamisées et qui se sont cramponnés durant un certain temps à leur culture latine, n'ont pas à être qualifiés de la sorte.
On the Meaning of the Term ‘Liber Commicus’
Authors: Baldwin Spurgeon
Published: August 2016

The somewhat striking title of Liber Commicus was the usual designation in the Mozarabic Church for the liturgical book known elsewhere in western Christendom as the lectionarium, that is, the collection of passages from the Old Testament, Epistles, and Gospels specified for reading during the Mass throughout the ecclesiastical year. This book, so important for the history of the medieval Church in the Iberian peninsula, and cited in a great many documents, has survived in two complete manuscripts from the 11th century, two significant fragments from the 9th and the 11th centuries, and several smaller fragments. First made available by Morin in 1893, the work has most recently been edited by Pérez de Urbel and González y Ruiz-Zorilla. (Their spelling commicus is related to certain arguments relative to the term's origin; this form of the word will be used in this study up to the point at which I wish to argue otherwise.)
New Horizons in Patristic Theology: A Survey of Recent Work
Authors: Musurillo Herbert
Published: August 2016

Since the period between the two world wars the study of the Fathers has gradually taken a new direction. In the first place, the age of the masters was past; their brilliant, all-embracing structures laid the foundations, it is true, of the modern critical age, while at the same time they have left us with a profound sense of dissatisfaction. Many of the great classics of patristic scholarship of the past attained the level of universal statement only by means of a swift and perhaps over-hasty reading of the evidence — a good example of this would be some of Harnack's monumental work — and so there remains the endless task of revision, of the painstaking work of filling in a mosaic of detail, without which the broad vision of truth is unattainable. In the second place, ours is a perhaps more historico-critical attitude towards some of the areas of patristic doctrine. Although it is hazardous to make a generalization, it may be said that the modern approach to the Old and the New Testament is apt to be widely divergent from that of many of the Fathers of the Golden Age; and our task is rather to understand the techniques which they used in solving their exegetical problems.
Langland and Two Scriptural Texts
Authors: Kellogg Alfred L.
Published: August 2016

That William Langland, perhaps best known for his observation of contemporary English life, existed also in a world of Biblical allusion is apparent to anyone who turns the pages of Piers Plowman. Furthermore, the notes of Skeat and the recent study of Robertson and Huppe have clearly shown that the Biblical text reached Langland not directly, but surrounded by an accretion of commentary. Yet in relatively few cases is our knowledge sufficiently detailed to permit us to know with any degree of certainty the form or forms in which a given text reached Langland and the artistic purposes he made it serve. The present essay seeks to study in detail two Biblical texts - to show the evolution of the bodies of commentary with which Langland came into contact, and to examine the ways in which he adapted commentary, and on occasion even text, to fulfill his artistic intention.
The Tradition of Medieval Slavdom: New Interpretations
Authors: Halecki Oscar
Published: August 2016

Concluding his recent survey of the rise and crisis of medieval Slavdom, Francis Dvornik has rightly stressed that ‘it is the conserved memory of their storied past that has always inspired the Slavs in their ever-recurring struggles for freedom, and it will never fail to have significance for them.’
Stoic Indifferents and Christian Indifference in Clement of Alexandria
Authors: Donahue John R.
Published: August 2016

Throughout the Paedagogos, the Stromata, and the Quis dives salvetur? Clement of Alexandria uses the term ‘indifferent’ (ἀδιάφοϱος) or one of its derivatives. In all of these instances except three, the term is found in the moral sense redolent of Stoic usage. The present study attempts to treat by a comprehensive analysis of the term the meaning of ‘indifferent’ in Clement, its significance for his moral ascesis, and certain problems that arise from its use. Because of the marked similarity between Clement's usage of this term and that of the Stoics a brief discussion of the Stoic notions of indifference is necessary as a background to Clement's teachlng. It is hoped that such a study will provide a concrete example of the adaptation of Stoic morality to practical Christian asceticism.
The Probable Order of Ockham's Non-polemical Works
Authors: Brampton C. K.
Published: August 2016

Since the appearance in 1913 of Hofer's critical survey of Ockham's life, a revival of interest in Ockham's non-polemical works has encouraged the publication of monographs and articles to an almost embarrassing extent. Yet in contrast to the energy expended by scholars in this field of research stands their apparent failure to agree upon the order in which Ockham produced them. While Baudry places the Sentence-Commentary after the four logical works and the Physics, Boehmer and Iserlolr reverse the position. Again, Iserloh is persuaded that the Logic followed the Quodlibeta and was written at Avignon between 1234 and 1328, whereas Baudry is of opinion that it was written before 1324 at Oxford: Scholz,” on the other hand, conjectures that the Logic and probably the Quodlibeta were produced at Munich after 1328. In face of these divergent opinions it is difficult to discern upon what principles these scholars have based their conclusions.
Liturgical Manuscripts Preserved in Hungarian Libraries
Authors: Strittmatter Anselm
Published: August 2016

‘Notre époque a vu bien des sécularlsations, sur le bienfait desquelles on n'a pas toujours été d'accord. Il me semble que la sécularisation de la liturgie ne choquerait personne et que tous les esprits droits y verraient un progrès vers une vérité plus entière.’ Thus wrote the late Michel Andrieu in 1948 at the conclusion of his ‘avant-propos’ to the second volume of his great edition, Les Ordines Romani du haut moyen âge. ‘Secularization’ is a strange word to apply to the critical study of any subject, be it ever so sacred, but it is obvious that the distinguished author considered his work part of a progressive movement, one which indeed he had himself promoted and was promoting as few other men of our time. This movement may be said to have begun with the publication of Léopold Delisle's famous Métnoire sur d'anciens sacramentaires, published in 1886 in the Mémoires de l'Académic des inscriptions et bellesletires.
‘Acedia’ 700–1200
Authors: Wenzel Siegfried
Published: August 2016

Among the seven deadly sins, none is more interesting to study for its historical development and the complexity of its meaning than the sin of acedia. For while its companions — with the possible exception of avarice — remained fairly static through the centuries of medieval thought, and indeed have remained so to the present, acedia presented a variety of faces and changed in its very nature, from the moment when it entered Christian teaching in the West to the fifteenth century. In Christian thinking, pride has always been pride; its psychological roots may have been explained in agreement with different philosophical and psychological systems, and its manifestations may vary according to changing attitudes and experiences, but its nature has remained essentially unchanged. The same is true of envy, wrath, lust, and the others. But not so with acedia. A reflection of the complexity which this concept acquired during its medieval lifetime can still be seen in the totally different connotations which its names have for the cognoscenti of today. The ancient term acedia fascinates because it suggests such phenomena as spiritual dryness, ennui or WeItschmerz, while its vernacular equivalent sloth, as everyone readily agrees, stands for something so common and ordinary that it hardly deserves a second thought.
Some Data on Ninth-Century Milan
Authors: Pásztory Catherine A.
Published: August 2016

My intention is to cast some additional light upon the history of Milanese civilization during the mid- and later ninth century and to do so by way of describing and comparing some of that period's Lombard literary and artistic creations.
Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages
Authors: Kibre Pearl
Published: August 2016

In the annals of medieval medical as well as cultural history the name and authority of Hippocrates of Cos knows no rival other than his later disciple, Galen. Yet there has so far been no systematic attempt to gather together, with any degree of completeness, the names and locations of manuscripts of the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of the famed physician of Cos. The present investigation of this subject, that is of the constituents of a ‘Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in Latin’ or of a ‘Hippocrates (Ypocras) Latinus,’ was begun nearly four decades ago, particularly in the ill-fated years 1938 to 1939, while on a sojourn in Europe before the outbreak of World War II. The intention, then as now, was to provide the basis for determining the extent to which there was continuity in the transmission of Greek medicine, albeit in Latin dress, from antiquity to the early and later Middle Ages. The research was thereafter continued sporadically whenever there was an opportunity to examine manuscripts in European depositories. In recent years the work has been greatly facilitated by the published results especially of the researches of two late scholars of medieval medical manuscripts, Augusto Beccaria and Ernest Wickersheimer, as well as by the cataloguing of various manuscript collections. However, there still remains the task of drawing out the individual works appearing under Hippocrates' name together with their commentaries, not only in the pre-Salernitan, but also in the succeeding centuries before about 1500. To this endeavor the present investigation is directed.
The Diffusion of Aristotle's Moral Philosophy in Spain, ca. 1400 — ca. 1600
Authors: Pagden A. R. D.
Published: August 2016

Throughout much of the Middle Ages the Iberian Peninsula had been responsible for the transmision to Europe of many of Aristotle's works and those of his Arab commentators. Without the ‘school’ of translators, which flourished at Toledo for nearly a century after its foundation in the 1120s by archbishop Raimundo, the twelfth-century revival of Aristotelianism at Paris would scarcely have been possible. But the motley Christian kingdoms of the Peninsula benefited less from the tradition of Arab scholarship than did their northern neighbours. Intellectual concerns were rather narrowly limited to the requirements of the schools and interest in the moral writings of Aristotle was therefore less pronounced than it was in the sphere of natural philosophy. The evidence for Spanish scholarly initiatives in respect of Aristotle's moral philosophy before the beginning of the fifteenth century is, indeed, slender; there are some commentaries and compendia used in teaching but certainly nothing to compare with the activities of Grosseteste, Moerbeke, Burley, and Oresme.