Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XII/Leo the Great/Introduction/Manuscripts

Manuscripts.

I.&#160; At the Vatican.&#160; (&#945;) Of the Sermons.&#160; (1)&#160; Codd. 3835 and 6 are two volumes in Roman Character of a Lectionary of about the 8th century; the second volume contains the &#8220;Tome&#8221; (which in the 8th and 9th centuries used to be read in the Church offices before Christmas):&#160; (2)&#160; 3828, a parchment (10th century), also a lectionary:&#160; (3)&#160; 1195, a parchment folio (11th century), a lectionary containing inter alia some of Leo&#8217;s homilies:&#160; (4)&#160; 1267, 8 and 9 of the same character (11th century):&#160; (5)&#160; 1270 contains the Sermon de Festo Petri cathedr&#230;, (now xiv. in Migne&#8217;s Appendix), from which Cacciari restored Quesnel&#8217;s imperfect edition of it to its present state:&#160; (6)&#160; 1271 and 2 are also lectionaries:&#160; (7)&#160; 4222 in Lombardic characters (9th century), a lectionary:&#160; (8)&#160; 5451 in Roman characters (12th century), a lectionary:&#160; (9)&#160; 6450 parchment (12th century):&#160; a lectionary containing the sermon de Festo Petri cathedr&#230; in the form found and printed by Quesnel; (10)&#160; 6451 similar:&#160; it contains sermons de Quadragesima &#160;and others:&#160; (11)&#160; 6454 similar.

(&#946;) Of the Letters:&#160; these are mostly rather later (i.e. about 12th or 13th century):&#160; but (1)&#160; 1322 is of an older date, and contains besides the epistles, all the acts of the Council of Chalcedon:&#160; (2)&#160; 5759 is earlier than the 9th century; it used to belong to the monastery of S. Columban at Bobbio, and contains 31 letters:&#160; (3)&#160; 5845 is very ancient, and according to Cacciari, Lombardic:&#160; it contains 24 letters.

(&#947;) Letters and Sermons together:&#160; of these there are nine collections in the Vatican, of which 548 and 9 contain the sermon de Absalom &#160;which is condemned by Cacciari.&#160; The Regio-Vaticanus codex 139 is a fine collection of Leo&#8217;s works (12th century).

II.&#160; At other places:&#160; (1)&#160; The codex Urbinas 65 is thought to be a copy of the Regio-Vaticanus 139 made in the 14th century.

(2)&#160; Codex Grimanicus is a on which Quesnel lays great stress:&#160; Quesnel assigns it to the ninth century; it contains 107 letters, of which 28 had never been printed before Quesnel.

(3)&#160; The Thuanei; (&#945;) 129 contains 123 letters:&#160; (&#946;) 780 contains the Tome:&#160; (&#947;) 729 contains the spurious de vocatione gentium and some epistles.

(4) &#160;The Corbeienses are old.

(5)&#160; The Taurinensis 29 D. iv. is a fine 13th-century containing 52 letters.

(6)&#160; The Florentinus codex belongs to the 13th century also.

(7)&#160; Ratisbonensis 113 DD. AA., in the monastery of S. Emeramus, contains 72 letters:&#160; it is said to date from about 750

(8)&#160; The two Bergonenses are of 12th century, and contain 12 sermons.

(9)&#160; Two Chigiani also of 12th century contain 4 sermons.

(10)&#160; The Padilironenses contain 9 sermons and the Tome.

(11)&#160; There are three Patavini, of which two contain the Tome.

(12)&#160; Vallicellani:&#160; these are a number of 11th or 12th-century codices.

There are also the Veneti, the Vercellenses, the Veronenses, &amp;c.

N.B.&#160; The foregoing account is taken from Sch&#246;nemann&#8217;s Notitia Historico-Literaria &#160;(1794), and the translator has no means of knowing whether it is still correct (1890).