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 'Notices of New Boohs. 131 on St Matthew and St Luke, with some smaller ascetic treatises in Latin, among which is a meditation of St Anselm on the Miserere. Part II. opens with a new recension of the Speculum, from an uncial MS. (cent. vi. or vn.). This follows exactly the old" Italic" version, whereas the MSS. before used have all been revised. We now have for more than 5000 verses of the Bible the authentic text of this version. St John's 1st Ep. v. 7, twice occurs there, so that Tischendorf must retract his statement, that the disputed words are only found " in codd. vulgatse post sec. x. exaratis, et in quibusdam Patribus inde a Vigilantio Tap- sensi," (sec. vi.) The new Speculum agrees with the account of Cassio- dorus, who calls it "liber quasi philosophise moralis, quem pro moribus instituendis atque corrigendis ex divina auctoritate collegit." It is di- vided into 144 chapters, each containing the passages of the Bible which relate to its title. In the Imperial Library at Paris are two MSS. of the Speculum, one of which (No. 2977 a.) generally agrees with the Cardinal's edition ; and occasionally supplies some verses which that wants. Another MS. (No. 7520) in the Paris Library supplies the opening paragraphs of the treatise Sancti Aug. nova grammatica, which were de- fective in the Roman MS. M. Miller (p. 577) has printed these para- graphs, and considers the work to be genuine. The 2nd part concludes with a Latin treatise on grammar by Dyna- mius, and 43 hymns from the Uymnarium Bobbiense, several of which had been published before. Two indexes, one of matters, and the other of words to be added to Forcellini and Ducange, complete the volume. The rest of the series is devoted to Greek Fathers.] Sti Greg. Turon. lib. ined. de cursu stellarum ratio qualiter ad officium implendum debeat observari sive de cursibus ecclesiasticis. Nunc prim, ed. recens. vindicavit Fr. Haase. 4to. pp. 51. Vratislaviae, Max. [Printed from Cod. Bamberg. HJ. iv. 15. sec. vm. "insignis ille et scriptura longobardica, .... continens prseter Mallium Theodorum et Isid. de rer. nat. duos Cassiod. inst. div. et secularium litterarum libros recte conjunctos et pleniores multisque partibus rectius scriptos quam adhuc editi sunt, ac prseterea librum eum, quem dudum periisse credi- tum nunc primus in lucem profero Greg. Tur. de curs, eccl." The MS. has no author's name, nor has it the title which Gregory (Hist. Franc, x. fin.) gives : " de cursibus etiam ecclesiasticis unum librum condidi." That Gregory was the author appears from many similarities of style and thought between it and his published works, and from the notice of two comets which were followed by great disasters, both observed in Auvergne, and both recorded in the Hist. Franc, iv. 31 and 52. A part of the preface was edited by Haupt with Ov. Halieut. Lips. 1838. The work opens with recounting the seven wonders of art (Noah's ark, Babylon, Solomon's temple, a sepulchre of a Persian king formed of a single amethyst, the colossus of Rhodes, the theatre of Heraclea, mentioned also by Bede, Vol. iv. 12, Giles, the Pharus of Alexandria), and the seven of 92