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20

25

de eo quod quia C1 C2 C7.

4-5 si...ex nihilo ut reuertar ad eum qui me fecit qui creavit qui me ex nihilo C1 C2 C7.

6 multum tempus] multo tempore C1.

7-9 tempus...uidere iam tempus resolutionis [solutionis C2;] meae instat quia cupio dissolui et esse cum Christo C1 C2 C7. 9 utilitatis...nostram om C1 C2 C7.

12 magister...descripta Adhuc una sententia magister dilecte non est descripta C1 C2 C7.

12-14 at ille...scribe Et ille scribit inquit cito C At inquit scribe cito C2.

13-14 et...est om C7.

13-15 modo...dixisti Modo sententia descripta est. At ille inquit Bene ueritatem dixisti, consummatum est C2.

13-16 modo....me Modo sententia descripta est et opus consummatum. Et ille Bene, ait, dixisti, consummatum est. Iam nunc caput meum manibus paulisper sustentans erige, multum quippe......C1. 14 bene om C7.

18 decantans decumbens atque post orationem decantans C1. 19-20. et...spiritum Et cum spiritum sanctum uocauit suum 30 e corpore exalauit ultimum C2 C7.

35

cum spiritum sanctum nominasset suum e corpore exhalans spiritum C1.

20-23 atque...portaretur Ac sic regna migrauit ad celestia C2 C7 ad regna emisit celestia C1.

23 audiere uel om C1.

23-24 obitum...nostri beati patris obitum C1 C2 C7.

24 alium ullum alium C2 C7.

ad gloriam dei cecinit cecinit spiritualia C2 C7 in dei laudem cecinit C1.

28 et expansis manibus expansisque in altum manibus C'.

29 scire...possunt scito autem frater karissime quod multa [de eo add. C1 C2] possum narrare C1 C2 C7.

30 nunc om C1 C2 C7.

meae om C1 C2 C7.

31-33 attamen...presbyteri om C2 C7.

Vale. Explicit epistola de transitu uenerabilis Bede presbiteri

et Giruensis monachi C1.

P 179 I MAXIME AVTEM IN VERBO QVOD DIXERAT QVIA cet acts

12 VNA sententia added from C7, as necessary to the sense.
13 MODO 'now'.

33 BEDANI the way in which this word has come into the text as the name of Beda is perhaps as follows. In the original from which this copy was made there occurred the Saxon genitive Bedan (see p 180 1 2) and the scribe not knowing what to make of it gave it a Latin termination and inflexion.

P 1827 HOLOSERICAM AD RELIQVIAS P 159 1 1.

P 183 11 DISCENDI STVDIVM p 171 l 15. p 1841 14.

P 185 5 CVTHBERTVM P 176–179.

Р

7 IV FERIA ID EST VIII KAL IVN Wedn 25 May 735 cf p 176

25 ALTER ORBIS so the abp of Canterbury was called alterius orbis papa.

P 186 7 RESVLTARENT 'differed from,' 'were opposed to' the doctrine of the church.

MONIA]

P 186 24 ALIQVA = ulla.

COLLATIONS.

P 188 3 CVI a disyllable, as in Mart and Iuuen.

409

P 189 9 LXII should be 63, for Bede was 59 in 731. Many additions might be made to the medieval notices of Beda e g Roger de Wendover 5 I 220-223 ed Coxe: Beda, uir uenerabilis et mente semper caelestis, caeli palatia conscendit; qui diuina uirtute praeditus sua et aliorum uitia compescens dignus est ut in aeterna memoria habeatur... promeruit ut ab uniuersali ecclesia doctor Anglorum et pater uenerabilis merito et nomine

ΙΟ

censeatur.

P 191 TO FLORES SANCTORVM Hierome Porter the flowers of the lives of the most renowned saincts of the three kingdoms (Doway 1632 4to) 523-534, who gives an engraving of Beda preaching.

23 NOT ONE SINGLE MIRACLE yet see p 184 1 28 29.

EXCURSUS I

LITERATURE OF EARLY BRITISH AND
IRISH CHURCH HISTORY

IT

is still true, as in Warburton's time, that our only church historians are 'the jester Fuller and Collier the nonjuror.' The 'annals' of 5 Alford, following the method of Baronius, are now of little intrinsic value; Ussher's antiquitates on the other hand may still be consulted with profit. Soames is a polemic, far less instructive than his Romish rivals: The history and antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon church by John Lingard, London 1858 2 vols; The church of our fathers, as seen in 10 St Osmund's rite for the cathedral of Salisbury, with dissertations on the belief and ritual in England before and after the coming of the Normans, by Daniel Rock, London 1849-1853 3 vols in 5 parts. See now especially W Bright 'chapters of early English church history Oxford 1878.' A few pages in Kemble's Saxons in England contain the most 15 trustworthy account extant; something too may be gleaned from Freeman's Norman conquest. Much valuable material still lurks in manu

script in the libraries of London, Rome, Oxford, Cambridge, Lambeth, York, Durham, and many others, public and private (some of which the 'historical mss commission' is for the first time bringing to light). 20 A few important mss (including the collections of Wharton, Hutton, Kennett) and printed books are registered in the preface to 'registrum sacrum Anglicanum by W Stubbs, Oxford 1858.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY Cave, Fabricius-Mansi, Brunet, Grässe. TD Hardy 'descriptive catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Bri- 25 tain and Ireland' (in the Rolls' series of chronicles and memorials). Aug Potthast bibliotheca hist med aeui Berlin 1862 and suppl 1868. Ri Sims manual for the genealogist, topographer, antiquary, London 1856 pp 416-427. O'Curry lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history Dublin 1861. Preface to 'monumenta hist Brit.' 30

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T Wright 'biographia Brit lit.' Chevalier (see above pp 200 201). The catalogues of CJ Stewart (bookseller of King William Str Strand) are valuable to the church historian.

HISTORIES OF SEES catalogued by Sims; by far the most exhaustive 5 is Fasti Eboracenses by James Raine, vol 1 1863. Dr Todd's annotated copy of Ware is in the Cambridge library. County (and other local) histories often throw much light on church matters. WR W Stevens the South-Saxon see 1876.

CHRONOLOGY Jaffé regesta pontificum Rom (down to AD 1198) 10 Berl 1851 4to; with the continuation (to 1304) by Potthast ib 1874-5 2 vols.

BIOGRAPHY the acta sanctorum of the Bollandists; the histories of monastic orders (cf Jul Petzholdt bibliotheca bibliographica, Leipzig 1866, 156–166); the national biographies, eg the Dutch one of. van der 15 Aa. W J Rees lives of the Cambro-British saints of the fifth and succeeding centuries London 1853. Bp Forbes kalendars of Scottish saints Edinb 1872 4to. Birch fasti monastici aeui Saxonici Lond. 1872. S Butcher, the ecclesiastical calendar, its theory and construction 1877 4to. JB Mullinger the schools of Charles the Great 1877. The 'dic20 tionary of christian biography,' of which vol 1 (A–D) lately appeared, is often superior to the Romish 'Kirchen-Lexikon' of Welte and Wetzer, and to the Protestant Real-Encyclopädie of Herzog (of which the 2nd ed is now in progress).

LAWS Thorpe ancient laws and institutes of England 1840 1 vol fol 25 or 2 vols 8vo. Reinh Schmid die Gesetze der Angelsachsen Leipzig 1858.

COUNCILS ed Spelman, Wilkins, Haddan-Stubbs (I II (1) III have as yet appeared). John Johnson a collection of all the ecclesiastical laws, canons etc concerning the government of the church of England 30 London 1720 2 vols (esp Baron's ed in Anglo-Cath Library).

MONASTERIES Dugdale's monasticon and local supplements (as Dr Olliver's mon Exoniense).

EPISCOPAL REGISTERS the Durham register, edited in the Rolls' series, should be completed, and followed by all other early registers. 35 The surplus of confiscated church property might supply funds for printing all the registers and other documents of the Irish sees, while there yet remain scholars in the country.

WORKS OF BRITISH AND IRISH AUTHORS Migne's patrologia includes nearly all that was accessible at the date of printing the several