295 
‘‘ Among the literary treasures stored in the Imperial Library at 
Vienna, there is an autograph (unedited) manuscript of our illustrious 
and venerable fellow-countryman, Marianus Scotus, the Chronographer,* 
being a copy of the Epistles of St. Paul, with an interlinear gloss, ap- 
parently an original production of Marianus himself, and a copious mar- 
ginal commentary, consisting of extracts from the Fathers and theolo- 
gical writers popular in his day—a commentary which attests the 
patristic learning and research of that truly eminent man. Harris, in 
his edition of ‘ Ware’s Writers of Ireland,’} notices this Codex; as does 
also Lanigan in his ‘ Ecclesiastical History of Ireland,’ both referring 
to the authority of Lambecius. Lanigan says that those notes of Mari- 
anus, ‘although well worthy of the light, have not, as far as I: know, 
been as yet published’t—a statement in which he merely follows Lam- 
becius, whose words, in reference to this MS. are, that it contains: 
‘Omnes Epistole Sancti Pauli Apostoli, celeberrimi Chronographi Ma- 
riani Scoti, monachi Fuldensis, propria manu, anno 1079, exarate, et 
ab eodem annotationibus marginalibus et interlinearibus, hactenus qui- 
dem nondum editis, editu tamen dignissimis, illustrate : in quarum fine 
hee ipsius legitur subscriptio: Explicit Epistola ad Hebreos, habens 
versus pccc. In honore Individue Trinitatis, Marianus Scottus scripsit 
hune librum suis fratribus peregrinis. Anima ejus requiescat in pace, 
propter Deum devote dicite Amen. xvi. Kal. Junii hodie feria v1. anno 
Domini uixxvnou.’ ”’§ 
The learned and laborious Denis, one of those highly cultivated and 
gifted men whom the dispersion of the old society of the Jesuits threw 
upon the world, and who, in these circumstances, was made chief libra- 
rian in Vienna in the latter part of the last century, has given a more 
detailed analysis of this valuable manuscript.|| In this notice I shall 
mainly follow his guidance, taking care, however, to give the extracts 
exactly as they stand in the manuscript itself. The MS. is a large 
quarto, consisting of 160 folia of vellum; the text in a fine clear hand 
of the eleventh century, in letters of moderate size; the gloss, both 
lineal and marginal, being written in small, delicate characters, but 
evidently by the same pen. Fol. 186 is written only on one side; 
ff. 146 and 154 were cut away to one-half their original size, after 
haying been written, as is manifest from some of the letters on the re- 
maining halves being partly cut away. 
The Codex contains all the Epistles of Saint Paul, strictly according 
to the text of the Vulgate, and in the same order in which they now 
stand in our Bibles, except that, between those to the Colossians and te 
* This is a mistake. The writer, however, errs in company with a host of great 
names. 
+ Ware’s Works, vol. ii., p. 66, Writers. 
f Vol. iv., p. 7. 
§ Comment. de Biblioth. Cs. Vindob. lib. 2, cap. 8, p. 749, old edition. 
|| Denis, Codd. MSS. Theol. Biblioth. Palat., vol. i., p. 1, col. 131. 
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