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Basel, Uiiiversitatsbiltliotliek. 

 The University Library at Basel is rich in mediaeval Latin MSS. Unfoi- 

 tunately, with the exception of Haenel's very summary index, published in 

 1830,' no printed account of these MSS. has yet appeared. 



1. MS. F. V. 3-3. 



A folio parchment MS., consisting of forty-four unnumbered folios, measur- 

 ing 28^ cms. by '2o\. It is beautifully written in a tenth-century hand, in 

 double columns, with thirty lines to the column. Initial letters and sentences 

 are frequently in red, and there are a few marginal notes and interlinear 

 corrections. The cover is in parchment. 



This important MS. contains the group of scriptural commentaries by 

 Sedulius Scottus, printed by Angelo Mai,- from a MS. in the Vatican (Pala- 

 tinus 242, saec. x/xi).' The same commentaries are also found in the 

 Einsiedeln MS., No. 132, which will be mentioned further on, and in a MS. at 

 Berlin (Phillipps MS., No. 56j.* 



The following is a complete description of the Basel MS., from which it 

 will be seen that Mai's edition is very defective, many arbitrary alterations 

 and omissions having been made in the original text. In an Appendix I have 

 given a full edition of two of these tracts of Sedulius Scottus, one of which, 

 as far as I am aware, has never yet been printed. 



The origin of the Jis. is not known. It formerly belonged to Eemigius 

 Faesch (ob. 1666), whose books and MSS. passed into the possession of tlie 

 Basel Library in 1823.* 



Fol. 1 1'-li \'° : Incipit epistolae Hieronimi ad Damasum papam expla- 

 natio. Beatissimo Papae Damaso Hieronimus. Hie Damasus sedis aposto- 

 licae magnificus praesul Valentiniaai et Theodosii prineipum temporibus 

 floruit, etc. 



Ed. Mai (ap. Migne, Patrol. Lat., 103, cols. 331-348). 



The text of the MS. differs greatly from that of Mai's edition, and is very 

 much fuller. In the edition the tract ends with the words confortatus 

 existit, but in the ms. there is another sentence: Unde conexe ait; Et 

 memineris'^ mei beatissime papa. Illud nimirum latenter intimare volens, 



' Catalogi Libroriim Miinuacriptorum, etc., 1S30, cols. 513-659 ; the total number of uss. in ihe 

 library is variously estimuted at from loOO to 4000 volumes. 



- Scriptorum Veterum Xova CoUectio, torn, ix, 1S37, pp. 159 sq. ; Spicilegium Eomanum, t. is. 

 1843, pp. 29 sq. Mai's editiim was reprinted by Migne (Patrologia Latina, t. 103, col. 271 sq.). 

 On Sedulius Scottus consult Esposito (Herumthena, xiv, 1907, p. 534 ; xv, 1909, p. 360). 



^ Cf. De Rossi, Codices Palatini Latini Bibliolhecae Vaticanae, t. i, 1886, p. 59. 



' Cf. U.ise, Die Handschiiften-Verzeichnisse der K. Bibliothek zu Berlin, Bd. 12, 1893, p. 104. 



* Haenel, Catalogi, etc., col. 614. 



' me minelis cod. 



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