EsroSM'o — Uibcrno-Ldiin MSxi. In. the Librdrica o I' Switzerland. ()0 



Ed. Mai (Migno, 10:-!, cols. 271-272). 



As this tract is very short, and as Mai's edition of it is practically 

 worthless, I have given it in full in the Appendix. 



Fol. 31 vo-oS r" : Incipit in argumentum secundum Marcum eiusdeni 

 Sedulii expositiuncula. Hoc argumentum genus et officium electioneni 

 quoque Marci ovangelistae prima sui parte declarat, secunda intentionem 

 eiusdem evangelistae in scribendo Christi evangelio subtili argumentationc 

 ostendit, etc. 



Ed. Mai (Migne, lO.S, cols. 279-286). 



Here again Mai has made many arbitrary alterations and omissions in 

 the text. 



Fol. 38 r° : Finit expositiuncula Scotti Sedulii in argumentum secundum 

 Marcum. 



Fol. 38 r°-43 v° : Incipit eiusdem explanatiuncula in argumentum 

 secundum Lucam. In argumentis evangelicis haec praecipue nobis sunt 

 attendenda, quod et sermonis brevitas sensuumque clandestina subtilitas in 

 eisdem scintilla recernitur. Unde nostrum terpens ingenium ex inertiae 

 somnio' suscitant. Et ante introitum doctrinae evangelicae nos exercitatiores 

 evigilantioresque reddunt, ne lippidulis fortasse oculis pedibusque sensuum 

 titubantibus prata dominica segniter incedamus, sed illustrata mentis acie 

 florida Christi rura coruscis praecedentibus luceruis percurramus. Quid 

 etenim sunt argumenta evangelica nisi quaedam caelestium thesaurorum 

 praevenientes lampades, simul et aureae claves gazas reserautes dominicas. 



In huius itaque argument! exordio, etc., simul et inquisitoribus 



aliquam conferre utilitatem videremur. 



Ed. Mai (Migne, 103, cols. 286-290). 

 As in all the other tracts, the text of the MS. is very dillerent from Mai's 

 edition and much fuller. FoUo 43 is slightly defective at the top. 



Fol. 44 r" : An index to the contents of the MS., now partly illegible. 

 Fol. 44 v": A prayer : Pater noster, etc., now partly illegible. 



2. MS. 0. IV. 34. 



A small quarto parchment MS. consisting of 90 numbered folios measuring 

 21j cms. by 14-^. It is written in a twelfth-century hand in single columns 

 with 30 lines to the page. Initial letters are sometimes coloured in red and 

 blue. There are a few marginal notes in a fifteenth-centuiy hand. 



Tliis MS. contains the commentary by Joannes Scottus Eriugena' on the 



' sommo cod. 



-On this writer and his works consult Esposito, Hermiilhenn, .\iv., 1907, )>ii. •'>2-'), .521 ; xv. 

 1909, p. 361. 



