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Celestial Hierarchy of the rseudo-Dionysiiis. It was published by Floss iu 

 1853 (ap. Migne, Patrol. Lat., 122, cols. 125-266), to whom the existence of 

 this MS. was apparently quite unknown. The text of the MS. agrees on the 

 whole well with the edition of Floss. 



Fol. 1 r°-90 v° : Incipiunt expositiones Johannis Scoti super lerachias 

 sancti Dyonisii. Sancti Dyonisii Ariopagitae primus liber, qui inscripbitur 

 de celesti ierachia, XV ta capitulorum serie contexitur, quorum primi titulus 

 est, etc., . . . thiraOt'un sunt, id est constantiae tres secundum Stoicos, 

 voluntas, gaudium, cautio, et uon nisi in animo. In this MS., as indeed in all 

 the othere at present known, a large portion of the text — from the beginning 

 of chapter iii to the middle of chapter vii — is wanting (of. the ed. of Floss, 

 col. 176). The break occurs on fol. 33 v", without any indication, the text 

 ninning on continuously. No doubt all our existing MSS. of this work are 

 ultimately derived from the same mutilated archetype. 



3. MS. 0. iii. 5. 



An octavo parcliment MS. consisting of 124 unnumbered folios measuring 

 21i cms. by 13|. It is written in a twelfth-century hand in single columns 

 with 35 lines to the page. There are a few illuminations and some marginal 

 notes. The cover is wanting. 



Among other things this MS. contains the translation of the Celestial 

 Hierarchy of the Pseudo-Dionysius by Joannes Scottus, published by Floss 

 (Migne, 122, cols. 1029-1070). 



Traube has re-edited the poems prefixed to this work (Mon. Germ. Hist., 

 Poetae Latini Aevi Medii, iii, 1896, pp. 518 sq.). Neither Floss nor 

 Traube mentions this MS. In his edition Traube (loc. cit., p. 525) has divided 

 the codices of this translation into three groups, the " Franco-Gallic," the 

 Italic, and the Gennanic. The Basel MS. (like the Bern MS., No. 19, to be 

 mentioned later on) belongs clearly to the fir.st or " Franco-Gallic " group, as 

 it preserves the letter of Anastasius, and has the correct form Eriugena for 

 the con-upt lerugena of the Italic and Germanic groups. 



Fol. 1 r* : Dionisius Johanni evangelistae. Saluto te sacrani animani, 

 dilectissime, et est michi hoc apud te supra apostolos inseparabilius. Ave 



vera dilectissime, etc traditum et memoria custodi tuorum. 



This is Joannes' translation of the tenth letter of the Pseudo-Dionysius. 



Ed. Floss (Migne, 122, cols. 1123-1124). 



At the bottom of the page is written in a later hand : Liber sanctae 

 Mariae in valle sancti Petri. 

 Fol. 1 V : blank. 



