E.sposii'o — niherno-Latin M8H. In I he Libraries ol Swilzerland. 7-'» 



J. MS. JSio. 433. 



A large folio ms., consisting of 708 parchment pages, splendidly written 

 in a ninth-centnry liand in double cohunns with 27 or 28 lines to the column. 

 There are many ilhiminations. A full list of the contents is given by 

 Scherrer (Verzeichniss, etc., p. 142). 



Pages G85 to 706 contain the scriptural \\o\\\ of Aileranus Scottus,' 

 published from this ms. by Fleming in 1667, whose edition was reprinted by 

 Migne (Patrol. Lat., 80, cols. 327-342). The end is wanting in this ms., but 

 can be supplied from a ms. in the Imperial Library at Vienna. - 



P. 685 : Ailerani Scotti Interpretatio Mystica Progenitorum Domini 

 Jesu Christi. In Nativitate Sanctae Genitricis Ipsius Legenda. Oportunum 



videtur de nominibus genealogiae, etc., exemplis sacrae scrip turae 



asseruimus. 



P. 694 : item Moralis Explanatio eorundem uominum ab eodem 

 compilata.. Oportunum quoque nunc videtur ut eiusdem genealogiae 

 nomina, etc., ... [P. 706] in Azor ut adiuvante Domino 



The rest is lost. A number of words are omitted in the printed edition, 

 and the orthography of the ms. has been frequently altered. 



2. MS. No. 776. 



A quarto paper ms. copied by Gallus Kemli (d, c. 1477), described by 

 Scherrer (Verzeichniss, etc., p. 257). 



P. 163-168 : The same work of Aileranus Scottus copied from MS. 

 No. 433. 



3. MS. No. 254. 



A folio parchment MS. consisting of 256 pages, measuring 29 cms. by 

 23 cms., written in double columns with 25 lines to the column in a ninth- 

 century hand. Titles and initial letters are in red. This MS. is mentioned 

 in the ninth-century catalogue of the books at St Galleu, published by 

 Weidmann (Geschichte der Bibliothek von St. Gallen, 1846, p. 373), and 

 also in the catalogue of the year 1461 (Weidmann, loc. cit., pp. 409 and 

 236). 



P. 2-252 : Isaiae brevibus lector mysteria verbis, etc., Octavo 



decimo sit terminus iste libello. 



This is the commentary on Isaiah compiled from the well-kuown work 



' Cf. Esposito, Hermiithoiiii, .\iv, I'jo;, p. 022, iind .\v, I'.KCJ, p. 3.')9. 



- Cod Membr. Theol. cix, or, as it is now numbered, No. 740, of the tenth century (cf. Denis, 

 Codices Manuscripti Theologici Bibliotliecue Paliitiuae Viiidoboncnsis, i, pt. 1, 1705, col. 294 ; 

 Tiibulae Codieum Vitidoboncnsiuni, i, 1861, p. 124). 



