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of St. Jerome by an Irish monk Josephus Scottus, a disciple of Aleuin, like 

 whom he emigrated to France about 790, and died there before 804 (Esposito, 

 Hei'mathena, xiv, 1907, p. 523, and xv, 1909, p. 360). This commentary, 

 which in Scherrer's catalogue (Verzeichuiss, etc., p. 95) is wrongly attributed 

 to Bede, has not yet been printed. It is also found in a ninth-century MS. at 

 Paris, No. 12154, fol. 1-192. To each of the eighteen books into which the 

 work is diWded is prefixed a hexameter, and in addition there are sets of 

 verses at the beginning and end. These verses ha\e been edited by 

 Diimmler (Mon. Germ. Hist., Poetae Latini Aevi Medii, i, 1881, pp. 149-151) 

 from both the MSS. Diimmler has also given (loo. cit., p. 151) from the Paris 

 .MS., fol. 1 92 r°, the closing prose epistle, which, together with some of the 

 Hnal hexametere, is wanting in the St. Gallen MS., p. i?52. 



Several acrostic poems which are found in a MS. at Bern, and which liavc 

 for their author the same Josephus Scottus, will be dealt with later on. 



P. 252-255 : In another hand : Incipit de valetudine et obitu venerabilis 

 Bedae prosbytori. Muiiusculum quod misisti, etc. On p. 253, col. 1, lines 

 6-11, is written an Anglo-Saxon poem in the Northumbrian dialect said to 

 have been repeated by Bede on his death-bed. It has been printed by 

 Hattemer (Denkmnhle des Mittolalters, St. Gallen, 1844, torn, i, p. 4), and by 

 Sweet (The Oldest English Texts, 1885, p. 149) ; cf. also Whitley Stokes 

 (The Academy, xxx., 1886, p. 228). 



P. 255 : Epitaphium beati Bedani presbyteri. In 21 hexameters. 

 Printed by JIabillon (Vetera Aiialecta, iv, 1685, p. 521). 



P. 255-256 : Ymnua. Ardens amori.s mentio caeli in arce 



condita. In ten lines. It will be found in Mabillon (loc. cit., p. 522). 



Then follows another poem in ten lines : Hie legentes, octo pes sunt 



raetra, clare cemerc Uni ac trine deo sit summa semper gloria. 



Printcil by Huemer (Wiener Studien, ii, 1880, p. 73). 



At tiie end in lai-ge letters : vi. Idas Mai. Nat. Sancti Bedae Presbyteri. 



4. MS. No. 274. 



A small folio parchment MS., consisting of sixty-six pages, written in single 

 columns, in a ninth-centui-y hand. Titles and initial letters are in red. The 

 MS. is mentioned in the ancient catalogue of the year 1461 (Scherrer, 

 Verzeichuiss, etc., p. 104 ; Weidmann, Geschichte der Bibliothek von St. 

 Gallen, 1846, p. 406). This MS. contains a few sentences by Joannes Scottus 

 Eriugcna on the Cat^oriea of Aristotle, whicli have not yet been printed 

 (Esposito, Hermathena, xv, 1909, p. .362). I give these sentences in full 

 below. 



P. 1-3 : Blank. 



