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II. 



ON THE PSEUDO-AUGUSTINIAN TREATISE, "DE MIEABILIBUS 

 SANCTAE SCEIPTUEAE," WRITTEN IN lEELAND IN THE 

 YEAE 655. 



By M. ESPOSITO, B.A. 



Bead December 9, 1918. Published JIauch 27, 1919. 



Printed among the manifestly spurious works in the various editions of 

 St. Augustine's writings, we find a treatise in thi-ee books, entitled "De 

 Mirabilibus Sanctae Seripturae,"' the last independent edition^ of which was 

 given by the Benedictines of Saint-Maur in 1680. Their text was reprinted 

 in the invaluable " Patrologia Latina"^ of J. P. Migne (1841, 1861, and 1864), 

 whose reprint will be quoted throughout this paper. 



Such as it is, this edition is unsatisfactory. It is practically a reprint of 

 the older editions, with a few variants added from the Eouen MS. Apart 

 from the very poor typography, the text is in places incomprehensible. No 

 attempt has been made to indicate the sources of the work, or to trace, 

 collate, and classify the numerous MSS.^ The present memoir is designed as 

 an aid towards a new and really critical edition of the treatise. May some 

 scholar be found willing to undertake the task ! 



I. — The Manusckipts. 



I shall commence with an enumeration of the Jiss. the existence of which 

 is at present known to me. Further researches will, no doubt, lead to the 

 discovery of others. 



I This is the title given to the work in the Prologue (Ed. col. 2149). The headings 

 in the mss. vary : " De Mirabilibus Teteris et Novi Testamenti," " De Mirabilibus Sacrae 

 Seripturae," "De Mirabilibus Diuinae Seripturae." 



- A list of the earlier editions was given by Reeves (Proc. R.I. Acad., vii, 1861, 

 p. 515 n.), whose memoir will be dealt with further on (p. 199). 



3 Tomus 35, cols. 2149-2200. 



* It does not appear to be possible to discover on what Mss. the editors based their 

 text ; cf. Kukula, Sitz. der Wiener Akad., 138, 1898, Abhl. v, p. 52. They were aware 

 that the older printed editions differed very considerably from the mss. 



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