EsposiTO — Hiherno- Latin MSS. in the Libraries of Switzerland. 3 



ap. Corp. Script. Eceles. Lat. Vindob., torn. 24; Manitius, Geschichte der 

 Christlich-Lateinischen Poesie bis zin-Mitte des S Jabrhunderts, 1891, pp. 379, 

 481). 



Besides the lost St. Bertiuus Jis., the text of which has been preserved by 

 Du Chesne and Frobenius, and which I shall designate by the letter B in the 

 variant readings,' three MSS. have thus preserved the poem of Laurentius for 

 us : — M, the Maihingen sis. of saee. vi/vii, fol. lv°, apparently written by 

 Laurentius himself.^ It was formerly preserved in the monastery of Saint- 

 Arnoul at Metz. For a description see the memoirs of Wattenbach, Bartsch, 

 and Diimmler quoted above. I give the readings of this MS. from the edition 

 of Bartsch, that of Diimmler not being available to me. 



P, Poitiers, Bibliotheque de la Ville, MS. No. 17. A splendidly written 

 uncial MS. of saec. viii/ix. The Jis. employed by Dom Pitra. A full descrip- 

 tion of it has been given in the Catalogue general des Manuscrits des 

 Bihliotheques PvMiques dc France, Dipartements, t. 25, Paris, 1894, pp. 4-5. 

 The poem of Laurentius occurs on fol. 26 r". This MS., which formerly bore 

 the number 174, contains the four Gospels and is elaborately illuminated. 



T, the Ziirich MS., Turicensis C. 68, saec. IX. ex., fol. 2 r°-2 \°, which had 

 not hitherto been collated. 



KAiCON EUA^'GELIOIIUM.^ 



In nomine divino trino atque uno.* 



i. Quam in primo' speciosa" quadriga 

 Homo, leo, uitulus et aquila, 

 Ixxi. Septuaginta' unum' per' capitula,'" 

 De Domino conloqimtur" paria. 



ii. In secundo subsequente'' protinus'^ 5 



Homo, leo, loquitur et uitulus, 

 Quibus inest ordinate positus 

 cviiii. Centum in se''' atque nouem numerus. 



' I quote from the edition of Frobenius. 



= M. Berger (Histoire de la Vulgate, 1893, pp. 52, 393) assigns this Ms;, to the beginning of 

 saec. viii, and identifies Laurentius with tlie scribe of the celebrated Martyrology of Echtemach ; see 

 also "Wattenbach (Neues Arohiv, etc., xii, 1887, p. 234). 



2 Title only in M. * This line is only in P. ^prima P ; imprimis B ; inprimis T. 



"^pretiosaP; spetiosa T. ' lxs M. « ^hq P. '' et P. '"capitulo ?. 



" collo(iuuntur B ; conloquuntur paria de Domino P ; conloquuntur de dno paria T. 



'- subsequenter T ; subsequuntur B ; ^^ protenus P. 



1* decim in se P ; decem ipse T ; decimus B. 



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