Manuscripts.
I. At the
Vatican
.
(
α
)
Of the
Sermons
. (1) Codd. 3835 and 6 are two volumes in Roman
Character of a Lectionary of about the 8th century; the second volume
contains the “Tome” (which in the 8th and 9th centuries
used to be read in the Church offices before Christmas):
(2) 3828, a parchment (10th century), also a lectionary:
(3) 1195, a parchment folio (11th century), a lectionary
containing
inter alia
some of Leo’s homilies:
(4) 1267, 8 and 9 of the same character (11th century):
(5) 1270 contains the Sermon
de Festo Petri cathedræ
,
(now xiv. in Migne’s Appendix), from which Cacciari restored
Quesnel’s imperfect edition of it to its present state:
(6) 1271 and 2 are also lectionaries: (7) 4222 in
Lombardic characters (9th century), a lectionary: (8) 5451
in Roman characters (12th century), a lectionary: (9) 6450
parchment (12th century): a lectionary containing the sermon
de Festo Petri cathedræ
in the form found and printed by
Quesnel; (10) 6451 similar: it contains sermons
de
Quadragesima
and others: (11) 6454 similar.
(
β
) Of the
Letters
: these are mostly rather later (i.e. about 12th or
13th century): but (1) 1322 is of an older date, and
contains besides the epistles, all the acts of the Council of
Chalcedon: (2) 5759 is earlier than the 9th century; it
used to belong to the monastery of S. Columban at Bobbio, and contains
31 letters: (3) 5845 is very ancient, and according to
Cacciari, Lombardic: it contains 24 letters.
(
γ
)
Letters and Sermons together
: of these there are nine
collections in the Vatican, of which 548 and 9 contain the
sermon
de Absalom
which is condemned by
Cacciari. The
Regio-Vaticanus codex
139 is a fine
collection of Leo’s works (12th century).
II.
At other places
: (1)
The codex
Urbinas
65 is thought to be a copy of the
Regio-Vaticanus 139 made in the 14th century.
(2) Codex
Grimanicus
14
is a
ms.
on which
Quesnel lays great stress: Quesnel assigns it to the ninth
century; it contains 107 letters, of which 28 had never been printed
before Quesnel.
(3) The
Thuanei
; (
α
) 129 contains 123 letters:
(
β
) 780 contains the
Tome: (
γ
) 729
contains the spurious
de vocatione gentium
and some
epistles.
(4) The
Corbeienses
are
old.
(5) The
Taurinensis
29 D. iv. is a
fine 13th-century
ms.
containing 52
letters.
(6) The
Florentinus codex
belongs to
the 13th century also.
(7)
Ratisbonensis
113 DD. AA., in the
monastery of S. Emeramus, contains 72 letters: it is said to date
from about 750
a.d.
(8) The two
Bergonenses
are of 12th
century, and contain 12 sermons.
(9) Two
Chigiani
also of 12th century contain 4 sermons.
(10) The
Padilironenses
contain 9
sermons and the Tome.
(11) There are three
Patavini
, of
which two contain the Tome.
(12)
Vallicellani
: these are a
number of 11th or 12th-century codices.
There are also the
Veneti
, the
Vercellenses
, the
Veronenses
, &c.
N.B. The foregoing account is taken from
Schönemann’s
Notitia Historico-Literaria
(1794), and the translator has no means of knowing whether it is
still correct (1890).
14
Grimanus
, from
whom this Codex is named, was Cardinal of S. Mark, &c., in the 16th
century.