¹ On Bartholomew see Th. Disdier, M. in DHGE 6 (1932) 1034f. Additional to Disdier's bibliography: Denifle, H., O.P., Ergänzungen zu … Luther und Luthertum I: Quellenbelege (Mainz 1905) 195-197: Perini, D. A., Bibliographia Augustiniana …: Scriptores Itali I (Florence 1929) 203-205; Arbesmann, R., O.S.A. and W. Hümpfner, O.S.A. (edd.), Jordani de Saxonia … Liber Vitasfratrum (New York 1943) 239, 475f., and other refs, listed in the Index, p. 354 (to which add xxiv, xxvi); Arbesmann,’ Outstanding Augustinian Humanists,’ The Tagastan 10 (Washington 1947) 101-112 (esp. 102f.); Fitzpatrick, V. J., M.S.SS.T., Bartholomaeus of Urbino: The Sermons Embraced in his ‘Milleloquium Augustini’, S. (unpublished M.A. diss., The Catholic University of America, Washington 1954), where Chaps. II and III deal generally with Bartholomew and the Milleloquium.Google Scholar

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³ The opinion advanced by Disdier. DHGE 6.1034. Others hold that it was Clement's admiration for the Milleloquium that decided him: perhaps first to express this opinion was Petrarch, Fam. 8.6.2 (ed. Rossi, V. [cit. infra n. 20] II 173).Google Scholar

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⁶ Father Fitzpatrick lists more than thirty MSS (Barth. Urb. [cit. supra n. 1] 39-41) and nine or ten additional are enumerated by Ministeri, P. B. (op. cit. infra n. 44), 223f.Google Scholar

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¹⁶ This edition has been available only in selected pages reproduced on microfilm from a copy in the Bibl. Nat.; for the reproduction I am grateful to the kind offices of Gilbert Ouy, M., of the Cabinet des manuscrits. Of the book itself I know no copy in the U.S.A.Google Scholar

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¹⁹ Here, as for the variants reported infra n. 32, the text given in the Vattasso-Franchi de’ Cavalieri catalogue has been followed. Too late to avail myself of the fact, I note, from Manuscripta 1.1 (April 1954) 3, that a microfilm of this MS and of its mate, Vat. lat. 518, is owned by the Vatican Manuscript Depository of the Knights of Columbus Foundation, St. Louis University.Google Scholar

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³⁰ Father Arbesmann (in The Tagastan 10.102f. [cf. supra n. 1]) does indeed refer to de Nolhac, but his necessarily brief treatment does not amount to a correction. Sabbadini, Scoperte 164, Burdach loc. cit. (infra n. 33), and Rossi loc. cit. (infra n. 35) all show full awareness of the significance of de Nolhac's find.Google Scholar

³¹ A shorter but substantially equivalent termination is found in MS Vat. lat. 519 (cit. supra at n. 19), fol. 544^rb (according to the Vattasso-Franchi de’ Cavalieri catalogue). — De Nolhac's report of his discovery was first given in the Mélanges Havet, J. (Paris 1895) 481–483; it was repeated in his Pétrarque et l'humanisme (new ed. Paris 1907) II 297f.Google Scholar

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³⁷ Other MSS of the Milleloquium prologue must be controlled before a safe conjecture can be made. Possibly P ¹, with its 8½ foot hexameter, is unique.Google Scholar

³⁸ There is no need here to give a longer treatment of FL. In the Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 26 (1927) 211–213 (part of the study ‘A travers les Manuscripts de Bâle’ [175–249]), Dom Germain Morin, O.S.B., analyzed the work and printed the 4-line verse prologue, the prose prologue, and the index capitum; his sources were four MSS of Basel (saec. XIII-XIV). Later, as Dr. Hunt, R. W. graciously informed me, Dom André Wilmart, O.S.B., in his Auteurs spirituels et textes dévots du moyen âge (Paris 1932) 453 n. 3, extended the list of MSS (enumerating 11 in English libraries [for Cambr., Trin. Coll. 146 read 164], 7 on the Continent) and listed various titles under which the work is known. Wilmart concludes that the work was composed in the thirteenth century at the latest ‘pour les besoins des écolâtres.’ Morin (p. 185) declared that the work circulated ‘dès le XI^e/XII^e siècle’ in the region of Constance and St. Gall. If the Flores Augustini cited in an 11th/12th-cent. catalogue of Petershausen is our FL, then the earlier date is indeed established. But are we sure of the identity? Among actual MSS the oldest among those reported by Morin and Wilmart is Reims 549 (saec. XIII). — The ascription to Bede of the prefatory verses (perfect, dissylabic end rhymes and all) and of the prose prologue, found in the Oriel College MS, is far from universal. If Bede wrote the prose prologue, he compiled the whole florilegium, since the prologue gives a close analysis of the work. There seems to be little or nothing to support such an attribution —no more, indeed, than there is to support the attribution to him of the compilation from Augustine made in the ninth century by Florus of Lyons. For this Bede-Florus confusion, see Laistner, M. L. W. (with the collaboration of King, H. H.), A Hand-list of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca 1943) 37f. To Professor Laistner and to his colleague, Professor Charles Jones, W., I am indebted for kind assistance in the matter of FL.Google Scholar

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⁴⁴ The dates here given are those argued for by Ministeri, P. B.,’ De Augustini de Ancona O.E.S.A. († 1328) vita et operibus,’ Analecta Augustiniana 22 (1951/52) 7-56, 145-262 (see esp. 56). The traditional dates: 1240/3-1328.Google Scholar

⁴⁵ The tradition is recorded by Triumphus’ younger contemporary, Jordanus of Saxony, Liber Vitasfratrum 2.22 (ed. Arbesmann-Hümpfner, p. 239): ‘Item ipse incepit solemnem compilationem de dictis sancti Augustini… Quam studiosus vir frater Bartholomaeus de Urbino ulterius prosecutus est et complevit ac Milleloquium appellavit.’Google Scholar

⁴⁶ The problem may not have seemed of interest to Padre Ministeri (cf. n. 44), who, in any event, does nothing with it in dealing (223f.) with the Milleloquium of Triumphus. The MSS listed appear to be simply MSS of the Milleloquium as completed by Bartholomew; even so, the new items are most welcome. (As for printed editions, it is not clear why of the Brescia edition of 1734 only coll. 1-955 should be called to the reader's attention.) In this connection Padre Ministeri makes no mention of what appears to be a genuinely pertinent document for determining the relation of Triumphus to the completed Milleloquium: Flores Beati Augustini, seu Milleloquium ex scriptis Augustini, S. auctore Augus tino Triumpho Anconitano…, MS Florence, Laur. 13.15 (saec. XIV), fol. 1-177 (cited by Perini, Bibl. Aug. IV [Florence 1937] 25), though (p. 170) fol. 178-256 are cited as containing Triumphus’ Tractatus de amore Spiritus Sancti. — Work has been begun at the Catholic University of America to determine the relation of the Laurentian Flores to the completed Milleloquium. Google Scholar

⁴⁷ (Orleans 1752; anastatic reprint Rome 1927) I 250. The Carmelites of Whitcfriars Hall, Washington, kindly consulted for me their copy of the Bibliotheca. Google Scholar

⁴⁸ The hymn is Chevalier 10443/4 (not later than saec. XV); in the Monastic Breviary it is appointed for March 21. — Dom Guéranger gives the text under that date in the Lenten volume of his Année liturgique. Google Scholar

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⁵² In Ferreri's own text, however, we can only be surprised at the indicative used in the indirect question introduced by ‘memoret quis unquam?’ (21f., notes). If Ferreri meant the ‘quot’ sentence to be exclamatory and ‘memoret quis unquam?’ parenthetical, then his printer served him badly.Google Scholar