Stowe MS 8

ZACHARIAS CHRYSOPOLITANUS in unum ex quattuor sive de concordia Evangelistarum: the Concordance to the Gospels, with commentary, of Zacharias of Chrysopolis [variously supposed to be Goldborough in Yorkshire and Besançon in France]. He has recently been identified with Zacharias, " ductor scholarum " at the church of St. Jean de Besançon in 1134 (U. Robert, in the Bibl. de l'École des Charles, vol. xxxiv., 1873, p. 380). Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. clxxxvi. In this MS. ff. 3 b-9 contain the table of " capitula," i.e. the first words of each of the Ammonian sections, with the number of the section and the Eusebian canon to which each belongs. Then follow the table of Eusebian canons (ff. 9b-13), the " preseries Zacharie erisopolitani in unum ex quattuor," beg. "De excellentia evangelii" (ff. 14-21); the preface (the second in Migne) "Matheus cognomento Levi" (f. 21); another preface (the third in Migne) " Unum ex quatuor " (f. 21b), with an additional paragraph, which looks as if it should rather have belonged to the first preface, beg. " Cuique evangelistarum sunt quattuor facies " and ending " comminaciones que malos terrent "; a third preface, being the paragraphs which in Migne follow the table of chapters (coll. 45, 46), beg. " Notum facimus lectori " and ending " hucusque Hieronymus " (f. 22) ; the prologue of St. Luke with the commentary of St. Ambrose and Bede, and the colophon "explicit preseries" (f. 22b). The table of chapters of the first book follows, omitting the "admonitio lectori " prefixed to it in Migne (" Sicut ex creaturis . . . corrigere velint ") ; and the text of the Gospels, with the commentary, begins on f. 23. It concludes with the words " ad diem ascensionis sue," omitting the last clause given in Migne. At the end is a table showing where to find the lessons for the various church festivals (f. 190), and a glossary of the proper names and other "barbarous" words used in the Gospel (f. 191b). Vellum; ff. 194. XVth cent. In double columns of 50 lines. Initials in red and blue; references and titles in red. At the end of the Concordance (f. 189b) is given the name of the scribe, Roger Albon, a Carmelite. Folio.

Zacharias of Chrysopolis: In unum ex quattuor, sive de concordia Evangelistarum: 15th cent.

Bible. Commentaries: Gospel Concordance, with commentary, by Zacharias Chrysopolitanus: 15th cent.

Roger Albon, Carmelite: Wrote: in 15th cent.