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CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS of Iohannes Cassianus and Leo the Great against the Nestorian and Eutychian heresies, S. Anselm against Roscelinus, and other works, viz. .1 Brief life of Cassianus, without title. Taken from Honorius of Autun, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, cap. lx (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxii. 217, cf. also Gennadius de Scr. Eccl. cap. lxi). Beg. 'Cassianus natus serta Constantinopolim (sic, for natione Scytha, Constantinopoli)'. f. 3.

2. Libri septem 'Cassiani presbyteri [de Incarnatione Christi Iesu] contra Nestorium' (Migne, l. 9). With prefatory letter to Leo, Archdeacon of Rome, afterwards Pope Leo I. Preface beg. 'Absolutis iam dudum collationum spiritalium libellis'; text, 'Tradunt fabule poetarum'. f. 3.

3. Correspondence of Pope Leo I (440-461) concerning the Eutychian and other heresies : eight letters printed in Leonis Magni Epistolae, ib. liv. Seven of them also occur in the Pseudisidorian collection, ib. cxxx. Analyses are prefixed. Contents:-(a) Pope Leo to Flavianus, Bishop of Constantinople (ep. xxiii, ib. liv.

731). Dat. 'xii Kal. Maii (sic, for Mart.), Protegente uu. cc. cum ss. (sic, for Asturio et Protogene uu. cc. coss. sc. 18 Feb., A.D. 449). Beg. 'Dilectissimo, &c. Cum Christianissimus et clementissimus'. 55;-(b) 'Rescriptum Flauiani', but according to the Patrology editors really earlier in date than the preceding (the versio antiquior of ep. xxii, ib. 727). Beg. 'Domino beatissimo, &c. Nulla res diaboli uenena compesit'. f. 55 b;-(c) 'Rescriptum Leonis ad Flauianum' (ep. xxviii, ib. 755). There are two other editions of this letter in the Patrology, viz. lii. 71 and lxii. 503. Dat. 'Idus Iunii, Asterio et Protogene uu. cc. coss. era .cccc.lxxxxvi (sic, for 13 June, A.D. 449)'. Beg.'Dilectissimo fratri, &c. Lectis dilectionis uestre litteris quas miramur fuisse tam seras'. f. 56b;-(d) Pope Leo to Julian, Bishop of Cos (ep. xxxv, ib. 803). Dat. 'Id. Iun. Asterio et Protogene uu. cc. coss.' (13 June, 449). Beg. ' Dilectissimo fratri, &c. Licet per eos quos ab urbe direximus'. f. 61;-(e) Eusebius, Bishop of Milan, and other bishops in synod to Pope Leo, n.d. [451] (ep. xcvii, ib.

945). Beg. 'Dominosuo, &c. Reuersis domino annuente fratribus'. f. 61;-(f) Ravennius [Bishop of Arles 449- 455] and other bishops in synod to Pope Leo, n. d. [451?] (ep. xcix, ib. 966). Beg. 'Domino uere sancto, &c. Perlata ad nos epistola'. f. 62;-(g) Pope Leo 'uniuersis episcopis [al. monachis] per Palestinam con. stitutis', n.d. [circ. 453] (ep. cxxiv, ib. 1061). Beg. 'Sollicitudini mee, quam uniuersali ecclesie'. f. 63;-

(h) Pope Leo to the [Eastern] Emperor Leo I, enclosing the extracts following (i), n. d. [458] (ep. clxv, ib. 1155). Beg. 'Promisisse me memini'. f. 66;-(i) Extracts from the fathers collected by Pope Leo in refutation of the Eutychian heresy (ib.). Beg. 'Unum hoc immobile fundamentum'. The rubric at the beginning is wanting. f. 69b.

4. 'Liber magistri Anselmi de incarnatione uerbi': the Liber de Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi of S. Anselm (ib. clviii. 261). Begins (wanting the first preface) with the letter to Urban III, 'Domino et patri, &e. Quoniam diuina prudentia'. f. 74.

5. Extracts on the sacrament of the altar, from the fathers from Hilarius to Augustine. Beg. (Ambrose de Sacr. vi. i) 'Sicut uerus deus est dei filius'. f. 83 b.

6. 'Incipit Hylarii de essentia patris et filii contra hereticos': the abridgement from the books De Trinitate which is noticed in Migne, x. 887. Beg. 'Loquitur Euangelium Qui non honorificat'. f. 87.

7. At the end is added, in a late 13th cent. charter. hand, a letter from Philippus, Prior of the Dominicans in the Holy Land, to the Prior and convent of Paris. The greater part of this is identical with the letter from the same writer to Gregory IX given by Matthew Paris under the year 1237 (Chronica Maiora, Rolls Series, iii, p. 396) and printed also by Quetif and Echard, Script. Ord. Praed. i, p. 104. The death by shipwreck of [Jordanus Saxo,] Master of the order, is here more fully described. Beg. 'Karissimis in Christo . . . Benedictus deus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi qui diebus istis'. f. 94 b. Vellum; ff. 95. 91/2 in. x 61/4 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end, with catchwords. Sec.fol.'Explicit' or, Tradunt'. Initials in red and blue. On f. 1 b is, Memoriale de Mucheln.[Michelney Abbey co.Som.] propter ysagogicum magistri Alexandri Nequam'. On a scrap of the old cover (f. 3) is the note 'Scherborne 1494', perhaps the name of a Michelney monk; a John Scherborne was prior about the beginning of the 16th cent. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 198' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS, 25469, f. 26); ship-seal (f. 2); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8667.