afterwards republished it from the same MS. Lond. 4to, 1693. Smith included it in his folio edition of Bede's Historical Works, using three MSS., one in the Durham Library, another in the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a third in the library of Merton College, Oxford. Lastly, Stevenson, in his recent edition. of Bede's works connected with English history, used the text of Smith, and collated it with the Harleian MS. and the Durham MS. b. ii. 35. For the present edition the Burney MS. [310] has been collated with the preceding. VI. LIBELLUS DE SITU HIERUSALEM, SIVE DE LOCIS OF THE SITUATION OF JERUSALEM, SANCTIS. OR OF THE HOLY PLACES. This curious tract is not mentioned in Bede's index to his own writings; but as he quotes it in his Ecclesiastical History, [v. 17, 18.] it evidently must have been written before that index was drawn up. It is found in the folio editions, [Bas. iii. 487-498. Col. iii. 363-370.] in that of Smith, who used two MSS., one in the Bodleian, the other in the library of C. C. C. Oxford, and in Mabillon's Acta Bened. sec. iii. pt. ii. p. 502. It is reprinted from the edition of Smith, and the collations of a MS. in the King's Library at Paris will be given hereafter in an Appendix. The miraculous parts of this narrative have given occasion to critics of censuring the credulity of the author; but it will be remembered that Bede is no more than the narrator of what he found related as a fact by another. See Campbell's Memoir in Biographia Britann. The work professes to be an epitome of a larger treatise on the same subject, which Adamnan, its author, compiled from the narrative of Arculph, a French bishop, and presented to Alfrid, king of Northumberland, to whose court he came about the year 701. These are all the existing historical works of Bede, except his Chronicle, which in this edition will be restored to its proper place as part of De Temporum Ratione, among the scientific works. The Life of Anastasius is no longer extant. In the folio editions of Bede's Works are found several other lives, which were not written by him. The life of St. Vedast was written by Alcuin; those of Columbanus, Eustathius, Bertolfus, Burgundofara or Fara, and Attalus, by Jonas; that of Patricius, by Probus ; and that of Arnoldus, by Paulus Diaconus. DE SEPTEM MUNDI MIRACULIS, MANU HOMINUM FACTIS. QUOD primum est, Capitolium Romæ, salvatio civium, major quam civitas, ibique fuerunt gentium a Romanis captarum statuæ, vel deorum imagines, et in statuarum pectoribus nomina gentium scripta, quæ a Romanis capta fuerant, et tintinnabula in collibus eorum appensa. Sacerdotes aut pervigiles diebus et noctibus per vices ad harum custodiam curam habentes intendebant: si quælibet earum moveretur, sonum mox faciente tintinnabulo, ut scirent quæ gens Romanis rebellaret. Hoc autem cognito, Romanis principibus verbo vel scripto nunciabant, ut scirent ad quam gentem reprimendam exercitum mox destinare deberent. LIBRARY OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. HE first of the seven wonders of the world, made by the hand of man, is the Capitol at Rome, the very salvation of the inhabitants, and greater than a whole city. In it were statues of the nations subdued by the Romans, or images of their gods, and on the breasts of the statues were inscribed the names of the nations which had been conquered, with bells hanging from their necks. Priests or watchmen attended on these by turns, day and night, and showed much care in watching them. If either of them should move, the bell made a noise, and so they knew what nation was rebelling against the Romans. When they knew this, they communicated the information by word of mouth or by writing to the Roman princes, that they might know against what nation they were next to turn the Roman arms. |