UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PREFACE THE object of this little book is to give in a cheap and handy form not only the text and an English version of the Tome, but also the minimum amount of information required for a fair understanding of this famous treatise. The book is not meant for advanced students: they are referred to Bright's St. Leo and the Incarnation for full particulars. My obligations to Bright, Bindley (Ecumenical Documents of the Faith, 2nd ed., 1906), and to Felto (Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great, 1895) will be obvious. I have to thank the Rev. W. K. L. Clarke and Canon Eck for kindly overhauling the first draft of the notes, and for several helpful suggestions. Prof. C. H. Turner courteously sent me a set of photographs of the Tome according to MS. Monacensis lat. 14540 (sæc. viii.) fol. 116, white on black, but quite legible. This particular manuscript, though early in date, represents (says Prof. Turner) "an edited text of the middle of the sixth century." I have collated this MS. throughout, but the variants are unimportant; the few that seemed worth recording I have placed at the foot of the printed text (which is reprinted from Heurtley's De Fide et Symbolo). Heurtley's text was taken from the edition of Leo's works by the Ballerini Brothers, Venice, 1753. Prof. Turner informs me that the Tome is contained also in the following early MSS. of Canon Law: (1) Paris, Bibl. Nat. 12097, s. vi. exeunt. 801755 |