greater seclusion and strictness, as his fame both for preaching and miracles attracted large crowds of visitors to his present abode. The Pope, however, compelled him to apply himself afresh to his task of missionary preaching. On arriving at Maises on the Adige he incurred the wrath of Duke Grimoald by his boldness in rebuking him for his marriage with Piltrud, the widow of his deceased brother; and the persecution of Piltrud, rather than of Grimoald perhaps, forced him to flee to the Tyrol, whence he returned after the death of Grimoald in 724. He now founded the Monastery of Freising, on the Isar, in Bavaria, and dedicated it to the Blessed Virgin and to St. Benedict; it was raised to an episcopal seat, and Corbinian was himself the first Bishop.

He died on the 8th of September, 730 A.D., and was succeeded by his own brother Erimbert. Erimbert was succeeded by Aribo, who transferred the body of Corbinian back to Freising from Maises, whither, in accordance with his dying request, it had been conveyed. To Aribo also we are indebted for a life of the Saint and founder of the Monastery1.

The library was founded by Bishop Hitto, the fifth in order from Corbinian, and received large additions under Bishop Abraham (died 994); but our Manuscript is of course considerably older than the library to which it belonged; in all probability it was there from the first, as there are no marks on it to suggest its having been in any other library; it only bears its present Munich number of Lat. 6224; and its old Freising number of 24. No Biblical MS. appears in the three very fragmentary lists of books in the library of Freising, reprinted by G. Becker, but these are too scanty for any argument to be drawn from them.

1 For the history of Corbinian and Freising see Mabillon, Annales O. S. B. lib. liii, Meikelbeck, Historia Frisingensis, Augsburg, 1724.

2 Catalogi Bibliothecarum Antiqui, pp. 41, 148, Bonn, 1885.

7. THE LECTIONARY NOTES IN 2.

The following is a list of the lectionary notes; they are written in the margin of the MS. in an ugly cursive hand of probably the 8th or 9th century, being in some cases almost undecipherable. I have arranged them as far as I can in the chronological order of the Church's year; but I cannot always assign a definite passage of Scripture to each lesson, as the crosses in the text do not regularly correspond to the notes written in the margin: as a rule, of course, two crosses are inserted, which we may take to mark the beginning and the end; but sometimes only one is found, which may refer either to the beginning or the end, sometimes none, sometimes the crosses without any corresponding lesson. Nor does the comparison of other Lectionaries help us here, as the lessons seem to belong to some German local use, and have few affinities either with the Comes, Gallican, or Mozarabic uses1.

I can then but call attention to them in the hope that future workers in this branch of study may be able to throw more light upon the question.

de aduento Lk. 26-39 († at 36 and ++ fine at 39).

de aduento Lk. iii. 1-7 († at 1 and at 7).

initium lect. de natiuitate dñi Mt. i. 18-22 († 18, † 22).

in natale dni Lk. ii. 1-15? († at i only).

seconda natal sc.

(Innocents' day) Mt. ii. 16–23 († 16, † 23).

in octaba dñi Lk. ii. 21–26? († at 21 only).

in die são epefanie lectio prima Mt. ii. 1-13 († at 13 only).

This is part of the

Ambrosian Gospel. There is no lectio secunda for Epiphany, but above Mt. iii. 13 is written the note by the first hand lege in apparitionem dni and this passage may have been appropriated for the second lesson.

tertia lectio in die são epefania Jn. ii. 1–12? (no marks of beginning or end; but this would agree with the Ambrosian and with the Lect. Luxouiense).

domineca in caput quadrageseme Lk. iv. 1-14? († at 1 only).

in caput quadragesim Mt. vii. 13-15? († at 13 only: cf. Sacr. Bobiense). dominica in oliuo Mt. xx. 29-34 († and fine at 34).

1 As given in the article Lectionary (by Dr. Scrivener) in Smith's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities; cf. Mabillon De Liturgia Gallicana.

dominec in oliuo Mk. xi. 1-11 (finem at 11).

cena di Mt. xxvi. 17-30? cena đi at 17: (this is part of the Sacr. Bobiense, and is probably the Gallican lesson shortened: cf. also the Ambrosian Lectionary).

lectio in uigiliis pasce per altare Mt. xxviii. 1–8 († at 8).

lectio prima ad fontes in uigiliis pasce Jn. iii. 7-10? (no mark except in the middle of 10: so in the Ambrosian; in the Mozarabic for the vigil of Pentecost). lectio seconda ad fontes in uigiliis pasce Jn. iv. 13-15 († and finet at the beginning

of 15).

lectio tertia ad fontes in uigiliis pasce Mt. xxviii. 16 ad fin.? († at 16 also at 18; this may have been originally part of the same lesson as Mt. xxviii. 1–8; or

cf. the Ambrosian for Thursday in Easter week).

lectio in domeneca in prima pasca Jn. xx. 1-10? (no marks).

lectio in plena pasca diae domenecarum Jn. xx. 19-24? († at 19 only).

seconda firia in albas Jn. i. 1-15 (+ before 15).

lectio in albas die sabbatorum Jn. v. 1-14 (finit before 14).

seconda domeneca post xl. Lk. xv. 12 ad fin.? (no marks).

tertia dominica post pasca Jn. iv. 1-28 († before 28).

mediantem penteconste lectio euangelii secondum iuhanne Jn. vii. 14–19? († at 14 only found in Ambr. and in Moz. for dom. 4 xl.).

post mediantem pentecuste sequenti domeneca lectio euangelii Jn. ix. 1-39 (procedent finet at end of 38; this is the Moz. Gospel for dom. 3 xl., and Ambr. for dom. 4 xl.; it is possible that the previous lesson was transferred to its present date when the Gospel of Abraham was borrowed from Rome by the Milanese for dom. 3 xl., and that this lesson was similarly transferred from dom. 3 or 4 xl.).

in die ascensiones dñi nostri iħu xpi second carnem lectio euangelii secondum luca Lk. xxiv. ad fin. († at 44; agrees with Ambrosian and Mozarabic, and is part of the Gospel in the Sacr. Bobiense).

post ascensionem dñi lectio euangelii iohanen die domenecorum Jn. vi. 22–25? (no marks).

in penteconste Jn. xv. 23 ad fin.? (+ at 23 only).

lectiones que debeant legi per vii domenecas lectio prima domeneca Jn. i. 32-35? no marks: cf. the seven Sundays after Pentecost in the Mozarabic and Ambrosian).

seconda domeneca lectionem que debeat legi Jn. iii. 19-22? (no marks: these do not seem to have been completed, unless all the remaining lessons fell in the passage of St. John which is missing).

Apostolorum in passione scrum maccaueorum lectio euangelii secondum matteum Mt. xx. 20-29 (The Maccabees were patron Saints of Cologne and were commemorated on the 1st of August).

iiii calendas sebtembres pustridie iohanni bapteste.

lectio sci iohannis bapteste Mt. xiv. 1-15 (finet at end of 14).

lectio sci iohanni Lk. i. 57–67? († finet lectio sci iohanni before 67, but nothing to mark where the lesson begins).

in uitiis.

in nate sce marie Mk. x. 48 ad fin.

in timothei et in (rest gone) Mt. xvi. 21 ad fin.? (no marks).

lectio zacch. Lk. xix. 1–39.

de ceco Mk. x. 46 ad fin.

v firias Mk. xvi. 9 († at 9 only).

in scrum

in dedecation Mk. ix. 1–8? (no mark of ending).

The notes which I have added to the lessons are principally the suggestions kindly offered by the Rev. W. C. Bishop; the term 'Ambrosian' refers to the Ambrosian MS. lectionary, the oldest known; a proof of which Dr. Ceriani had sent him.

I may also add a list of the following passages to which the crosses to mark a lesson have been attached, though the title of the lesson itself has either never been added, or else has disappeared by being cut off with the margin of the page by the binder :-Matt. v. 1; vi. 16 *inc., viii. 14; ix. 18; x. 32; xiii. 43; xv. 21, 29, the title of the lesson has been cut off here, 32, 39; xvii. 14, xviii. 23, xix. 16, xxi. 5, no cross here, but the title of a lesson, which has been cut off, and similarly against 17; xxiv. 34; xxv. 1, 31; John iv. 27; Luke x. 25; xii. 32; xvii. 20; xviii. 18, 35; Mark iii. 28.

MONITUM.

Codicis numerus est Lat. 6224 Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis. Fuit olim Frisingensis 24 inter Cimelia ii. 13. A. Tischendorfio ceterisque Noui Testamenti criticis littera q insignitus est: ultimi folii ectypon arte lithographica reproductum in Silvestrii operibus Quatrième Partie, no. 158 reperitur. Ordo Euangeliorum est Mathaeus, Johannes, Lucas, Marcus Codex saeculo post Christum septimo attribuitur. Litteris semi-uncialibus exaratus est, iisque lineis quibus asteriscos praefixi, uariis coloribus ornatis: necnon sub signo, imagines uel in margine uel in imis paginis depictas indicaui; uerba uel litterae quae uncis includuntur ex Codice perierunt.

Manus primae scripturam cum punctis et spatiolis fideliter secutus sum, correctionesque aliarum manuum in notulis recensui, nisi quod eas litteras quas a manu prima omissas suppleuit eadem manus, lectionesque ecclesiasticas a manu secunda scriptas in eodem loco quem in Codice habent, typis commisi: quae folia ex Codice exciderunt uacuis paginis expressi, foliorumque adnumerationem ut nunc exstat, quamuis priscum foliorum ordinem restitui, fideliter reddidi: de quibus plura in prolegomenis uidebis.