hope not unsuitably—either with the view of supplying omissions in my former work or of meeting arguments more recently urged against the antiquity of the Athanasian Creed. To this head may be referred my remarks respecting the sources of Fortunatus's Commentary, the explicit assertion of the doctrine of the double procession, the expression “in sæculo natus," the Milan MS., and the relation of the Quicunque to the Trèves fragment. It is my pleasing duty to tender my grateful acknowledgments for advice, or help, or valuable information to the Dean of Chichester, Mr. Thompson and Mr. Bond of the British Museum, Mr. Coxe and Mr. Macray of the Bodleian Library, and Dr. Nolte. Especially my thanks are due to Monsieur Delisle, the Director of the National Library at Paris, and to Monsieur Socard, the Conservator of the Public Library at Troyes, and their coadjutors. Of the courtesy which I, a perfect stranger and an obscure Englishman, experienced from these gentlemen, I shall ever retain an agreeable recollection; to their generosity in granting me free access to the treasures under their guardianship I am indebted for my principal materials. February, 1880. TABLE OF CONTENTS. ANCIENT COMMENTARIES HITHERTO UNNOTICED. manuscripts in the Public Library at Troyes, in France; a fourth from a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. These four Commentaries older than any Commentary extant on this Two of these expositions in the same MS.-Troyes, 804 The second is quite different, quotes the whole of the Creed, is compiled largely from the Fathers-called here the Oratorian This Commentary has been edited by Mai and Pinius from a manuscript in the Vatican Library Dr. Swainson's mistake with respect to this Vatican MS. A third Commentary in two MSS. at Troyes-on tenth century, the other of the twelfth. Another copy of it recently found in the British Museum. This Commentary called This Commentary also quotes the whole of the Creed. It is closely connected with the Oratorian, containing much in common As regards the common matter, the Bouhier Commentary was 14 The Oratorian Commentary is consequently the earlier of the A fourth ancient Commentary from a manuscript of the early part of the tenth century in the Paris Library. This to be de- scribed as the "Paris Commentary" The dates of these Commentaries The Paris Commentary composed not earlier than the seventh The Oratorian drawn up soon after the Sixth General Council ---at the close of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth cen- tury; the Bouhier shortly after The Troyes between A.D. 649 and A.D. 680 These Commentaries afford new and additional evidence of the Distinct evidence to the antiquity of the Creed found in the The Oratorian Commentary was extensively known and used in the Middle Ages. This shown by the fact that a series of notes on the Creed, which appears in a Psalter of the thirteenth century, in the Bodleian Library, and others of the same epoch, Some notes from the Paris Commentary appear in the British Dr. Swainson's mistakes in his description of that manu- FORTUNATUS'S COMMENTARY. Three copies of this Commentary, hitherto unnoticed, found by Two more found by the Rev. W. D. Macray in the Library at These newly discovered copies do not contain the passages from . Several passages in the 'Sermo de Symbolo,' which is printed It cannot be proved in any instance to have been drawn from HAMPOLE'S COMMENTARY. This appears to be drawn from the Commentary, of which a BRUNO'S COMMENTARY. Some account of a manuscript of this Commentary, belonging This Commentary was really not the work of Bruno, but was Commentary in the form of question and answer, in a British Copies of the Commentary of Simon Tornacensis, in two Paris Copy of the Commentary of Alexander Neckam, in a British The subject of Commentaries on the Athanasian Creed of great importance in relation to its history. The great number Account of Paris manuscripts containing it Latin, 1603, in which is found a copy of the Angers Collection The latter MS. of the ninth century, but not prior to a.D. 814; The points to be noted in these MSS. in reference to our First, they prove that a Synod was held at Autun under St. Leger, at which certain Canons were passed Then that the Canon enjoining the recital of the Athanasian Creed was the first of a series of Autun Canons . And this Canon was probably enacted at the same Synod as Objections to this conclusion answered In any case, this Canon cannot be later than the end of the Exact date of the Synod of Autun uncertain. Probably it was The antiquity of the Autun Canon corroborated by the preface Probable account of the Definitions of the first five Councils and of the Lateran Synod of A.D. 649, appearing in Paris, 3848 SERMONS ON THE APOSTLES' CREED. Some of these, delivered at the "Traditio Symboli," supply The fragment preserved in Paris, Latin, 3836, commonly known as the Colbertine MS., must have belonged to a sermon of this |