[THEODORE'S PENITENTIAL.] 6. Similiter pecora æquali pretio possunt mutari, si necesse sit. 7. Rex si alterius regis terram habet, potest dare pro anima sua 15. 8. Inventio in via tollenda est; si inventus fuerit possessor, reddatur ei. 9. Tributum ecclesiæ sit, sicut consuetudo provinciæ, id est, ne tantum pauperes inde1 in decimis aut in aliquibus rebus vim patientur". 10. Decimas 18 non est legitimum dare nisi pauperibus et peregrinis, sive laici suas ad ecclesias1o. 11. Pro reverentia regenerationis in albis Pentecosten orandum est, ut in quinquagessima oratur. 12. Oratio potest sub velamine esse cum 20 necessitas cogit. 13. Infirmis licet omni hora cibum et potum sumere, quando desiderant vel possunt, si opportune non possunt. FINIT". Hæc consiliante venerabili Theodoro Archiepiscopo Angelorum nostri ut diximus scripserunt. Si quis vero sibi competentius melius est ve has utrasque regulas penes se tenere videantur, bene suis uti in Deum et nostris nec careant optamus, in quibus que incorrupta videntur vitio utique scriptorum interpretumque viri nimirum barbarum deputant ab omnibus ita ut a quibusdam vel hab eo eruditis illa depravata incorrectaque illa esse judicia merito abnegantur, ae quibus 15 Here MS. b alone has the following article, which is no. 8. in Wasserschleben: "Si quis de seculo ad servitutem Dei conversus speciem quamlibet regalem habeat a rege acceptum, ipsa in potestate regis est illius; sin vero a priore quovis rege defuncto, quam accipiebat, sit ut aliæ res ejus Deo secum tradere licitum." 16 inde] om. W. 17 patientur] patiantur, W. 13 decimas] decunnas, C. 19 ad ecclesias] ad ecclesiam, W. suis ecclesiis, g. 20 cum] si, W. 21 The MSS. which contain only the second book, have here the 13th chapter of the first, as in Petit's edition. MS. C. has after FINIT, (1) the Questions of Augustin with the Answers of Gregory as given above from Bede, but including the one about the relics of S. Sixtus which is regarded as spurious. (2) The verses "Te nunc sancte speculator The following epilogue is found only in MS. b, where it follows the Questions of Augustin and Answers of Gregory. It is here printed from Wasserschleben without emendation. [THEODORE'S PENITENTIAL.] non pauca cum passim a pluribus mixtimque tenentur, pariter posuimus, ut Christo Domino juvente sequentibus libris ex eis precipua lux modulum nostrum corrigamus. Sed adhuc de illa dubitantes opere re aliqua in quibusdam hujus necessaria opusculis adnectamus et maxime libello penitentie que ad prudenti posse facile reor adverti. Restat igitur super hujus ad defensionem patres nostri Theodori dilectioni vestitum quantam possumus satisfacere, quorum in aliorum catholicorum dictis plenam non invenientes expositionem eum ideo frequentastis. De quibus non immerito omnibus vos qui horum karissime causa baludicantes difficilia extitistis, ut me in illorum agone Christo pro nobis agonotheta certantem meritis vestris contra imminente a. This epilogue, and indeed the same may be said of the prologue, owes its obscurity possibly to the corruptness of the copy, but certainly in great measure to the barbarous character of the Latin. The writer's meaning, as traceable by the aid of a few conjectural emendations, seems to be this: "The above sentences were written, as we have said, by our authorities, under the advice of the venerable Theodore, Archbishop of the English (Anglorum for Angelorum). If there be any (qui for quis) who seem to themselves to possess these two [books of] rules in a better and more satisfactory form, our desire is that they should make a good use of them, to the glory of God, yet not be without the aid of our version also. Amongst these, the passages which seem to be corrupted (reading corrupta for incorrupta) by the fault of copyists and interpreters, men set down as forsooth barbarous; by all as by some even instructed by Theodore himself those judgments are deservedly rejected as unsound and incorrect. [Or, reading virorum nimirum barbarorum deputantur ab omnibus, ita ut a quibusdam etc., we may construe, "those passages which seem to be corrupted by the fault of copyists and interpreters, barbarians no doubt, are by all condemned (deputantur = abjudicantur, are ascribed to other hands) even as" etc. etc.] Many of these, since they are widely known but in a confused form, we have put together, that by the Lord Christ's help (juvante for juvente) we may in future books correct the most important of them according to (juxta or secundum for lux) our standard. But still having doubts about them (illis for illa) we add to our work (operi or operæ for opere re) a few necessary helps in certain small works (i. e. the further documents contained in the MS.), and especially a form of penitence (libellum for libello), all which we think will be readily intelligible to a wise reader. It remains therefore that we do our best (quantum for quantam) in defence of our father (patris for patres) Theodore, to satisfy you, beloved (vestræ for vestitum), who (qui for quorum) not finding in the sayings of other catholic divines a full answer to your questions, were on that account in the habit of applying to him. "For all which reasons [I entreat], beloved (karissimi for karissime), not without deserving it, that you who have been balancing (dijudicantes, or abjudicantes, rejecting, for baludicantes) these difficult places, will by your merits assist (supply adjuvetis) me in the struggle in which I am engaged, before Christ the awarder of the prize, against the enemy (inimicum for imminente).” [APPENDIX TO THEODORE'S PENITENTIAL.] APPENDIX то THEODORE'S PENITENTIAL. I. Collation of the "Capitula Theodori" as printed by D'Achery, De la Barre, and Wasserschleben, with the corresponding passages of the Genuine Penitential. [D=D'Achery's Spicilegium, vol. IX. p. 52, ed. 1669. B=The second edition of D'Achery, edited by L. F. J. de la Barre, Paris, 1723, vol. I. p. 486. W=Wasserschleben's Bussordnungen, p. 145. Penitential as printed above.] T=The Genuine |