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Ballerini, Appendix ad primam partem operum S. Leonis Magni: Praefatio

Editors' preface

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APPENDIX AD PRIMAM PARTEM OPERUM S. LEONIS MAGNI
APPENDIX TO THE FIRST PART OF THE WORKS OF ST LEO THE GREAT
PRAEFATIO.
PREFACE.
1. In quibusdam editionibus ante Quesnellum solus sermo de Martyribus, qui antea ut Leoninus editus fuerat, veluti appendix diverso charactere auctori incerto tributus fuit. Quesnellus, hoc sermone de Martyribus omisso, quinque alios in appendiculam rejecit, tres Leoni in vulgatis ascriptos, nimirum unum de S. Vincentio, alium de SS. apostolis Petro et Paulo, tertium adversum haeresim Eutychis, et duos alios ex mss. exscripsit, alterum in Nativitate, alterum in Ascensione Domini. His autem quinque sermonibus monitum praemisit quod hoc loco inserimus :
1. In certain editions before Quesnel only the sermon on the Martyrs, which had earlier been published as Leo's, was assigned, as a kind of appendix in a different type, to an uncertain author. Quesnel, leaving out this sermon on the Martyrs, relegated five others to a small appendix: three ascribed to Leo in the printed editions, namely one on St Vincent, another on the holy apostles Peter and Paul, a third against the heresy of Eutyches; and two others he copied out from manuscripts, one on the Nativity, the other on the Ascension of the Lord. To these five sermons, moreover, he prefixed a notice, which we insert in this place:
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Footnotes

(a) ‹anchor: sanctorum Patrum judicio› · call in col 467

Haec a Leone fusius explicantur serm. 24, 47, et alibi; nec non epist. 109 et 165 : in quo tamen animadvertendum est Photini haeresim ad Nestorianam, Manichaei autem et Apollinaris ad Eutychianam accedere.

These things are set out more fully by Leo in sermons 24, 47, and elsewhere, and also in letters 109 and 165; in which, however, it should be noticed that the heresy of Photinus comes near to the Nestorian, while that of Manichaeus and of Apollinaris comes near to the Eutychian.

(no call) ‹editors' closing notice, in italic across the full width, beneath the end of the sermon and above the title of the Appendix› · cols 467-468 Quesnellus duas praefationes, alteram in episcopi consecratione, alteram in ordinatione presbyteri, et allocutionem archidiaconi ad episcopum, quae in Romano Pontificali exhibentur, cum ex styli similitudine S. Leoni tribuendas, tum Sermonibus ejus subjiciendas putavit. Nos vero, licet quoad Auctorem non omnino dissentiamus a Quesnelli sententia, hic tamen eas praefationes et allocutionem idcirco non appendimus, quia tomo secundo recusaturi sumus antiquissimum Sacramentarium Romanum e mss. Veronensi a Josepho Blanchinio ante aliquot annos editum, et nostro Auctori ab eodem tributum, in quo duae illae praefationes continentur. Ibidem autem hac de re plura disserentur, et allocutionem etiam, quae in eo Sacramentario mutilo desideratur, in fine ejusdem adjiciemus.

Quesnel thought that two prefaces, one at the consecration of a bishop, the other at the ordination of a presbyter, and the archdeacon's address to the bishop, which are given in the Roman Pontifical, should both be attributed to St Leo from the likeness of style and be placed after his Sermons. We, however, though as regards the Author we do not altogether dissent from Quesnel's opinion, nevertheless do not append those prefaces and the address here, for this reason, that in the second volume we are going to reprint the very ancient Roman Sacramentary published some years ago from a Verona manuscript by Giuseppe Bianchini, and attributed by him to our Author, in which those two prefaces are contained. In that same place, moreover, more will be said on this matter, and the address also, which is wanting in that mutilated Sacramentary, we shall add at its end.

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2. «In sequentem appendiculam conjecimus eos sermones, qui Leonis nomine insigniti leguntur in mss. codicibus, cum tamen genuinis ejus Sermonibus accenseri eos prohibeant tum aliae rationes, tum styli maxime disparitas.
2. "Into the following small appendix we have cast those sermons which are read in manuscript codices marked with Leo's name, although both other reasons and above all the unlikeness of style forbid their being reckoned among his genuine Sermons.
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« Primo loco ponitur sermo in Natali S. Vincentii martyris, quem ad Lugdunense Lectionarium ms. in bibliotheca Thuanea asservatum, et ad Corbeiense, qui nunc est Asceterii S. Germani a Pratis, relegi. S. Augustino tribuitur in Corb. Nullius auctoris nomen habet Lugdun. Leonis esse pleraeque Operum ejus editiones testantur. Sed nec Leoni nec Augustino esse tribuendum vel ipse stylus demonstrat. Certe nec Africanus nec Italus fuit auctor, qui potius Hispanum se prodit, tum in ipso sermonis initio, tum maxime his verbis capitis 1 : Hunc ergo amplius propria venerentur, quem etiam peregrina mirantur ; ex quibus manifestum est illic laudatum fuisse hoc sermone Vincentium martyrem, ubi agonem sanguinis effusione compleverat. Accedit huic argumento alterum ex Ecclesiarum Romanaeque in primis consuetudine, quae propriorum regionis suae martyrum memoriam annua solemnitate venerari contentae, extraneos simili festivitate a suis honorandos relinquebant. Et revera si Machabaeos, qui extra ordinem sunt, excipias, nullum laudavit concione publica Leo noster, nisi quem sinu suo foverat Romana Ecclesia; sed nec ipsum protomartyrem Stephanum, tot licet nominibus universae Christi Ecclesiae venerandum. Alius igitur auctor sermonis. S. Leandrum Hispalensem episcopum non sine probabili ratione conjeceris. Primae utriusque nominis syllabae similitudo Leonem pro Leandro supponendi occasionem fortasse praebuit, dum sola in ms. codice remansit, caeteris apicibus vetustate exesis.
"In the first place is put the sermon on the feast day of St Vincent the martyr, which I have read again against the manuscript Lectionary of Lyons kept in the library of de Thou, and against that of Corbie, which now belongs to the monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. In the Corbie manuscript it is assigned to St Augustine. The Lyons manuscript has no author's name. Most editions of his Works attest that it is Leo's. But that it is to be assigned neither to Leo nor to Augustine the style itself shows. Certainly the author was neither an African nor an Italian; rather he betrays himself as a Spaniard, both at the very beginning of the sermon and above all in these words of chapter 1: Let his own, therefore, venerate the more him whom even foreign lands admire; from which it is manifest that Vincent the martyr was praised in this sermon in the place where he had completed his contest by the shedding of his blood. To this argument is added another, from the custom of the Churches and of the Roman Church in particular, which, content to venerate with a yearly solemnity the memory of the martyrs proper to their own region, left those from outside to be honoured with a like festival by their own people. And in truth, if you except the Maccabees, who stand outside the rule, our Leo praised no one in a public discourse except one whom the Roman Church had cherished in her own bosom; not even the protomartyr Stephen himself, though on so many titles to be venerated by the whole Church of Christ. The author of the sermon, then, is another. You might conjecture, not without probable reason, St Leander, bishop of Seville. The likeness of the first syllable of the two names perhaps gave occasion for putting Leo in place of Leander, when it alone remained in the manuscript codex, the other letters having been eaten away by age.
« Huic sermoni alios duos subjecimus, alterum de Nativitate Domini, alterum de Ascensione, utrumque ex codice Corbeiensi bibliothecae S. Germani a Pratis. Leonis nomen in fronte habent ; Leonis tamen esse persuadere mihi non potui. S. Fulgentii stylum magis mihi sapiunt quam Leonis ; quem in primi sermonis exordio imitatus est auctor ; in primo enim de Nativitate sermone similia leguntur apud Leonem.
"To this sermon we have subjoined two others, one on the Nativity of the Lord, the other on the Ascension, both from the Corbie codex of the library of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. They bear Leo's name at their head; yet I have not been able to persuade myself that they are Leo's. To me they savour more of the style of St Fulgentius than of Leo; whom the author imitated in the opening of the first sermon; for similar things are read in Leo, in his first sermon on the Nativity.
« Denique nec ab editione nostra rejecimus geminum centonem ex Leonis nostri scriptis consutum. Primus est sermo qui secundus antea erat in Natali apostolorum Petri et Pauli, de quo vide monitum sermoni primo in eodem festo subjectum. Alter est tractatus S. Leonis PP., ut fert titulus, adversus errores Eutychetis et aliorum haereticorum ; quem ex vetusto codice ms. bibliothecae Vaticanae descriptum aiunt qui primi illum S. Leonis Operibus inseruere. Ex quo quisque pannus loco assumptus sit, facile lector cognoscet ex iis quae ad marginem annotavimus. »
"Finally, neither have we cast out of our edition the pair of centos stitched together from the writings of our Leo. The first is the sermon which was formerly the second on the feast day of the apostles Peter and Paul, concerning which see the notice subjoined to the first sermon on the same feast. The other is the tractate of St Leo the Pope, as the title has it, against the errors of Eutyches and of other heretics; which those who first inserted it among the Works of St Leo say was copied from an ancient manuscript codex of the Vatican library. From what place each patch has been taken the reader will easily learn from what we have noted in the margin."
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3. Hactenus Quesnellus : qui optime quidem de tribus primis sermonibus, de quinto etiam non omnino male. At de sermone in Natali S. Petri apostoli, qui incipit Exsultemus in Domino, assentiri non possumus : hunc enim genuinum Leonis fetum esse probavimus in admonitione praemissa sermoni 83, ubi eum collocavimus. Potius inter apocrypha referre debebat sermonem in Cathedra S. Petri, quem ille uti sincerum dedit serm. 96, nos autem veluti certo supposititium in hac appendice recudemus serm. 14, de quo ibidem plura. Alium quoque sermonem de Machabaeis, qui in omnibus editionibus Leonis citra dubitationem habetur, Augustino, non autem Leoni adjudicandum invictis argumentis detegemus. Haec quoad sermones in Leonis editionibus hactenus vulgatos.
3. Thus far Quesnel: who judges very well indeed of the first three sermons, and of the fifth also not altogether badly. But concerning the sermon on the feast day of St Peter the apostle, which begins Let us exult in the Lord, we cannot agree: for we have proved that this is a genuine offspring of Leo in the admonition prefixed to sermon 83, where we have placed it. He ought rather to have referred to the apocrypha the sermon on the Chair of St Peter, which he gave as authentic, as sermon 96, but which we shall reprint in this appendix, as certainly spurious, as sermon 14, about which more in that place. Another sermon also, on the Maccabees, which is held beyond doubt in all the editions of Leo, we shall show by unanswerable arguments to be awarded to Augustine and not to Leo. So much for the sermons hitherto published in the editions of Leo.
4. Plures vero alios sermones nostro Auctori affictos in mss. Lectionariis et collectionibus deteximus. Tres ex his in veterum PP. Latinorum opusculis tom. II, part. I, novissime edidit V. C. P. abbas Joannes Chrysostomus Trombellius, ex quibus duos subdititios, unum genuinum putat. Eosdem nos quoque repereramus, et alios plures, de quibus mox dicemus ; sed ne unum quidem vere Leoninum arbitramur. Qua in re ut interim omittamus indicia quaedam peculiaria suis locis notanda, quae nonnullos ex sermonibus mox recensendis a Leone abjudicant, aliisque nunc certis nunc incertis auctoribus tribuendos evincunt ; ad distinguendos caeteros, qui nullam peculiarem ejusmodi notam praeferunt, hi duo characteres sufficient. Primus aperta styli ac syntaxis dissimilitudo, quae Leoninam scribendi rationem callentibus in oculos statim incurret. Secundus formulae in appellandis auditoribus usurpatae fratres, aut filii charissimi, et his similes, quae a Leone alienissimae sunt : hic enim solo adjectivo, dilectissimi, constanter utitur, ut omnes sermones ejus evolventibus palam fiet. Alterutrum satis est : multo magis si utrumque in sermonibus jamjam memorandis invenias.
4. But we have discovered in manuscript Lectionaries and collections many other sermons falsely fastened upon our Author. Three of these the most distinguished Father, Abbot Giovanni Crisostomo Trombelli, has very recently published in the Opuscula of the ancient Latin Fathers, tome II, part I, of which he thinks two spurious and one genuine. We too had found the same ones, and several others, of which we shall speak presently; but we judge not even one to be truly Leonine. In this matter, to pass over for the present certain particular indications, to be noted in their own places, which take some of the sermons soon to be reviewed away from Leo and prove that they are to be assigned to other authors, now certain, now uncertain: for distinguishing the rest, which bear no particular mark of that kind, these two characteristics will suffice. The first is the open unlikeness of style and syntax, which will at once strike the eyes of those skilled in Leo's manner of writing. The second is the formulas used in addressing the hearers, brethren, or dearest sons, and the like, which are utterly foreign to Leo: for he constantly uses the adjective alone, dearly beloved, as will be plain to those who turn over all his sermons. Either one is enough: much more if you find both in the sermons now to be mentioned.
5. Hac in appendice ii sermones omittendi non fuerunt qui in Quesnelli editione prodiere. Qui vero in hac editione nondum fuerunt inserti in duas classes distinguendi sunt. Alii enim inter aliorum Patrum Opera prodiere, alii vero prorsus inediti sunt. Quoad illos qui in aliis Patribus vulgati inveniuntur (uno serm. 8, ob peculiarem rationem in admonitione indicandam, excepto), satis erit eorum catalogum hic inserere, et editiones in quibus prostant indicare. Sunt autem sermones sequentes :
5. In this appendix those sermons were not to be omitted which appeared in Quesnel's edition. But those which had not yet been inserted in that edition are to be divided into two classes. For some have appeared among the Works of other Fathers, while others are wholly unpublished. As to those which are found published among other Fathers (sermon 8 alone excepted, for a particular reason to be indicated in the admonition), it will be enough to insert a catalogue of them here, and to indicate the editions in which they are available. Now the sermons are the following:
DE ADVENTU.
ON THE ADVENT.
I. Sanctam et desiderabilem, gloriosam ac singularem solemnitatem, etc., uti serm. 116 append. Sermonum S. Augustini tom. V novissimae editionis. Leoni autem inscribitur in mss. S. Petri 106, Veneto S. Marci 153, Tridentino ac duobus Veronensibus. Sed S. Caesarium habere auctorem PP. Maurini in laudata appendice observarunt.
I. The holy and longed-for, the glorious and singular solemnity, etc., as sermon 116 of the appendix of the Sermons of St Augustine, tome V of the latest edition. It is, however, inscribed to Leo in the manuscripts St Peter's 106, the Venetian one of St Mark 153, that of Trent and two of Verona. But the Maurist Fathers observed in the appendix cited that it has St Caesarius for its author.
DE NATIVITATE.
ON THE NATIVITY.
II. Cupientes aliquid de hujus diei solemnitate, etc. Certo Leonis sermoni subjicitur in ms. Vallicellano 26, cum epigraphe Unde supra, quae hujus et anterioris sermonis eumdem auctorem esse in Lectionariis significat. Est sermo S. Fulgentii p. 525 editionis Parisiensis 1671.
II. Desiring [to say] something of the solemnity of this day, etc. It is subjoined to a certainly genuine sermon of Leo in the manuscript Vallicellanus 26, with the heading The same as above, which in Lectionaries signifies that this sermon and the preceding one have the same author. It is a sermon of St Fulgentius, p. 525 of the Paris edition of 1671.
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III. Dominus et Salvator noster, etc. Leonis nomine praenotatur in ms. Patavino Eremitanorum 112. Legitur autem in app. Augustini serm. 141, et S. Caesario tribuitur.
III. Our Lord and Saviour, etc. It is headed with Leo's name in the Paduan manuscript of the Hermits, 112. But it is read in the appendix of Augustine as sermon 141, and is assigned to St Caesarius.
IV. Justissime, fratres, festivitatis praesentis diei, etc. Recensetur inter Leonis Sermones in ms. Casinensi collect. 1, sed est S. Maximi Taurinensis, et prostat inter ejusdem Opera hom. 2 de Nativitate.
IV. Most justly, brethren, [the joy] of the feast of this present day, etc. It is reckoned among Leo's Sermons in the Monte Cassino manuscript of collection 1, but it is by St Maximus of Turin, and is available among his Works as homily 2 on the Nativity.
V. Nativitatem Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem, etc., Leoni perperam ascriptus in ms. Vallicell. 26. Legitur in append. Augustini serm. †125.
V. The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh, etc., wrongly ascribed to Leo in the manuscript Vallicellanus 26. It is read in the appendix of Augustine as sermon †125.
VI. Nativitas Domini nostri Jesu Christi totum mundum, etc. In eodem Vallicell. 26 Leonis nomen falso praefert. Editus est in app. Augustini serm. 125.
VI. The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ [has renewed] the whole world, etc. In the same Vallicellanus 26 it falsely bears Leo's name. It is published in the appendix of Augustine as sermon 125.
DE EPIPHANIA.
ON THE EPIPHANY.
VII. In hac, dilectissimi, celebritate. Est hom. 1 S. Maximi de Epiphania ; perperam autem tribuitur S. Leoni in mss. Vat. 1267.
VII. On this festival, dearly beloved. It is homily 1 of St Maximus on the Epiphany; but it is wrongly assigned to St Leo in the manuscript Vaticanus 1267.
VIII. Plerique in hac sancta Epiphania, etc. S. Leoni ascribitur in ms. Veneto 153. Exstat tom. II Ambrosii novissimae editionis, in appendice serm. 10 de Epiphania 3.
VIII. Very many on this holy Epiphany, etc. It is ascribed to St Leo in the Venetian manuscript 153. It is extant in tome II of the latest edition of Ambrose, in the appendix, sermon 10, the third on the Epiphany.
DE QUADRAGESIMA.
ON LENT.
IX. Conflictus iste mirabilis, etc., falso S. Leoni inscriptus in mss. Vallicell. II, et Patavino S. Antonii 408, cum sit hom. 2 de Quadrag., sancti Maximi.
IX. That wonderful conflict, etc., falsely inscribed to St Leo in the manuscripts Vallicellanus II and the Paduan one of St Anthony, 408, whereas it is homily 2 on Lent of St Maximus.
X. Rogo vos et admoneo, fratres charissimi, Leonis nomine in cod. Bergomensi S. Alexandri in Columna. Est Caesarii, et legitur in app. Augustini Serm. 142.
X. I ask and admonish you, dearest brethren, under Leo's name in the Bergamo codex of Sant'Alessandro in Colonna. It is by Caesarius, and is read in the appendix of Augustine as Sermon 142.
XI. Jejunii tempora, secundum Scripturas, etc., inter Sermones S. Leonis recensetur in mss. collectionibus 1 et 2, at in Lectionariis basilicae S. Petri 105 et 107, sine ullo auctoris nomine. Excerptus fuit ex libro primo de ecclesiasticis officiis S. Isidori Hispalensis cap. 37, 38, 39 et 40.
XI. The times of fasting, according to the Scriptures, etc., is reckoned among the Sermons of St Leo in the manuscript collections 1 and 2, but in the Lectionaries of the basilica of St Peter, 105 and 107, it is without any author's name. It was excerpted from the first book On the Ecclesiastical Offices of St Isidore of Seville, chapters 37, 38, 39 and 40.
XII. Hos sanctae Quadragesimae dies, etc., in app. Augustini serm. 145, Leonis nomine in ms. Patav. Eremit. 112.
XII. These days of holy Lent, etc., in the appendix of Augustine sermon 145; under Leo's name in the Paduan manuscript of the Hermits, 112.
XIII. Mirum non esse debet a Deo factum miraculum, etc. In Evangel. Joannis V : Erat dies festus Judaeorum, quod legitur feria 6 quatuor temporum Quadragesimae Leonis nomine profertur in cod. Basil. Vat. S. Petri 106. Est autem tractatus 17 S. Augustini in Joannem.
XIII. It ought not to be a wonder that a miracle was done by God, etc. On the Gospel of John 5: There was a feast day of the Jews, which is read on the Friday of the Ember days of Lent, it is brought forward under Leo's name in the codex of the Vatican Basilica of St Peter, 106. But it is tractate 17 of St Augustine on John.
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DE TRADITIONE SYMBOLI.
ON THE HANDING OVER OF THE CREED.
XIV. Cum apud Patres nostros, sicut liber Judicum refert, etc., sermo S. Leonis in ms. Vallicellano 2. Est autem S. Maximi homil. 1 de Diversis.
XIV. When among our Fathers, as the book of Judges relates, etc., a sermon of St Leo in the manuscript Vallicellanus 2. But it is homily 1 On Various Subjects of St Maximus.
XV. In hodiernum convivium qui solemni frequentia, etc. Leoni tribuitur in ms. Patavino S. Antonii 408. Invenitur autem inter Chrysostomi Opera tom. III editionis Nivellianae pag. 743, sed est incerti auctoris Latini.
XV. To today's banquet [you] who in solemn throng, etc. It is assigned to Leo in the Paduan manuscript of St Anthony, 408. But it is found among the Works of Chrysostom, tome III of Nivelle's edition, page 743, though it is by an uncertain Latin author.
DE CRUCE ET LATRONE.
ON THE CROSS AND THE THIEF.
XVI. Et quando de cruce nostra processit oratio, etc., in ms. Casinensi Sermonem S. Leonis collectionis 1. Incerti antiqui Latini auctoris est inter Chrysostomi Opera tom. III editionis Basileensis Hervagianae an. 1539, pag. 567.
XVI. And since our discourse has gone forward concerning the cross, etc., in the Monte Cassino manuscript of collection 1 of the Sermons of St Leo. It is by an uncertain ancient Latin author, among the Works of Chrysostom, tome III of Herwagen's Basel edition of the year 1539, page 567.
DE PASCHA.
ON EASTER.
XVII. Retinet sanctitas vestra, etc., in mss. Basilicae Vat. 106 et Tridentino ; legitur autem in app. Augustiniana sermone 162.
XVII. Your holiness remembers, etc., in the manuscripts of the Vatican Basilica, 106, and of Trent; but it is read in the Augustinian appendix as sermon 162.
DE ASCENSIONE.
ON THE ASCENSION.
XVIII. Fratres chorissimi, Ascensionis Dominicae inclytum et regale mysterium, etc., Leonis nomine in Vallicell. A, 7, et inter Leonis Sermones in Casin. collect. 1. Habetur in app. Augustini sermone 179.
XVIII. Dearest brethren, the renowned and royal mystery of the Lord's Ascension, etc., under Leo's name in Vallicellanus A, 7, and among Leo's Sermons in the Monte Cassino collection 1. It is found in the appendix of Augustine as sermon 179.
XIX. Glorificatio Domini nostri Jesu Christi resurgendo et ascendendo completa est, etc., perperam nostro Auctori tribuitur in ms. Vallicell. A, 9, et XXV, nec non in Chigiano 5, cum sit sermo 263 S. Augustini.
XIX. The glorification of our Lord Jesus Christ was completed by rising and ascending, etc., is wrongly assigned to our Author in the manuscripts Vallicellanus A, 9, and XXV, and also in Chigianus 5, whereas it is sermon 263 of St Augustine.
XX. Hodierna die Ascensionem in coelum celebramus, etc. Nomine Leonis praenotatur in mss. Patavino S. Justinae et in Vallicel. A, 7. Editus est a Maurinis ex vetustissimo codice Remigiano, atque tributus S. Augustino in fine Sermonum, serm. 395.
XX. On this day we celebrate the Ascension into heaven, etc. It is headed with Leo's name in the Paduan manuscript of St Justina and in Vallicellanus A, 7. It was published by the Maurists from a very ancient codex of Saint-Remi, and assigned to St Augustine at the end of the Sermons, sermon 395.
XXI. Omnia, charissimi, quae Dominus Jesus Christus in hoc mundo, etc. In mss. Vallicellanis A, 9 et XXV, atque in Chigiano 5, legitur praefixo Leonis nomine. Est autem in app. Augustini serm. 176.
XXI. All things, dearest ones, which the Lord Jesus Christ in this world, etc. In the manuscripts Vallicellani A, 9 and XXV, and in Chigianus 5, it is read with Leo's name prefixed. But it is in the appendix of Augustine, sermon 176.
XXII. Salvator noster, dilectissimi, ascendit in coelum, etc. Leonis item nomine in iisdem tribus codd., in app. vero Augustini serm. 177.
XXII. Our Saviour, dearly beloved, ascended into heaven, etc. Likewise under Leo's name in the same three codices, but in the appendix of Augustine sermon 177.
DE PENTECOSTE.
ON PENTECOST.
XXIII. Discessurus e mundo isto, et ascensurus in coelum Dominus, etc., est sermo in app. Aug. 184. Non solum in mss. Fossatensi et Germanensi apud Maurinos, sed etiam in cod. Veneto 154, S. Leoni falso tribuitur ; legitur autem sine ullo auctoris nomine in Lectionariis Veronensi ac Vallicell. A, 9.
XXIII. The Lord, about to depart from this world and to ascend into heaven, etc., is sermon 184 in the appendix of Augustine. Not only in the manuscripts of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and of Saint-Germain used by the Maurists, but also in the Venetian codex 154, it is falsely assigned to St Leo; but it is read without any author's name in the Lectionaries of Verona and Vallicellanus A, 9.
XXIV. Post illam singularem insignemque victoriam, etc., est sermo 182 app. Augustini. In Vallicellanis XXV, et A, 9, nullo nomine praenotatur : sed in Chigiano, in Patavino S. Justinae et in Veneto 154, Leoni perperam ascribitur.
XXIV. After that singular and signal victory, etc., is sermon 182 of the appendix of Augustine. In the Vallicellani XXV and A, 9, it is headed with no name: but in the Chigianus, in the Paduan manuscript of St Justina and in the Venetian 154, it is wrongly ascribed to Leo.
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XXV. Perpetui muneris refulsit hodie ornamentum, etc., Leonis nomine in mss. Patavino, Bergomensi S. Alexandri ac Veneto, absque auctoris nomine in Vallicell. XXV. Legitur autem in append. Augustini serm. 186.
XXV. The adornment of the everlasting gift has shone forth today, etc., under Leo's name in the manuscripts of Padua, of Sant'Alessandro at Bergamo and of Venice, without an author's name in Vallicellanus XXV. But it is read in the appendix of Augustine as sermon 186.
XXVI. Sanctitati vestrae, charissimi, votorum jam nota debet esse festivitas, etc., est sermo 185 in app. Augustiniana, cujus lege observationem praefixam. In Veneto autem cod. 154 ac in Vallicell. XXV Leonis nomen falso praefert ; in Vallicell. vero A, 9, absque ullo auctoris nomine.
XXVI. To your holiness, dearest ones, the feast of your desires ought by now to be known, etc., is sermon 185 in the Augustinian appendix; read the observation prefixed to it. But in the Venetian codex 154 and in Vallicellanus XXV it falsely bears Leo's name; in Vallicellanus A, 9, however, it is without any author's name.
DE JEJUNIO DECIMI MENSIS.
ON THE FAST OF THE TENTH MONTH.
XXXVII. Legimus S. Moysen populo Dei praecepta dantem, etc., est serm 285 inter Augustino olim tributos ; et reipsa in ms. Bas. Vatic. 170, inter opuscula hujus sancti recensetur hac inscriptione : Item de fide catholica S. Augustini. Leonis nomine habetur in ms. Vallicell. II.
XXVII. We read that holy Moses, giving precepts to the people of God, etc., is sermon 285 among those formerly assigned to Augustine; and in fact in the manuscript of the Vatican Basilica, 170, it is reckoned among the minor works of this saint with this inscription: Likewise on the Catholic faith, of St Augustine. It is found under Leo's name in the manuscript Vallicellanus II.
DE CATHEDRA S. PETRI.
ON THE CHAIR OF ST PETER.
XXVIII. Institutio solemnitatis hodiernae a senioribus nostris, etc., ac.
XXVIII. The institution of today's solemnity by our elders, etc., and
XXIX. Quamvis solemnitas festivitatis hodiernae, etc., sunt sermones 190 et 191 appendicis Augustinianae, ad quos lege ibidem doctas Benedictinorum observationes. Leoni ascribuntur in Vallicell. XXVI ac in regio Taurinensi 218.
XXIX. Although the solemnity of today's feast, etc., are sermons 190 and 191 of the Augustinian appendix, on which read in the same place the learned observations of the Benedictines. They are ascribed to Leo in Vallicellanus XXVI and in the royal manuscript of Turin, 218.
IN ANNUNTIATIONE B. VIRGINIS MARIAE.
ON THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.
XXX. Virginalis hodie solemnitas linguam nostram, fratres, ad praeconium vocat. In Lectionario Padilironensi S. Leoni papae tribuitur. Est autem vetus interpretatio, sed corruptissima, celebris homiliae S. Procli, tunc Cyziceni, postea vero Constantinopolitani episcopi, in laudem Deiparae, quae Graece et Latine praefigitur actis concilii Ephesini tom. III Venetae editionis pag. 577, nec non inter orationes et homilias PP. Graecorum editas a Combefisio pag. 301, Latine autem in bibliotheca Concionatoria ejusdem tom. VI, pag. 355. Haec eadem antiqua versio S. Proclo inscripta, ex cod. Vat. 2836 (l. 3836) edita fuit a P. Vincentio Ricardio pag. 673 editionis Romanae an. 1630 omnium Operum ejusdem S. Procli.
XXX. Today the Virgin's solemnity, brethren, summons our tongue to proclamation. In the Lectionary of Polirone it is assigned to St Leo the Pope. But it is an old translation, though a most corrupt one, of the celebrated homily of St Proclus, then bishop of Cyzicus and afterwards of Constantinople, in praise of the Mother of God, which is prefixed in Greek and Latin to the acts of the council of Ephesus, tome III of the Venice edition, page 577, and also stands among the orations and homilies of the Greek Fathers published by Combefis, page 301, and in Latin in the same man's Bibliotheca Concionatoria, tome VI, page 355. This same ancient version, inscribed to St Proclus, was published from the codex Vaticanus 2836 (read 3836) by Father Vincenzo Riccardi, page 673 of the Roman edition, of the year 1630, of all the Works of the same St Proclus.
IN NATALI S. JOANNIS BAPTISTAE.
ON THE FEAST DAY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST.
XXXI. Hodie, dilectissimi fratres, qui Domini praecucurrit adventum, etc. Leoni inscribitur in mss. Vallicell. A, 9, et XXV. Reperitur in app. Augustini sermone 198.
XXXI. Today, dearly beloved brethren, he who ran before the Lord's coming, etc. It is inscribed to Leo in the manuscripts Vallicellanus A, 9, and XXV. It is found in the appendix of Augustine as sermon 198.
XXXII. Post illum sacro sanctum Domini natalem diem, etc. Est serm. 196 app. Augustini, et falso tribuitur Leoni in ms. Regio Taurinensi 768.
XXXII. After that most sacred birthday of the Lord, etc. It is sermon 196 of the appendix of Augustine, and is falsely assigned to Leo in the Royal manuscript of Turin, 768.
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IN NATALI SS. PETRI ET PAULI.
ON THE FEAST DAY OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL.
XXXIII. Apostolici natalis gaudio, fratres charissimi, etc., ac.
XXXIII. In the joy of the apostolic feast day, dearest brethren, etc., and
XXXIV. Beatissimorum apostolorum passio, quorum hodie natalem solemniter celebramus, etc., nec non.
XXXIV. The passion of the most blessed apostles, whose feast day we solemnly celebrate today, etc., and also
XXXV. Beatissimorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli inseparabilem fidem, etc. Hi tres sermones inter illos S. Leonis reperiuntur in mss. collectionibus 1 et 2, et duo postremi nomine Leonis praenotantur in cod. Vallicell. VII. Leguntur vero inter Opera S. Maximi Taurinensis hom. 2, 3 et 4, De natali SS. apostolorum Petri et Pauli.
XXXV. The inseparable faith of the most blessed apostles Peter and Paul, etc. These three sermons are found among those of St Leo in the manuscript collections 1 and 2, and the last two are headed with Leo's name in the codex Vallicellanus VII. But they are read among the Works of St Maximus of Turin as homilies 2, 3 and 4, On the feast day of the holy apostles Peter and Paul.
DE SANCTO PAULO.
ON ST PAUL.
XXXVI. Filioli mei, audite nos, et liberate vos, etc. Leonis nomine in vetusto ms. Corbeiensi, ac in cod. Eremitarum Patavino 2 et in Veronensi S. Firmi Majoris. Vide appendicem Aug., ubi legitur serm. 204.
XXXVI. My little children, hear us, and deliver yourselves, etc. Under Leo's name in the ancient Corbie manuscript, and in the Paduan codex of the Hermits, 2, and in the Veronese one of San Fermo Maggiore. See the appendix of Augustine, where it is read as sermon 204.
DE SANCTO LAURENTIO.
ON ST LAWRENCE.
XXXVII. Sanctum est, fratres, ac Deo placitum, etc., et.
XXXVII. It is holy, brethren, and pleasing to God, etc., and
XXXVIII. Sicut patrum nostrorum, fratres charissimi, non incerta relatione didicimus, etc. Hi duo sermones perperam Leoni ascribuntur in mss. collect. 1 et 2, cum sint homil. 1 et 2 S. Maximi in Natali S. Laurentii.
XXXVIII. As we have learned, dearest brethren, from the not uncertain report of our fathers, etc. These two sermons are wrongly ascribed to Leo in the manuscripts of collections 1 and 2, whereas they are homilies 1 and 2 of St Maximus on the feast day of St Lawrence.
DE S. STEPHANO.
ON ST STEPHEN.
XXXIX. Fratres charissimi, celebravimus hesterno die natalem, quo rex martyrum, etc. Leonis nomen praefert in Vat. 1267, stylo repugnante. Legitur in appendice Augustini serm. 215.
XXXIX. Dearest brethren, yesterday we celebrated the birthday on which the king of martyrs, etc. It bears Leo's name in Vaticanus 1267, though the style is against it. It is read in the appendix of Augustine as sermon 215.
DE ABSALON, QUANDO PERSEQUEBATUR DAVID PATREM SUUM.
ON ABSALOM, WHEN HE WAS PERSECUTING DAVID HIS FATHER.
XL. Perdidit Absalon sceleratissimus mentem suam, perdidit sensum, amisit consilium, etc. Inter Leonis Sermones in mss. collect. 2 et in nonnullis collect. 3 et 4. Hunc sermonem ex his codicibus edidit Gerardus Vossius, praepositus Tungrensis, inter Miscellanea sanctorum aliquot Patrum Graecorum et Latinorum, subjecta editioni Moguntinae Operum S. Gregorii Thaumaturgi an. 1604, pag. 234. Sed incerto auctori Latino eumdem sermonem ascribendum censuit, notavitque eum reperi in editionibus Latinis S. Jo. Chrysostomi, uti in Nivelliana tom. I, pag. 556.
XL. The most wicked Absalom lost his mind, lost his sense, let go his counsel, etc. Among Leo's Sermons in the manuscripts of collection 2 and in some of collections 3 and 4. This sermon was published from these codices by Gerard Vossius, provost of Tongeren, among the Miscellanea of several holy Greek and Latin Fathers, subjoined to the Mainz edition of the Works of St Gregory Thaumaturgus, of the year 1604, page 234. But he judged that the same sermon should be ascribed to an uncertain Latin author, and noted that it is found in the Latin editions of St John Chrysostom, as in Nivelle's, tome I, page 556.
DE MARTYRIBUS.
ON THE MARTYRS.
XLI. Quotiescumque, fratres charissimi, sanctorum matyrum solemnitates celebramus, etc. Leonis nomine in
XLI. As often, dearest brethren, as we celebrate the solemnities of the holy martyrs, etc. Under Leo's name in
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aliquot editionibus antiquis editus fuit, nec non in Homiliario Pauli Diaconi editionis Basileensis an. 1496. Lovanienses in editione Antuerpiensi an 1583 et Rainaudus incerto auctori tribuerunt, et similiter Vossius Tungrensis eumdem ex mss. emendatiorem recudens in Miscellaneis paulo ante laudatis, a Leone abjudicavit. Legitur autem Augustini nomine in Romano Breviario, et in appendice ejusdem doctoris serm. 224, ubi editores illum S. Caesario ascribendum existimant.
several old editions it was published, and also in the Homiliary of Paul the Deacon in the Basel edition of the year 1496. The Louvain editors in the Antwerp edition of the year 1583, and Raynaud, assigned it to an uncertain author, and likewise Vossius of Tongeren, reprinting it in a more correct form from manuscripts in the Miscellanea cited a little above, took it away from Leo. But it is read under Augustine's name in the Roman Breviary, and in the appendix of the same doctor as sermon 224, where the editors think it should be ascribed to St Caesarius.
6. Sermones descriptos in appendice collectionis secundae, de quibus in praefatione sermonibus praemissa num. 19, etsi in partem maximam aliis scriptoribus tribuendi inter eorum opera editi fuerint, hic tamen non recensuimus, eo quod ex ms. basilicae S. Petri 210 ejusdem collectionis separati a Leonis Sermonibus inveniantur, post interjecta quaedam Cypriani Opuscula subjecti sine ullo auctoris nomine ; unde Leoni attributi dici nequeunt. Eadem de causa in hac serie non collocavimus fragmentum sermonis de Abrahae filio e ms. bibliothecae Bononiensis S. Salvatoris a P. abbate Trombellio editum tom. II Anecdot. part. I, pag. 252. Cum enim codex auctoris nomine caret, tum vero ipse editor ex simplici conjectatione vaga et incerta illud vel Leoni, vel Maximo Taurinensi, vel Petro Chrysologo tribui posse existimavit.
6. The sermons copied in the appendix of the second collection, of which [we spoke] in the preface prefixed to the sermons, no. 19, although for the most part, being attributable to other writers, they have been published among their works, we have nevertheless not reviewed here, because, to judge from the manuscript of the basilica of St Peter, 210, of the same collection, they are found separated from Leo's Sermons, subjoined after certain minor works of Cyprian that come between, without any author's name; hence they cannot be said to be attributed to Leo. For the same reason we have not placed in this series the fragment of a sermon on the son of Abraham, published from a manuscript of the library of San Salvatore at Bologna by Father Abbot Trombelli, tome II of the Anecdota, part I, page 252. For not only does the codex lack an author's name, but the editor himself, from a simple conjecture, vague and uncertain, thought that it could be assigned either to Leo, or to Maximus of Turin, or to Peter Chrysologus.
7. Reliqui sunt sermones Leoni in aliquot codicibus ascripti, qui nulla in editione Patrum prodierunt. Hos, cum editu digni visi sunt, in subjecta appendice invenies. Qui peculiari aliqua ratione a Leone abjudicandi fuerunt, admonitionem praeferent in qua opportunae observationes inserentur. Quoad caeteros vero, qui nihil peculiare habent, cum Leoni eos ascribi non posse duo characteres num. 3 propositi satis demonstrent, codicem ex quo eos Leonis nomine inscriptos eruimus, in ipsorum fronte indicare sufficiet.
7. There remain the sermons ascribed to Leo in several codices which have appeared in no edition of the Fathers. These, when they have seemed worthy of publication, you will find in the appendix that follows. Those which had to be taken away from Leo for some particular reason will bear at their head an admonition in which suitable observations will be inserted. But as to the rest, which have nothing particular, since the two characteristics set forth in no. 3 sufficiently show that they cannot be ascribed to Leo, it will be enough to indicate at their head the codex from which we have drawn them inscribed with Leo's name.
8. Neque idcirco credimus omnes sermones qui Leoni in mss. tribuuntur a nobis inventos fuisse. Immo cum in omnibus fere Lectionariis diversarum Ecclesiarum libris quos contulimus aliquem novum sermonem Leoninum nacti simus, nihil ambigimus quin aliis alios ejusmodi codices evolventibus alios sermones ejus nomini similiter ascriptos, id est supposititios, reperire continget.
8. Nor do we therefore believe that all the sermons which are assigned to Leo in manuscripts have been found by us. Rather, since in almost all the Lectionary books of the various Churches which we have collated we have come upon some new sermon called Leo's, we have no doubt that others, turning over other codices of this kind, will happen to find other sermons likewise ascribed to his name, that is, spurious ones.
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9. Hac autem occasione duas suppositionum frequentiores origines, quas in expendendis multis Lectionariis deteximus, hic annotare non inutile nec ingratum lectoribus fuerit. Cum in iisdem codicibus describerentur sermones qui inter divina officia pro festorum aut feriarum ratione legendi erant si plures ad eamdem solemnitatem pertinentes eumdem habebant auctorem, primo sermoni tantum auctoris nomen saepe praefigebatur ; caeteris vero, qui continuata serie consequebantur, praenotata leguntur haec verba, Cujus supra, vel Unde supra, quibus indicatur idem auctor sequentis sermonis ac praecedentis. Posteriores autem librarii qui ejusmodi codices transcribebant, aliquos identidem sermones vel praeteribant vel addebant ex aliis Lectionariis, ut cuique videbatur. Hinc autem contingebat non raro ut alicujus auctoris sermonem inserentes ex Lectionario in quo erat inscriptio Cujus supra, vel Unde supra, hanc eamdem inscriptionem inconsiderate retinerent, licet alius auctoris sermoni vel Sermonibus subjiceretur ; et ita lectores hunc pro sermone ejusdem scriptoris acciperent. Ita in ms. Lectionario Patavino Patrum Conventualium S. Antonii, post duos sermones S. Maximi de Epiphania describitur sermo incipiens : Hodiernam festivitatem, dilectissimi, apparitio Domini, etc., cum titulo Cujus supra ; ex quo titulo S. Maximo tribuendus videtur, cum tamen non S. Maximum, sed S. Leonem habeat auctorem, et sit sermo 5 de eadem solemnitate, in nostra autem editione sermo 35. Hac forte de causa duos sermones ipsius Leonis 38 et 43 Augustino fuerunt attributi, et in hujus appendice leguntur serm. 133. et 148, nec absimiliter sermo ejusdem pontificis 40, qui sub Leonis quidem nomine legebatur a monachis Corbeiensibus, Divionensibus, Sandionysianis et Compendiensibus, nomine S. Maximi inscribebatur apud Cluniacenses, teste Ulderico apud P. Martene de antiquis monachorum Ritibus lib. III, cap. 11, num. 2.
9. On this occasion, moreover, it will be neither useless nor unwelcome to readers to note here the two more frequent origins of false attributions, which we have discovered in weighing many Lectionaries. When in the same codices the sermons were being copied which were to be read during the divine offices according to the order of feasts or ferias, if several belonging to the same solemnity had the same author, the author's name was often prefixed to the first sermon only; while over the rest, which followed in unbroken series, these words are read written at the head, Whose as above, or The same as above, by which it is indicated that the author of the following sermon is the same as that of the preceding. But later scribes who transcribed codices of this kind now and again either passed over some sermons or added some from other Lectionaries, as seemed good to each. Hence it happened not rarely that, inserting a sermon of some author from a Lectionary in which there was the inscription Whose as above, or The same as above, they thoughtlessly kept this same inscription, although it was being subjoined to a sermon or Sermons of another author; and so readers took this for a sermon of that same writer. Thus in the manuscript Paduan Lectionary of the Conventual Fathers of St Anthony, after two sermons of St Maximus on the Epiphany there is copied a sermon beginning: Today's feast, dearly beloved, the appearing of the Lord, etc., with the title Whose as above; from which title it seems to be attributable to St Maximus, although it has not St Maximus but St Leo for its author, and is sermon 5 on the same solemnity, and in our edition sermon 35. For this reason perhaps two sermons of Leo himself, 38 and 43, were attributed to Augustine, and are read in his appendix as sermons 133 and 148; and not unlike is the case of sermon 40 of the same pontiff, which was indeed read under Leo's name by the monks of Corbie, of Dijon, of Saint-Denis and of Compiègne, but was inscribed with the name of St Maximus among the Cluniacs, as Ulrich witnesses in Father Martène, On the Ancient Rites of Monks, book III, chapter 11, no. 2.
10. Alia etiam suppositionis origo, licet minus frequens, afferri potest. Nonnumquam librarii sine ulla auctoris mentione sermones alicujus nobis ignoti scriptoris in Lectionariis inseruere, qui postea habiti fuerunt ejus auctoris cui praecedentes sermones in iisdem codicibus inscribebantur. Ita duos sermones quorum alter e S. Isidori Hispalensis Operibus excerptus fuit, paulo ante memoratus num. 11, alter vero qui exorditur, Dilectissimi nobis, fides nostra nos admonet, et in hac appendice edetur num. 4, sine ullius auctoris nomine subjecti sermonibus S. Leonis de Quadragesima in Lectionariis basilicae S. Petri 105 et 107, veluti Leonini recensentur in mss. collect. 1 et 2, quae ex iisdem vel similibus Lectionariis originem ducunt. Hujus generis fuisse videntur illi sermones qui in diversis Lectionariis libris aliis atque aliis tribuuntur, ex gr. S. Augustino, S. Joanni Chrysostomo, S. Leoni, etc., haecque ipsa auctorum quibus adjudicantur varietas incerti et ignoti auctoris indicium est.
10. Another origin of false attribution also, though less frequent, can be adduced. Sometimes scribes inserted in Lectionaries, without any mention of an author, sermons of some writer unknown to us, which were afterwards held to belong to that author to whom the preceding sermons in the same codices were inscribed. Thus two sermons, of which one was excerpted from the Works of St Isidore of Seville, mentioned a little above at no. 11, and the other is that which begins, Dearly beloved to us, our faith admonishes us, and will be published in this appendix as no. 4, subjoined without any author's name to the sermons of St Leo on Lent in the Lectionaries of the basilica of St Peter, 105 and 107, are reckoned as Leonine in the manuscripts of collections 1 and 2, which draw their origin from the same or similar Lectionaries. Of this kind seem to have been those sermons which in different Lectionary books are assigned now to one and now to another, for example to St Augustine, St John Chrysostom, St Leo, etc.; and this very variety of the authors to whom they are awarded is a sign of an uncertain and unknown author.
11. Quod si his causis aliam adjicias, quam PP. Maurini in Ambrosio proponunt, celebritatem scilicet auctoris, qua ignotorum vel inferioris quoque notae scriptorum lucubrationes commendare placuit, cum Leonis nomen celeberrimum esset, haec quoque ascribendorum ipsi sermonum causa non defuit. Quo vero plures alicujus sancti sermones ob celebritatem ejus Lectionariis fuerunt inserti, eo plures alieni sermones eidem attributi deprehendentur, ut in Augustino videre est, cujus sermones in Lectionaria passim inducti, incredibilem ascitiorum copiam, quae genuinorum numerum fere coaequat, receperunt. Cum itaque S. Leonis sermones in Lectionariis frequentes occurrant, plures eidem suppositos nancisci non difficile fuit. Sed eia jam ipsos sermones in hac appendice edendos subjiciamus.
11. But if to these causes you add another, which the Maurist Fathers set forth in their Ambrose, namely the celebrity of an author, by which it was thought good to commend the labours of unknown writers or even those of lesser mark, then, since Leo's name was most celebrated, this cause too for ascribing sermons to him was not wanting. Indeed, the more sermons of any saint were inserted in Lectionaries on account of his celebrity, the more sermons of others will be found attributed to the same man, as may be seen in Augustine, whose sermons, brought everywhere into the Lectionaries, have taken in an incredible abundance of adopted ones, which almost equals the number of the genuine. Since therefore the sermons of St Leo occur frequently in Lectionaries, it was not difficult to come upon many falsely fathered on him. But come, let us now subjoin the sermons themselves to be published in this appendix.
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  • other: Lower half of the FULL-WIDTH page: sections 9-11; the unit ends here with "subjiciamus." at the page foot, inside cols 475-476. Italic: Cujus supra, Unde supra (each time), the two incipits, and "Quadragesima". Small-capital "lib. iii" set as III. No comma is printed before "si plures" in section 9. "Ita duos sermones ... recensentur" in section 10 is likewise an accusative where a nominative is wanted (as printed; possibly the editors' own slip, like the first misprint listed). "S. Petri 105 et 107" is clear here, which settles the doubtful numeral marked † in entry XI under col 471 as 105. "Whose as above" / "The same as above" render the rubrics Cujus supra / Unde supra.