PL 6 · cols. 821–822

Admonitio in sequens fragmentum

Editors' preface

ADMONITIO IN SEQUENS FRAGMENTUM.

ADMONITION ON THE FOLLOWING FRAGMENT.

Primus anno 1679 subsequens fragmentum vulgavit Stephanus Baluzius sub nomine Lactantii, hoc unico fretus argumento, quod illud ad calcem manuscriptorum quorumdam Divinarum Institutionum legerit. Sed pace tam docti viri dixerim, id non sufficere. Nusquam enim his in manuscriptis Lactantio

Étienne Baluze first published the following fragment in the year 1679 under the name of Lactantius, relying on this one argument alone, that he had read it at the end of certain manuscripts of the Divine Institutes. But, by the leave of so learned a man, I would say that this is not enough. For nowhere in these manuscripts is it to Lactantius

Editors' notes and page, col. 821

Footnotes

(a) ‹anchor: Institutionum legerit› · call in col 821

Reperitur in mss. quibusdam recentioribus: 1° in tribus Regiis, 2° in uno Victorino, 3° in Sorbonico uno, 4° in tribus Anglicanis; sed sine Lactantii nomine.

It is found in certain more recent manuscripts: 1st, in three of the Royal; 2nd, in one of St Victor; 3rd, in one of the Sorbonne; 4th, in three English ones; but without the name of Lactantius.

VARIORUM NOTAE (to the Fragmentum de extremo judicio; keyed by lemma, no call marks) (Praenuntiatur) ‹anchor: Sacris Litteris praenuntiatur› · lemma in col 821 Praenuntiatur. Sic reposui ex nov. S. Augustini editione et mss. praeter 1 Colb., in quo est pronuntiatur, ut in Baluziana editione.

Praenuntiatur ("is foretold"). I have restored it so from the new edition of St Augustine and the manuscripts, except one Colbert manuscript, in which it is pronuntiatur ("is pronounced"), as in Baluze's edition.

(Esse) ‹anchor: novissimum futurum esse› · lemma in col 821 Esse. Additum ex mss. 1 Reg., 1 Colb., Em. et S. Augustin.

Esse. Added from the manuscripts: one Royal, one Colbert, Emmanuel, and St Augustine.

(Qua incredibili) ‹anchor: nescio qua incredibili› · lemma in col 821 Qua incredibili. Vide in Epitome, c. 67, circa med., alias c. 8, circa finem.

Qua incredibili ("by what unbelievable"). See in the Epitome, ch. 67, about the middle, otherwise ch. 8, near the end.

(Illud) ‹anchor: vel circa illud› · lemma in col 821 Illud. Ita lego cum mss. 1 Reg., 1 Colb., Sorbon., Vict., Em. et ed. nov. S. Augustini. Alter Colb. et ed. Baluz.

Illud ("that"). So I read with the manuscripts: one Royal, one Colbert, Sorbonne, St Victor, Emmanuel, and the new edition of St Augustine. The other Colbert and Baluze's edition [read otherwise; the reading is not printed].

(Thesbiten) ‹anchor: Eliam Thesbiten› · lemma in col 821 Thesbiten. Sic legunt S. Augustinus et mss. Lactantiani, praeter unum Colb., qui cum edit. Baluz. habet Thesbitem.

Thesbiten. So read St Augustine and the manuscripts of Lactantius, except one Colbert, which with Baluze's edition has Thesbitem.

(Fidem) ‹anchor: fidem Judaeorum› · lemma in col 822 Fidem. Ita reposui ex mss. 1 Reg., Colb., Sorb., Vict., Em., Merton., S. Augustino. Alter Colb. et ed. Baluz. ferunt fide.

Fidem. I have restored it so from the manuscripts: one Royal, Colbert, Sorbonne, St Victor, Emmanuel, Merton, and from St Augustine. The other Colbert and Baluze's edition give fide.

(Diremptionem) ‹anchor: malorumque diremptionem› · lemma in col 822 Diremptionem. Id est, separationem. Vict. in marg. discussionem; mss. 5 et ed. Baluz. direptionem, male. Cum S. Augustino lego diremptionem, quae vox, licet insolens et minime latina, idem est ac diremptus Ciceroni, qui ait: Interitus est quasi discessus, et secretio, et diremptus earum partium, quae ante interitum junctione aliqua tenebantur, 1 Tuscul., 71.

Diremptionem ("parting"): that is, separation. The St Victor manuscript has discussionem in the margin; five manuscripts and Baluze's edition have direptionem ("plundering"), wrongly. With St Augustine I read diremptionem, a word which, though unusual and hardly Latin, is the same as diremptus in Cicero, who says: "Death is as it were a departure, a separation, and a parting of those parts which before death were held together by some union" (Tusculan Disputations 1.71).

(Ejusdemque) ‹anchor: conflagrationem, ejusdemque› · lemma in col 822 Ejusdemque. Sic restituo ex mss. 1 Reg., Sorbon., Vict., 1 Colb., Em. et S. August. Alter Colb. et ed. Baluz., ejus denique.

Ejusdemque ("and of the same"). So I restore it from the manuscripts: one Royal, Sorbonne, St Victor, one Colbert, Emmanuel, and St Augustine. The other Colbert and Baluze's edition: ejus denique ("and finally its").

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running head: 821 S. AUGUSTINI FRAGMEN[TUM] (cut off at the image edge)
marginal letters: A ‹mus, et verax, ad lucem›; B ‹Primus anno 1679›; C ‹Nullus vel negat›; D (none)
old-edition numerals: (none)
other: a full-width band stands across cols 821/822 in mid-page: the 3 paragraph(s) above it in col 822 are set here, after the 2 above it in col 821 (reading order, moved on receipt); the band itself (its title lines) is not set by the volunteer page: set it here, at the move, with full_width
other: 2 full-width bands stand across cols 821/822 (after paragraphs 1+2, 2+3 of the two columns, counted from the top): the pieces are set in reading order, each pair under its own band; set each band where its piece begins
other: the column continues with Nullus vel negat, vel dubitat (another unit); not set here
other: the column opens with the end of the previous work (another unit); not set here: the unit begins at Primus anno 1679 subsequens fragmentum
running head: 821 S. AUGUSTINI FRAGMENTUM. 822
marginal letters: B ‹Primus anno 1679 subsequens›
old-edition numerals: (none)

PL 6:822

tribuitur, immo potius in codice Regio 3977 sub S. Augustini nomine exscribitur, his verbis: Augustinus in libro XX de Civitate Dei. At ideo scriptor amanuensis fragmentum istud subjecit Lactantio, ut ejus ac millenariorum depelleret errores, quibus passim, ac praecipue librum VII Divinarum Institutionum sparg⟨i⟩t auctor noster. (Hanc annotationem ex Examine doctrinae Sanctorum Patrum viri doctiss. D. des Essarts decerpsimus).

attributed; rather, in the Royal codex 3977 it is copied out under the name of St Augustine, in these words: "Augustine in Book XX of the City of God." But the copying scribe appended this fragment to Lactantius for this reason: to dispel his errors and those of the millenarians, which our author scatters here and there, and especially through Book VII of the Divine Institutes. (We have taken this note from the Examination of the Doctrine of the Holy Fathers by the most learned Monsieur des Essarts.)

Editors' notes and page, col. 822

Page

running head: …STINI FRAGMENTUM. 822 (left part cut off at the image edge)
marginal letters: A dum spiritus hos regit artus; B tio tribuitur, immo potius; C bonorum malorumque diremptionem
old-edition numerals: (none)
other: "dum spiritus hos regit artus," is printed centred on its own line (verse quotation) and is set as its own line; column begins after it mid-sentence. Full-width title "…IONITIO / …S FRAGMENTUM." (cut off at left) stands between the first passage's notes and the B paragraph: not set. Full-width title "…TINI FRAGMENTUM / …EMO JUDICIO." stands between the B paragraph and the C paragraph: not set. Editors' matter set: the Admonitio paragraph "tio tribuitur, immo potius…" (des Essarts annotation). First word "tio" is the remainder of a word broken from the previous column (whose Admonitio text ends "…Lactan-", checked on the page, Q1); the word is set whole, "Lactantio", at the end of col 821's text, and the tail is not restored here. "sparg⟨i⟩t": letter i lost in the type. Variorum notae at the foot of both sections not set.
other: the 3 paragraph(s) of this column above the full-width band are set under col 821 (reading order, moved on receipt)
other: the text of this column below the full-width band belongs to the next unit; not set here (rail-only part)
running head: 821 S. AUGUSTINI FRAGMENTUM. 822
marginal letters: B ‹tio tribuitur, immo potius›
old-edition numerals: (none)
other: whole unit is editors' prose (layer 1). First word "tio" completes "Lactantio" set whole at the end of c821. "sparg t": a letter lost to damaged type, read sparg⟨i⟩t. "xx" and "vii" printed in small capitals, set XX and VII. A stray mark between "annotationem" and "ex" is not set. The band SANCTI AUGUSTINI FRAGMENTUM DE EXTREMO JUDICIO below heads the next unit and is not set.
other (Q3): break confirmed on the page foot image as Lactan-/tio (col 821's last text line ends "Lactan-"); the "ac-" reported by the col 822 volunteer is "Lac-" in col 821's footnote ("sine Lac-/tantii"). The Admonitio's footnote (call "a" after "legerit" in col 821; "Reperitur in mss. quibusdam recentioribus…") stands at the foot of col 821 and belongs to n821; it is not on this column.