Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis

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xix tuto et secure custodiendum. Hac tamen conditione, ut, si imposterum favente Deo) monasterium illud ' reaedificari contingeret, tunc magister et socii Collegii sive Aulus Sanctae Trinitatis praedictae eundem li- brum monachis ejusdem coenobii restitui sacerent, quoniam ad eos de jure pertinere debet. We are noW in a position to inquiro respecting the age and name of the Author, and the value of his Work M an historical compilation. The fidit os these polata is readily determined. Fromthe bois of the narrative me may collect uiat theWelin rebelliony under OWen Glendo er had been recently cru ed;- an intimation Which Will bring usto the first deciae of the fifteonin century. We gatheralso, stom the use of the expression piae memoriae, 'that Archbishop Mundet Was no more at the date Osine fidit ' Titulus V whicli, ho died on tho 20ιh of February 1413 V 0.e. 1414 , mill placo the transcrip tion of the present ΜS., is nos the actuat compoAitionos the work itfelf, aster that year. On the Other Ride, the chronological Τablo onds abruptly in the fidit quarter os a page at the year 4418, and the entriessor three or laur years preceding are made in a diseserent haud, the inserenoe is necessitated, or, Rι lemi, suggested very strongin that the execution of the worklar Aomo cauae or other had Men discontinuod monaster I la; nor have we any intimation in the bodyof the narrative, considered as distinct Dom the chr nological Table, to savour the hypothesis os later Orion. We are at liberim inere re, to concludo that 1414 is proximately the time ut Which the work os o Author Was finalty interrupted πιο that Author mas we aro unable to decide Monoe Willi equia certainw. The manuscript limis liasneister titie nor colaphon. From it, ho-Ver, We mu

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See above, p. xiv. Capy ve' version of this matter runs as sol-loma : Inveni enim aeriptum in eoenobio sancti Gregorii Cantuariae, quod anno Domini m.Lxxxv.. L-Daneus archiepiscopua eo oratanetarum virginum Mildredae et viburgae. in Thaneto insula -- pulta. de terra levavit. et in Mel

sia beati Gregorii Cantuariae. quam ad pauperum solamen paulo finis de rebus e lesiae, mi praesidebat.

ditaverat, eum magno honore ua serena eouo viti ni revera aerinium antis pretiossiua adveniantibus tenditur. aed citiam ιλ.em inter

monachos et ranomi a Pro eo ore

saneue Mildredae nondum tempore sedatam, peritiori a diaeutiendam relinquo.'-Nora Lemnia, sia.

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Thomas es minam; thus intimatinginat Wanley, under Whose superinis tendenee the earlier portion of the Harteian Catalogue mas made, hae en Hready Ied to the conclusion

here advocat . No Nason vas,

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gested in the Generat Introd-tion to the '' Monumenta Britanniea V p. 29, n. 6 . via. that theΛuthor ly expressing in his uanal hom alie manum his mantos alli in comminis .' p. 72. respecting the Boyal Patent. Uearn ove. Λppend. Να ii. . M Monumenti Britan.' Generat Introd. p. 29.

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and nos entirely Or in substance borro ed Dom more elegant Writers, no one Will dispute the miserable Wantos assi in composition, or desend the Authors turgidepitheta and his declamatory diction. The resemblanceis, hoWever, Atili more obrio in attempta at ve sification Where materiati os comparison have been placed villiin our reach. Thus, in a metrical account of the Dundation of St. Augustine,, Whicli the readerwili Od in 'Titulus I.,' me have the lassοWing lines in honour os St. Pancras :-Τ Marcida dum tellus patet, hanc tu germino justi Ornas Augustini ; flos datur inde noVellus. Nunc juvenes puerique, senes, laudes date lenea; Almiphonis jubilate tonis, per rura colonis 'And on turning to the metrical Lise of Henry V., or rather to A seW acroatic verses of tho Autlior on his οὐ name Thomas Elmham Monachus '' appendod tothat Lise, me meet again mitti lines ' appronching Verynearly to those just quoted. They grow out of u prO- sano Te Deum in honour of the BleSsed Virgin, e.I.:- Marcida jam tellus pateι, hinc tu germine sacro Ornes, Theothocos, flore Virente nOVO, Nuntia sacra tibi, quae contulit angelus, Angli Almiphonis resonent perpetuanda tonis '

p. 93. Tha v is aeronte is prinita a IIearne, as above, Append. No. vii., stom the Cotton MS. Vespas. D. xiii. Io. For a second copy of his Te Deam to the Virgin, see Cotton ΜS. Julius E. iv. 3, hereine hymn la sale to ad laudem Dei Genitricis Mariae, propter gloriosam expeditionem regis Henrici quinti, et pro suceursu regis gliae, dotis suae, quae cunctas haereses, cum haeresiarcha Johanne old-Castet, suis precibus interemit:V-tWo evenis, it mill be noticed, Whlah mere oeeupying the publiemine exactly hen the chronological Summary prefixed to this

volume mas for some causo or other

ties even more remarhable have

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accumulation os literary tremur . Conspicuous in the The Librimi ι of them, or maesed in more recent times with G π Wyη - ουpectat reveren , On the ledge immediately above thehio altar of tho church, ' mere seen the libri missi P a Gregorio ad Augustinum ' Theso booka our Αuthor characteriam Very aptly, When he calla them tho primitim librorum ecclesiae Anglicanae.' ' of the twolve volumes included in his catalogue, somo have

Augustino'a. It is true this convent, though escapingino barbariw of the Danes, Waa uter Warda materi-

of August II 68; and Thome, Who has narrated tho currenoe,' adda that many of the old monastic cha fers perished in the fiam in qua combustione multa codicellas antiquae perierunt ) ; yet, in common Withour Auctor, he is positive in his amertion that some atteast os the Gregorian manuscripta mere extant whentie Wrote :- Habemus etiam Bibliam sancti Gregorii st ' Evangelium ejusdem, et quainam capaB Veteres, quae omnia idem Gregorius misit Augustino. β Thia inmo

e. 6, is further indieatin in theeoloured Maving of the high-altar, as preserved in the present HS. Me msti, p. 276, n. . ' p. ss. 3 Histi Mel ,V L 2s. Chronie '' GL I8I5. Reyneris theres e M savit .hen he urges that the μ' archives and munimenta of SL Λngustine'a remalneo .holeand inruet untii the reim os Henry VIII.' Apostolatus Braedictisorum in Anglis, P. 47. Chronica,' col. 1763. Graecos eodices non intellectos, et Latinos, pm senio ipsis parum amabiles, in forulorum usus, ut nihil vilius dicam, discerpserunti

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huri., rio. tinet nitention to the catalogue preMoed in our o ne innir HS., thaι efforia Would bo made to identity particular voluntes there describe i With li rarγ relica in Our modern librarios. Different resulta, bo ever, have been frequently obtained is disserent archaeologiata. Wanli himself, sor instance, contended that iis late M 160ν, tho large Gregorian Bible in t o Volumea Waa knownto be stilli extant, Ming reserred to in a petition

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XXVIIbi lo' that me have there at least one veritable relicos Sti Gregorys benefaction. Apari, hoWever, hom that fidit grand contributionto tho librisy of SL Augustines, other presenta' hadbeen continuassy floWing in, untii at the commen mentos tho M enth century the volumea open to a mo in tho position os οὐ Author, must have Memed Mintho materi ala beat ad ted in his pur M. In the ouiset of the work, Where he resera in somo Authoritiosos his principes authorities by name, he specifiea thestandard volumes of Bede and William os Μiam buryaa thoae Which ho most sedulo ly consulted, and towliich he was dis sed to pay the ulmost deserence. From both of them it mill be Dund that he has bomm ed largely, yet, With se exceptio , openly and h

nicatores V of the day. With Bede, according to one querulo representation, had expired the light of genuino scholarship in England. me long age of duinem had immediately set in : Pigro successit pigrior; et sic in gente nostra studiorum detepuit omnia servor, ut ' Ρi- gerrimi pigrioribus succedere nunc videntur.' Whilo Writing thus, hoWever, he largeta that his οὐ treatlae

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rioisia, Motis modem mader M the Prmenoe in Our volume os ain nyd u- series of important documenta, Whicli cannot irem the, thi.4. ' ordeat os historic criticism. I am alluding to tho bullannd chartem os an early date, on Whicli the Augustiniana had Men long accustomed in base their cliam in the protection os the Moish k γ and the indulgen of the Roman pontim. Nearly ali thela choraetera be-loning to the Angi Saxon period have been marhed