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S. Tafel
Conscriptus porro libellus mihi, si vita comes fuerit,
ostendatur, ut vestra in omnibus diligentia adprobetur.
.. oro itaque et te, pater, et omnes qui libello usuri
sunt, pro peccatis meis apud Iesum preces fundere, ut..
Florus' famous Collectanea of Canon Law (de coertione
Judeorum, et de auctoritate ac firmitate iudicii et testimonii
episcoporum), published by d'Achery from a lost Auxerre MS.
and preserved in a tenth century Milan MS. (Ambros. A 46
inf.), are undoubtedly taken from an extant codex, the half-
uncial Berlin 83 (Phill. 1745), the well-known MS. used by
Mommsen in his edition of the Code of Theodosius. For the
excerpted passages correspond exactly to passages marked
in the Berlin MS. So the Berlin MS. was at Lyons in Florus'
time. And these marks come from Florus' hand. The marked
passages have been carefully corrected — presumably Florus'
corrections. (Noteworthy is his change of b to p in compounds
like optestor, along with the commoner change of n to m in
compounds like commoned). Therefore the Berlin MS. gives
us knowledge of Florus' handwriting and of the marks used
by Florus in his excerption and correction of MSS. We find
these marks accompanying this handwriting in the marginalia
of many of the older MSS. now at Lyons. Precious traces,
after all these years, of this ninth century savant's library-
labour ! We find the same marks and handwriting in the
marginalia of some early MSS. at Paris and elsewhere. These
MSS. then were at Lyons in Florus' time; the}'' are strays
from Lyons. Most characteristic of the marks is the para-
graphia prefixed to marginalia. It has a gap at the angle,
and in the gap stands a dot. This, we ma)' say, is Florus'
sign-manual. Wherever it appears in ninth century margi-
nalia we may claim them for Florus-relics; of course with
most certainty when his characteristic handwriting is there
too. Often the word ' angle ' is unsuitable, for the two strokes
take the same direction.
Here is a list of the MSS. in which I have found such mar-
ginalia (and probabl}' there are more MSS. of the kind) :
(1) Lyons 484 (414) Florus on the Pauline Epistles, foil.
203, saec IX. This MS. may stand at the head of my list
since Delisle thought it might be an autograph-MS. of Florus.
But we can clearly distinguish two scribes (1. foil. l-63r
S. Tafel
Conscriptus porro libellus mihi, si vita comes fuerit,
ostendatur, ut vestra in omnibus diligentia adprobetur.
.. oro itaque et te, pater, et omnes qui libello usuri
sunt, pro peccatis meis apud Iesum preces fundere, ut..
Florus' famous Collectanea of Canon Law (de coertione
Judeorum, et de auctoritate ac firmitate iudicii et testimonii
episcoporum), published by d'Achery from a lost Auxerre MS.
and preserved in a tenth century Milan MS. (Ambros. A 46
inf.), are undoubtedly taken from an extant codex, the half-
uncial Berlin 83 (Phill. 1745), the well-known MS. used by
Mommsen in his edition of the Code of Theodosius. For the
excerpted passages correspond exactly to passages marked
in the Berlin MS. So the Berlin MS. was at Lyons in Florus'
time. And these marks come from Florus' hand. The marked
passages have been carefully corrected — presumably Florus'
corrections. (Noteworthy is his change of b to p in compounds
like optestor, along with the commoner change of n to m in
compounds like commoned). Therefore the Berlin MS. gives
us knowledge of Florus' handwriting and of the marks used
by Florus in his excerption and correction of MSS. We find
these marks accompanying this handwriting in the marginalia
of many of the older MSS. now at Lyons. Precious traces,
after all these years, of this ninth century savant's library-
labour ! We find the same marks and handwriting in the
marginalia of some early MSS. at Paris and elsewhere. These
MSS. then were at Lyons in Florus' time; the}'' are strays
from Lyons. Most characteristic of the marks is the para-
graphia prefixed to marginalia. It has a gap at the angle,
and in the gap stands a dot. This, we ma)' say, is Florus'
sign-manual. Wherever it appears in ninth century margi-
nalia we may claim them for Florus-relics; of course with
most certainty when his characteristic handwriting is there
too. Often the word ' angle ' is unsuitable, for the two strokes
take the same direction.
Here is a list of the MSS. in which I have found such mar-
ginalia (and probabl}' there are more MSS. of the kind) :
(1) Lyons 484 (414) Florus on the Pauline Epistles, foil.
203, saec IX. This MS. may stand at the head of my list
since Delisle thought it might be an autograph-MS. of Florus.
But we can clearly distinguish two scribes (1. foil. l-63r