21. Basilii episcopi Caesareae ex libro Eunomium. Qui vel modice considérât ...
LATIN CANONICAL COLLECTIONS
texts of Basil also used by Theodoret of Cyrus in the Eranistes.13 Two were from the HGrat. [4] 5, and the other from C. Eun. 2.14 Again, these canons are found in a well-known early ninth-century canon law manuscript from Corbie, Berlin DSB Phill. 1776.15
Basil's C. Eun., which was unknown in a Latin translation in the early Middle Ages except in fragments in our canonical collections, is also found embedded in the Edictum lustiniani Rectae fidei. This time, however, the extract is not from the genuinely Basil sections of C. Eun. but from book 4.16 Moreover, the Latin text of the Edictum with its Basil text is not found in well-known early medieval canon law collections, but in the fairly obscure ninth-century canon law manuscript, Montpellier
BEM 58 and Cambridge Pembroke Coll. 108 from Bury.17
It was perhaps from the Edictum lustiniani that this same extract from **C. Eun. 4 entered the text of the acts of the Second Council of Seville
(619).18 The extract, which is also found in the Florilegium ofLeontius of Byzantium.19 was embedded into the florilegium associated with the canons of the Council20 and was given wide broadcast in the early Middle
" 2.146. 3.244: ed. G. H. Ettlinger, Theodoret of Cyrus Eranistes (Oxford 1975) pp.
166. 239.
14 Testimonia veterum de duabus naturis in Christo, ed. Schwartz, Publiz. Sammlungen, pp. 99. 104: Gelasius de duabus naturis.
21. Basilii episcopi Caesareae ex libro Eunomium. Qui vel modice considérât ... palam universis insinuans. ( -C. Eun. 2. PG 29: 577.)
22. Eiusdem ex sermone gratiarum actionis. Quapropter deflens super amicum ... tristitiam insensate feramus. ( = HGrat. [A] 5, PG 31: 228; and for the Latin translation of this homily see CPG 2848.) 51. Basilii episcopi Caesariae de gratiarum actione. Sicut ergo suscepit famem ... humectationis onus egreditur. ( = HGrat. [A] 5. PG 31: 228 f.)
15 A. Siegmund, Die Überlieferung der griechischen christlichen Literatur (Munich
1949) p. 50 dates this MS as s. 8 ex.
16 Edictum lustiniani Rectae fidei. ed. Schwartz. Drei dogmatische Schriften Instituons
(Milan 1973) pp. 142 f.: Sed et sanctus Basilius in quarto libro contra Eunomium interpretans hoc quod est Dominus creavit me ... utriusque naturam existimantes. ( = **C.
Eun. A. PG 29: 704.) " On the Montpellier codex see Mordek. Kirchenrecht, p. 43, n. 32; and F. Maassen,
Geschichte der Quellen und der Literatur des canonischen Rechts (Graz 1870) p. 745. The Cambridge MS, which Schwartz dates as s. 10. was one of the few pre-Conquest books at Bury. It is primarily a collection of patristic texts, but has several canonistic texts.
18 Concilias Visigoticos e Hispano-Romanos. ed. J. Vives (Barcelona/Madrid 1963) p. 181 : Sanctus quoque Basilius in quarto libro contra Eunomium ita scribit Quid est:
"Dominus creavit ... in una persona ostenderef " See R. Devreese. "Le florilège de Léonce de Byzance," ReSR 10 (1930) 566, n. 3;
560, nr. 22).
20 On the florilegium of n Seville see J. Madoz, "El florilegio patristico del n Concilio de Sevilla (a. 619)." in Miscellanea Isidoriana (Rome 1936) esp. 205 f.