THE HE history of this book may be briefly told. In 1888 I obtained one of the last prizes given by Bishop Lightfoot to the Junior Clergy of Durham for an Essay on the Athanasian Creed. The Examiners encouraged me to continue my studies in this subject to which I have now devoted most of my spare time for seven years. The problem of the early history of the Creed presents difficulties which only those can gauge who have tried to test the various theories on the subject by digging down to its roots. I do not claim to have solved it, but I hope to succeed in vindicating the main argument of Dr Waterland in his classical History of the Creed. My obligations to books are stated in the footnotes, but my best thanks for help by letters are due to Rev. G. D. Ommanney, Dr Fäh, Dr Kattenbusch, Dr von Laubmann, Dom G. Morin, Rev. T. B. Strong, and Prof. Swete; for help in research to the authorities of the Libraries at Cologne, Frankfurt, Mainz, St Gallen, Munich, the British Museum, Durham, Lambeth, York, and both the University and College Libraries at Oxford and Cambridge; for answers to enquiries to the Librarians at Bamberg, Berne, Cambrai, Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, Dresden, Grasse, Leyden, Orleans, Paris, Reichenau, and Trèves. My thanks are also due to the Professors of Divinity at Cambridge to whom the book was submitted as a dissertation for the degree of B.D. I regret that through the death of Prof. Lumby I lost the advantage of criticism from him. Above all I must thank Prof. J. A. Robinson, who examined my original essay and has helped me continuously and most kindly with suggestions and criticism. CONTENTS. § 1. Introductory. Dr Waterland's view. Dr Swainson and his two- portion theory, supported by Dr Lumby and Prof. Harnack; the objections of Mr Ommanney and Dr Heurtley. Plan of the Essay. § 2. MSS. of the 8th and 9th centuries. Paris B. N. 13,159. Paris B. N. 1451. Paris B. N. 4858. Milan O. 212 sup. Utrecht Psalter. § 3. Testimonies of the 8th and 9th centuries: Hincmar, Riculfus, Ratramn, Aeneas, Theodulf, Benedict d'Aniane, Agobard, Florus the Deacon. Canons of unknown Synod: Anskar, Haito, Boniface, Libellus de Trinitate, Ps-Gennadius, De Fide, Synodus Orietana. § 4. External evidence alleged for the two-portion theory. (1) Vienna мs. 1261. (2) Profession of Denebert. (3) The Trèves fragment. § 5. The three assumptions underlying the two-portion theory: (i) the silence of Paulinus, Alcuin, Rabanus Maurus, (ii) the supposed authority of the document as from the hand of Athanasius, (iii) the assumption that the CHAPTER II. Early Commentaries. An increased number now known. 1. The Bouhier Commentary. 2. The Orleans Commentary. 3. The Stavelot Commentary. 4. The Paris Commentary. 5. The Oratorian Commentary. 6. The Troyes Commentary. 7. The Fortunatus Commentary, found in two recensions. (1) History of the text. The MSS. (2) Internal evidence: (a) heresies named, (b) the 'sixth milliary.' The authorship attributed to (i) Venantius Fortunatus, (ii) Euphronius of Autun. (3) The form of text of the Quicunque Note on G, a lost Ms. of the Fortunatus Commentary. CHAPTER III. Date and Authorship of the Creed. Internal Evidence. Augustinian and pp. lxxii-xcix TEXTS AND ADDITIONAL NOTES. Page ADDENDA. p. lxiv. Dom Morin has kindly sent me the following note: "Deux autres notes chronologiques écrites au VIIe siècle font finir le 'sextum miliarium' avec le huitième siècle (à la fin de l'an 800): 1o Cod. Bodl. e Mus. 113 (olim. 94), fol. 114 et 115; 2o Cod. Wirceburg MP. th. f. 28, fol. 68." p. 3. I owe to M. S. Berger's Histoire de la Vulgate the reference to a Psalter at Amiens, No. 18, of the 8th or early 9th century. The text of the Quicunque is cut short by a torn page at clause 22, the word genitus. The Librarian, M. Henri Michel, kindly informs me that the only variation from my text is the spelling relegione. |