Volume 1

A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood.

Date:: [between 1890 and 1899?]

Credit: A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$lished, though some sheets of it were sent to Petrus de Marca in 1660 (Baluze on de Marca, de Concordia, I. ix. 7). It is almost certain that this suppression of the hook was due to its con- demnation of pope Honorius (^Professio Pontif. p. 41) as abetting heretics, a sentiment which seemed to Cardinal Bona, when the matter was submitted to him as president of the Congrega- tion of the Index, a perilous one. In the ponti- ficate, however, of Benedict XIII. (1724-1730) copies of the edition called of 1658 (really of 1650) were permitted to circulate. Meantime Jean Gamier published an edition of the Liber' Diurnus in quarto at Paris, in the year 1680. This seems to have been founded on the Paris MS. In 1685 Mabillon (J/ms. Ital. i. 75) saw at Rome the original MS. which had been copied for Holstenius, and finding in it- some formulae not contained in Garnier’s edition, inserted them in his Museum Italicum (i. pt. 2, pp. 32, 37), together with a selection of passages in which the reading of the MS. differed from that of Garnier’s edition. These additions and various readings were used by Hoffmann in pi'e- paring the edition which he inserted in his JSiova Collectio Scriptorum, vol. ii. pp. 1-268 (Leipzig, 1733). J. D. Schopflin in his Cummentationes Hist, et Crit. (Basil. 1741), pp. 502-524, having had access to a copy of the edition of Holstenius, noted almost all the places in which this differs from that of Gamier, and also added (pp. 525-530) those portions which are wanting in Garnier’s edition, omitting four paragraphs, for what reason is not apparent. The edition of Riegger (Vienna, 1762) is a mere reprint of the oi-iginal Paris edition. This is also I'eprinted in Migne’s Patt'ologia, vol. 105, with Mabillon’s additions. Gamier found the hundred and four formulae in the codex without arrangement or division into parts or chapters. He arranged the matter and divided it into seven chapter.s. Of these the first contains the proper forms for papal letters to the emperor, the empress, the patri- cian, the exarch, a consul, a king, a patriarch, etc.; the second treats of the election and conse- cration of a pojie, together with the proper forms of the letters to be written on such occasions to the emperor, the exarch, and other official per- sonages; the third, of the consecration by the pope of the suburbicarian bishops; in the fourth are four formulae for the bestowing of the Pal- lium ; the fifth contains twenty-one formulae for various transactions between the pope and the bishops of his own consecration; the sixth relates to the management of the estates of the Church; and the seventh to the granting of privileges to various ecclesiastical corporations, as monasteries and hospitals. The book contains matter of great interest both in a dogmatic and an archaeological point of view. The “ Professions ” of a newly elected pope refer to such matters as ecclesiastical tra- dition, the respect due to the creeds of Nicaea and Constantinople, the heresies to be abjured and condemned, the claims of the Roman primate. The particulars of the order to be observed and the persons to be informed, on a vacancy of the papal see, are brought into clearer light by this document than by any other of so early a date. Much is learned as to the relation between the pope and the bishops of his own archdiocese. and also between the pope and the metropolitang who owned his jurisdiction, as to the conditions and the periods of ordination generally, to the residence of bishops, to the care and distribution of the pro| erty of tl^e church ; as to the different classes of churches—basilicas, tituli, oratories, and the like—their consecration, their endow- ment, and the offices to be performed in them; and as to the care of the sick and poor. In a word, a considerable portion of the ecclesiastical —especially the Roman ecclesiastical—life of the 8th century, or thereabouts, receives illus- tration from the Liber Diurnus. (See Garnier’s preface to the Liber Diurnus [Migne, Patrol, cv. pp. 11-22]; and Zaccaria’s Dissert, de L. D., in his Biblioth. P t. t. ii. sec. ii. pp. ccxxix.-ccxcvi., Rome, 1781 ; and in Migne, cv. pp. 1361-1404. The most recent edition is that by Eug. de Rozifere; Paris, 1869.) [C.] LIBERA NOS. The amplification of the petition “ Deliver us from evil,” in the Lord’s Prayer, found in almost all liturgies. For in- stance, that of the Gallican (which is variable), is on Christmas Day—“Libera nos, omnipotens Deus, ab omni malo et custodi nos in omni opere bono, perfecta veritas et vera libertas Deus, qui regnas in saecula saeculorum.” That of St. James’s Liturgy is given under Embolismus [1. 609]. Many liturgies contain supplications for the intercession of saints in the Libera nos. [Intercession, I. 844.] . [C.] LIBERALIS (1) Martyr of Alexandria ; commemorated April 24 (^Mart. Hieron.; Acta SS. Apr. iii. 265). [C. H.] (2) Of Altinum in Venetia, confessor, circ. A.D. 400; commemorated April 27 (Usuard. Auct.; Acta SS. Apr. iii. 489). [C. H.] LIBERATA (1) Of Ticinum (Pavia), circ. A.D. 500; commemorated Jan. 16 (Acfa SS. Jan. ii. 32). [C. H.] (2) Of Mons Calvus (Chaumont), 6th century; commemorated Feb. 3 (Usuard. Auct.; Acta SS. Feb. iii. 361). [C. H.] (3) Of Comum (Ccmo), virgin and martyr, circ. A.D. 580 ; commemorated Jan. 18 {Acta ^6'. Jan. ii. 196). (C. H.] LIBERATUS (1) Of Amphitrea (unknown); commemorated Dec. 20 {Mart. Usuard.) [C. H.] (2) Abbat and martyr, circ. A.D. 483; com- memorated in Africa Aug. 17 (Usuard. Auct.; Acta SS. Aug. iii. 455). [C. H.] (3) Physician and martyr, circ. A.D. 484; commemorated in Africa Mar. 23 {Acta SS. Mar. iii. 461). [C. H.] LIBERIUS (1) Archbishop of Ravenna, circ. A.D. 200; commemorated April 29 (Usuard. Auct.; Acta SS. Apr. iii. 614). [C. H.] (2) (Liberus, Libus) Bishop ; commemorated at Rome May 17 {Hard. Hieron.; Acta SS. May iv. 26). [C. H.] (3) Bishop of Rome ; commemorated Sept. 23 {Mart. Hieron., Ado, Append.; Usuard. Aitct. ; Acta, SS. Sept. vi. 572); Tagmen 4=Aug. 27, and Tekempt 7 = Oct. 4 (Neale, Cal. PJthiop.)] Aug. 27 and Oct. 6 (Daniel Cod. Liturg.). [C. H.]$