Lindsay Rudge PhD Thesis - University of St Andrews

that the subject matter of the manuscript deals with the same broad theme – monasticism
and the spiritual life – perhaps makes the possibility of separate circulation less likely.
A second manuscript containing the male recension of Vereor is Reims, Bibl.
Munic., ms. 414. It is a composite manuscript. The first part, ff. 1-48, is a ninth-century
copy of a hexameron of uncertain authorship. At the top of the first folio is a twelfth-
century ex libris: ‘Liber Sancti Theodorici; auferenti sit anathema’. The monastery of St
Thierry of Reims was founded c.500. 141 The remainder of the manuscript (ff. 49-111) is
of tenth-century date, but on the basis of content seems to divide itself again. In the first
section of this part are found Julian of Toledo’s Prognosticon and Gildas’ In reges
correptio. In the second part are found Caesarius’ twelve sermons to monks and the letter
Vereor, described in the incipit as an epistola ad quosdam germanos, which now lacks
two-thirds of its text. 142
The latest manuscript of the male version of Vereor is now Milan, Bibl. Ambros.,
ms. C 79 Sup., which dates from the third quarter of the twelfth century. A note on f. 1r
records the manuscript’s purchase in Lyon, and from that the catalogue editors deduce a
French provenance. 143 The first two-thirds of the manuscript contain Smaragdus of St
Mihiel’s Diadema monachorum, followed by the Sermo sancti Cesarii ad monachos
[Vereor]; a further sermon attributed to Caesarius but in fact the work of Eusebius
Gallicanus (homilia XXXVIII); two anonymous works, De septem vindictis Cain and
Nota de tribus Mariis; Ps. Bede’s Paenitentiale; the preface to a Paenitentiale
Cummeani; excerpts from Augustine and Bede on penitence; an anonymous De sacris
ritibus libri 4, which has its own chapter tables; and a mutilated copy of Innocent III’s
letter Licet quibusdam monachis.
Neither Morin nor de Vogüé has made explicit use of the remaining manuscripts
of the Sermo ad quosdam germanos. There are a further five: Douai, Bibl. Munic., ms.
141 Cottineau, II, cols. 2901-2.
142 CGM XXXVIII, 558-9.
143 L. Jordan and S. Wool (eds.) Inventory of Western manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana II, 111-3.
Unfortunately the Bibliotheca is unable to furnish any more details on provenance.
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