large number of letters. He is acknowledged as the most learned and polished man of his time, although his writings are chiefly compilations from older au- thors. The edition of Alcuin, published at Paris by Duchesne in 1G17, in one vol. fol., is divided into three parts. Contents of Part I (On Scripture) : 1. Tnterro- g itiones et responsiones, seu liber Qurvstionum in Genesim, containing 181 questions, with their answers, addressed to Sigulphus, his disciple and companion. The last question and reply are very much longer than the others, and were in after times included among the works of St. Augustine. They are also included, with some changes, in the third book of the Commentary on Genesis, attributed to St. Eucherius, bishop of Lyons. 2. Dicta super Mud Gencscos, " Faciamus Ifominem ad Imaginem. Nostrum." This has been printed among the works of St. Ambrose, with the title " Treatise on the Excellence of Man's Creation;" and also among the writings of St. Augustine, " Of the Creation of the Man." 3. Enchiridium sen Expos i tio p'a et brevis in vii Psalmos Panitentiales, in Psalm, crviii et in Psalmos Graduates ; addressed to Arno, archbishop of Salz- burg; printed at Paris, separately, in 1547, 8vo, but without the preface, which D'Achery has given in his Spieilegium (old ed. ix, 111, 116). 4. De Psalmorum Usu liber. 5. Officio: per Ferias, a kind of breviary, in which he marks in detail the Psalms to be said on every day of the week, together with hymns, prayers, confessions, and litanies. 6. Epistola de Mo Cantici Canticorum loco, " Sexaginta sunt Regime, ' ' etc. 7. Com- menturia in Ecclesiasten. 8. Commmtarium in S.Joh. Evangeli inn, libri vii, printed at Strasburg in 15?7. By the preface at the head of book vi, it appears that Al- cuin was at the time employed, by order of Charlemagne, in revising and correcting the Vulgate. Copies of this work in MS. are extant in the library at Vauxelles and at Rome : — Part II (Doctrine, Morals, and Disci- pline) : 1. De Fide S. Trinifafis libri in, ad Carolum M. cum Invoeatione ad S. Triv.i'atem et Symbolo Fide/. 2. De Trinitate ad Fi-idegicum Qiucstiones 28. 3. De Differ- entia cetemi et sempiterni, immortalis et perpetui jEvi et Tempmis, Epistolce. 4. De Animas Ratione, ad Eulaliam Virginem. 5. Contra Felicem Orgelitanum Episc. libri vii. This work was composed in A.D. 798, and in the Biblioth. Patrum is erroneously attributed to Paulinus of Aquilea. 6. Epistola ad Elipnndum (Bishop of To- ledo). 7. Epistola Elipnndi ad Alcuinum, a defence made by Elipandus. 8. Contra Elipandi Epistolam, libri iv; a reply to the above, addressed to Leidradus, archbishop of Lyons, Nephridius of Narbonne, Bene- dict, abbot of Anicana, and all the other bishops, ab- bots, and faithful of the province of the Goths. The Letter of Elipandus to Felix, and the Confession of Faith made by the latter after having retracted, arc added at the end. The above are all the dogmatical works contained in Part II ; the others are works on discipline. 1. De Divinis Officiis lib: r, sice E.rpositio Romani Ordinis. This work appears to have been er- roneously attributed to Alcuin, and to be the work of a later band ; indeed, it is a compilation made from authors, many of whom lived after his time, Midi as Remigius, a monk of Auxerre, and Helpericus, a monk of Saint-Gal, who lived in the eleventh century. 2. hi Ratione Septuagemmce, Sexagesimal, <t (luimquagesi- mce Epistola ; a letter to Charlemagne on this subject, and on the difference in the number of weeks in Lent, together with the emperor's reply. 3. De BapUsmi Catremoniis, ad Odu-ynum Presb. Epistola. 4. De iisdem Cerem. alia Epistola. Sirmondus attributes this to Amalarius, archbishop of Treves; and, as the writer speaks of himself as "archbishop," having "suffra- gans" under him, it cannot be the work of Alcuin, who was only deacon. It appears from this letter that triple immersion was in use at that period, as well as tin- custom of giving the holy eucharist and confir- mation to the newly baptized. 5. De Con/! ssione Pec- catorum, ad Pueros S. Martini Epistola. 6. Sacramen-
I torum Liber, containing the collects, secrets, prefaces, and post-communions for 32 different masses. 7. Hom-
1 Mm Hi. 8. Vita Antichristi, ad Carolum M. ; this is properly the work of Adso, abbot of Montier-en-Der. 9. De Virtutibus et Vitiis, addressed to Count Wido or Guido. This is one of the chief of the moral treatises of Alcuin, and is divided into 3G chapters. Various discourses, placed in the appendix to the works of St. Augustine, are taken from this treatise, viz., those numbered 254, 291, 297, 302, and 304 in the new edi- tion. 10. De vii Artibus liber wipeifectus, containing only what relates to grammar and rhetoric. The preface is the same with that which Cassiodorus puts at the head of his work on the same subject. 11. Grammatica. This was printed separately at Hanau in 1C05. 12. De Rhetorica et de Virtutibus Dialogus (Paris, 1599). 13. Dialectica. Like the last, is in the form of a dialogue between Alcuin and Charlemagne (Ingolstadt, 1G04). 14. Disputatio Regalis. A familiar dialogue between Pepin, afterward king of Italy, and
i Alcuin : — Part 1 1 1 (History, Letters, and Poetry) : 1. Scriptum de Vita S. Martini Turonensis. 2. De Tran- situ S. Martini Sermo. 3. Vita S. Vedasti Episopi . 1 1-