1 rebotensis ; written about 796, at the request of the ab- bot Rado. •A.Vita Beatissimi Richardi, Presbyteri. 5. De Vita S. Wilhbrordi Tvajectensis Epis. libri ii. 6. One hundred and fifteen letters, exclusive of many fragments of letters given by William of Malmesbury. 7. Pocmata et Versus de pJuribus SS. Many of these,
I however, are erroneously attributed to Alcuin. Since Duchesne's edition, the following have been printed : 1. Treatise of the Procession of the Holy Spirit. This
; work is divided into three parts. In Part I he. shows that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and from the Son ; in Part II that He is the Spirit of the Father and of the Son ; and in Part III that He is sent by the Father and by the Son. It is dedicated to Charle- magne ; but as the name of Alcuin nowhere appears
' in the book, the only ground for believing it to lie the
; work of Alcuin is the act of donation by which Didon,
: bishop of Laon (who was nearly contemporary with Alcuin), gave the MS. of the work to his cathedral church, prohibiting its ever being taken away from the library of that clmrch under pain of incurring the anger of God and the Blessed Virgin. This may prob- ably be the cause why the work w»s so long con- cealed. 2. Various letters — three of which are given by D'Achery, in his Spieilegium.; one in the Irish let- ters of Archbishop Usher, published at Paris in 1665; two in the 5th volume of the Acts of the order of St. Benedict; three given by Baluze, in his Miscellany; twenty-six by Mabillon, in his Analecta, together with a poem, in elegiac verses. Baluze also gives Epistola ct Prafatio in libros vii, ad Felicem Orgelitanum, iv, 413. 3. Two poems published by Lambecius. 4. Ho- milia de, die natali S. Vedasti (Bollandus, February, p. 800). 5. Libri Quatuor Carollni >!■ Tmaginibus, at- tributed by Roger dc Hoveden, in his Annals, to Al- cuin. 6. Poema Heroicum de Pontficibus Anglis et SS. Eeclesiw Eboracensis, containing 1658 verses. Thomas Gale, dean of York, caused this to be printed from two
' MSS. Oudinus attributes this poem to Fridegodus, a Benedictine, who lived about 960. 7. Commentaries
! Brevis in Cantica Canticorum. Cave and others regard this as the same originally with the explication of the text, "Sexaginta sunt reginse," etc., in the first part of Duchesne's volume. 8. Breviarium filei adversus A rianos, by Sirmondus (Paris, 1630) ; attributed to Al- cuin by Chifilet, on the authority of a MS. 9. The cat- alogue of the library of Centula mentions a Lcctionary, indicating the epistles and gospels for every festival and day in the year, which was corrected and put in order by Alcuin. This is given by Pamelius in his collection of liturgical works (Cologne, 1561, 1571, and 1609, p. 1309). 10. A Booh of Homilies, attributed to Alcuin by the author of his life, although probably ho only corrected the Homiliary of Paul, the deacon,
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which was in two volumes, as well as that attributed to Aleuin. If the latter wrote a homiliary, it has not yet seen the light. (See Mabillon, Analecta, p. 18.) The Book of Homilies attributed to Aleuin, but really the work of Paul, was printed at Cologne in 1539. 11. Confessio Fidei ; published as the work of Aleuin, with other treatises by Chifflet, at Dijon, 1050, 4to. It has been doubted by some writers whether Aleuin was really the author. Mabillon (Analecta, i, 178, or 490 in the folio edition) gives proofs to show that he was so, one of which is, that the MS. itself from which Chifflet printed it assigns it to him by name. Besides all these works, some of the writings of Aleuin have been lost, others still remain in MS. only, and others again have been erroneously ascribed to him. Some of them have been recently discovered by Pertz. — See Monnier, Aleuin and Charlemagne (with fragments of an unpublished commentary of Aleuin on St. Matthew, and other pieces, published for the first time (Paris, 2d ed. 1864, 32mo) ; Biog. Univ. i, 466 ; Pochard and Gi- raud, who cite Ceillier, Hist, des A ut. Sacr. and Eccl. xviii, 248 ; Landon, Eccl. Diet. s. v. ; Cave, Hist. Lit. ann. 780 ; Mosheim, Ch. Hist. c. viii, pt. ii, ch. ii, § 18 ; Christian Rev. vi, 357 ; Presb. Rev. Oct. 1862.
Alden, Noah, a Baptist minister, was born at Middleborough, Mass., May 30, 1725. At 19 he mar- ried and removed to Stafford, Conn., connecting him- self at that time with the Congregational Church. In 1753 he became a Baptist, and was ordained in 1755 pastor of the Baptist church in Stafford. In 1766 Mr. Alden was installed pastor of the church in Bellint:- ham, Mass. ; from which place he was sent as a dele- gate to the convention which formed the constitution of the state. He was also a member of the conven- tion to which was submitted the Constitution of the U. S. Mr. Alden remained pastor at Bellingham un- til his death in 1797. — Sprague, Annals, vi, 67.
Alden, Timothy, was born at Yarmouth, Mass., Aug. 28, 1771, and graduated in 1794 at Harvard, where he was distinguished for his knowledge of Oriental languages. In 1799 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Portsmouth, N. H., but in 1805 devoted himself to teaching. He conduct- ed female schools successively in Boston, Newark, New York, and in 1817 was appointed president of Meadville College, Penn., which office he held till 1831. He died at Pittsburg, 1839. He published a number of occasional sermons and pamphlets. — Sprague, Annals, ii, 452.