Montfort Manuscript (Codkx JIontfortia- xis, known as :\IS. Gl of the (Jospels, 34 of the Acts, 40 of the I'aidine Epistles, and 92 of Kevclation), so named from a Cambridge divine of the 17th century, who gave it to archbishop Uslier, by whom it was presented to Trinity College, Dublin, in the library of which it still remains (there designated as (J. 97) ; an octavo cursive Cireek MS. of the entire N. T., written in the 15th or l()th century, on 455 paper leaves, and famous as con- taining the text of "the three heavenly witnesses" (I John V, 7, that leaf being ghiztil to preserve it from in-
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jury). An earlier owner was William Clap, once a fel- low" of Cambridge, who derived it from Thomas Clem- ent, and originally it belonged to one Froy, a Franciscan friar. It is apparently the work of three or four suc- cessive scribes, perhaps in part at first independent of each other ; and the Apocalypse bears marks of having been copied from the Codex Leicestrensis. It is doubt- less the " Codex Britannicus" referred to by Erasmus as his sole authority for inserting the above disputed text in his edition of 1522, in accordance with a promise he had made to his detractors that if a single Greek IMS. could be found containing it he would add it. See Wit- nesses, THE Three Heavenly. It has the Ammonian sections, and the number of verses noted at the end of the MS., with the Latin division of chapters. There are many corrections by a more recent hand, erasures of the pen, "etc. An imperfect collation of it, while in Usher's hands, was printed in Walton's Polyglot. Dr. Banet collated the remainder for his edition of the Dublin pa- limpsest Z, and more recently Dr. Dobbin has pub- lished a complete collation (The Codex Monffortianus, etc., Loud. 1854).— Tregelles, in Home's Intrud. iv, 213 sq. ; Scrivener, Introd. to N. T. p. 1-19. See Manu- scripts, Biblical.
Montgaillard, Bernard de, also known as Petit Feuilliint, a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic noted for his great talent in pulpit oratory, but especially for the part he bore in the Roman Catholic intrigues against the Huguenots, was born at Montgaillard, in the diocese of Toulouse, in 1563. He commenced as a FeuUlant, or mendicant friar, in 1579, and began to preach im- mediately, though he had not studied divinity. He preached at Rieux, Rhodes, and Toulouse with so much success that they applied to him this passage in Holy Writ, "Happy is the womb which bare thee." He went to France at the time when Henry III drew the F'euillants thither, and so charmed the French court with his sermons that the king and queen-mother ap- pointed him to preach upon several particular occasions. Here he acquired the reputation of the most eminent preacher that had been known in the memory of man — so great were his talents for the pulpit, especially in moving the passions and subduing the heart. He condemned himself to so austere a way of life among the Feuillants that the pope commanded him to quit that order, lest he should shorten his days by it. He behaved himself furiously in supporting the interest of the League, and bore a considerable part in the horrible crimes of that villainous combination. " The preachers," says Maimbourg {Hist, de la Lir/iie, liv, iii, 295), " of whom the most noted were father Bernard de jNIontgail- lard, surnamed the Petit Feuillant, and the famous Cor- delier Feuardent, who preached in the parishes of Paris during the Christmas holidays, changed their sermons into invectives against the sacred person of the king," etc. Montgaillard is charged with having been instru- mental in inflaming the rebellious elements of his day, and with having suborned an assassin to murder Henry IV. jNIcintgaillard died in 1G28. He was at that time abbe of Orval. Such a saint as Montgaillard, and one who had done such singular services to the holy Church must needs have possessed qualities above the usual standard, and therefore the writers of his life have not hesitated to assert that God performed great miracles both in his favor and by his means. See Bayle, Diet. Hisf. s. V. ; Gen. Biogr. Diet. s. v. (.J. H. W.)