in manual labor of various kinds. In the second book he treats in an elementary way of the seven
liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy).
- On Orthography,^993 a work of his ninety-third year,^994 and a mere collection of extracts
from the pertinent literature in his library. - The Soul,^995 written at the request of friends shortly after the publication of his Miscellany.
It is rather the product of learning than of thought. It treats of the soul, its nature, capacities and
final destiny. - Notes upon some verses in the Epistles, Acts of the Apostles, and Apocalypse^996 This
was a product of his monastic period, strangely forgotten in the Middle Age. It was unknown to
Garet, but found at Verona and published by Maffei in 1702. Besides these a Commentarium de
oratione et de octo partibus orationis is attributed to him and so published.^997 But its authorship is
doubtful.
§ 154. St. Gregory of Tours.
I. St. Georgius Florentius Gregorius: Opera omnia, in Migne, Tom. LXXI. (reprint of Ruinart’s ed.
Paris, 1699). The best critical edition of Gregory’s great work, Historiae Francorum libri decem,
is by W. Arndt and Br. Krusch. Hannover, 1884 (Gregorii Turonensis opera pars I. in "Scriptorum
rerum Merovingicarum," T. I., pars I. in the great "Monumenta Germaniae historica" series),
and of his other works that by H. L. Bordier, Libri miraculorum aliaque opera minora, or with
the French title, Les livres des miracles et autres opuscules de Georges Florent Grégoire, evêque
de Tours. Paris, 1857- 64, 4 vols., of which the first three have the Latin text and a French
translation on opposite pages, and the last, containing the De cursu stellarum and the doubtful
works, the Latin only. There are several translations of the Historia Francorum into French
(e.g., by Guizot. Paris, 1823, new ed. 1861, 2 vols.; by H. L. Bordier, 1859–61, 2 vols. ), and
into German (e.g., by Giesebrecht, Berlin, 1851, 2 vols., 2d ed., 1878, as part of Pertz,
"Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit"). The De cursu stellarum was discovered and first
edited by F. Hasse, Breslau, 1853.
II. The Lives of Gregory, by Odo of Cluny (d. 943, valuable, ) Migne, l.c., and by Joannes Egidius
(Jean Gilles of Tours, 16th cent., of small account) are given by Bordier, l.c. IV. 212–237.
Modern biographies and sketches of Gregory are: C. J. Kries: De Gregorii Turonensis Episcopi
vita et scriptis. Breslau, 1839. J. W. Löbell: Gregor von Tours. Leipzig, 1839, 2d ed. 1869.
Gabriel Monod: Grégorie de Tours, in Tome III." Bibliothèque de l’École des hautes études."
Paris, 1872 (pp. 21–146). Cf. Du Pin, V. 63. Ceillier, XI, 365–399. Hist. Lit. de la France, III.
372–397. Teuffel, pp. 1109–10. Wattenbach, I. 70 sqq. Ebert, I. 539–51. L. von Ranke:
Weltgeschichte, 4ter Theil, 2te Abtheilung (Leipzig, 1883), pp. 328–368, mainly a discussion
of the relation of Gregory’s Historia to Fredegar’s Historia Epitomata and to the Gesta regum
(^993) De orthographia. Migne, LXX., col. 1239-1270.
(^994) Prefatio. Ibid. col. 1241, 1. 9.
(^995) De anima. Ibid. col. 1279-1308.
(^996) Complexiones in Epistolas et Actus apostolorum necnon in Apocalypsim. Ibid. col. 1321-1418.
(^997) Ibid. col. 1219-1240.