36–43). All should come to church to celebrate mass and hear the preaching, and no one should
eat before communicating (c. 46). 2. To the same, a treatise upon sins and their ecclesiastical
punishment; and upon the administration of extreme unction.^1151 3. The Holy Spirit.^1152 The collection
of patristic passages in defense of the Filioque, made by order of Charlemagne (809), as mentioned
above. It has a metrical dedication to the emperor. 4. The ceremony of baptism,^1153 written in 812
in response to Charlemagne’s circular letter on baptism which Magnus, archbishop of Sens
(801–818), had forwarded to him. It consists of eighteen chapters, which minutely describe all the
steps in the ceremony of baptism. 5. Fragments of two sermons.^1154
The Poetical works of Theodulph are divided into six books.^1155 The first is entirely devotedto one poem; The exhortation to judges,^1156 in which besides describing a model judge and exhorting
all judges to the discharge of their duties he relates his own experiences while missus and thus
gives a most interesting picture of the time.^1157 The second book contains sixteen pieces, including
epitaphs, and the verses which he wrote in the front of one of his illuminated Bibles giving a
summary in a line of each book, and thus revealing his Biblical scholarship. The verses are prefaced
in prose with a list of the books. The third book contains twelve pieces, including the verses to
Gisla already mentioned. The fourth book contains nine pieces, the most interesting of which are
c.1 on his favorite authors, and c.2 on the seven liberal arts,—grammar, rhetoric, dialectics,
arithmetic, music, geometry and astrology. The fifth book contains four pieces: Consolation for
the death of a certain brother, a fragment On the seven deadly sins, An exhortation to bishops, and
four lines which express the evangelical sentiment that only by a holy life is heaven gained; without
it pilgrimages avail nothing. The sixth book contains thirty pieces. Ten other poems appear in an
appendix in Migne.^1158
§ 162. St. Eigil.
I. Sanctus Eigil, Fuldensis abbas: Opera, in Migne, Tom. CV. col. 381–444. His Carmina are in
Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, ed. Dümmler I. 2 (Berlin, 1881).
II. S. Eigilis vita auctore Candido monacho Fuldensi, in Migne CV. col. 383–418. Hist. Lit. de la
France, IV. 475–478. Ceillier, XII. 272, 273. Ebert, II. Cf. Carl Schwartz: Uebersetzung und
Bemerkungen zu Eigil’s Nachrichten über die Gründung und Urgeschichte des Klosters Fulda.
Fulda, 1858.
Eigil was a native of Noricum, the name then given to the country south of the Danube, around
the rivers Inn and Drave, and extending on the south to the banks of the Save. In early childhood,
probably about 760, he was placed in the famous Benedictine monastery of Fulda in Hesse, whose
(^1151) Capitulare ad eosdem, ibid. col. 207-224.
(^1152) De Spiritu Sancto, ibid. col. 239-276.
(^1153) De ordine baptismi ad Magnum Senonensem libri, ibid. col. 223-240.
(^1154) Fragmenta sermonum duorum, ibid. col. 275-282.
(^1155) Carmina, ibid. col. 283-380. Ebert (l.c. pp. 73-84) analyzes these poems at length.
(^1156) Peraenesis ad Judices, ibid. col. 283-300.
(^1157) Cf. H. Hagen: Theodulfi episcopi Aurelianensis de iudicibus versus recogniti, Bern, 1882 (pp 31).
(^1158) Ibid. col. 377-380.