Remigius.^1411 The object of these two books is not to produce history or criticism, but an edifying
work and to exalt the church of Rheims by exalting its patron. Perhaps also he would hint that the
gift which Chlodwig made to Remigius might be acceptably imitated.^1412
- Hincmar appears as a genuine historian in the third part of the Bertinian Annals,^1413 so
called because first published from a MS. found in the convent of St. Bertin. These Annals of the
West Frankish Kingdom begin with the year 741 and go down to 882. Hincmar wrote them from
861 to 882. He evidently felt the responsibility of the work he conducted, for he put every fact
down in a singularly impartial manner, especially when it is remembered that he was himself an
important part of contemporary history.^1414
- Letters.^1415 These are fifty-five in number, and are upon weighty matters; indeed they are
official documents, and not familiar correspondence. - Poems..^1416 They are very few and devoid of poetical merit^1417
§ 176. Johannes Scotus Erigena.
I. Johannes Scotus: Opera omnia, in Migne, Tom. CXXII. (1853). H. J. Floss prepared this edition,
which is more complete than any other, for Migne’s series. The De divisione naturae was
separately edited by C. B. Schlüter, Münster, 1838, who reprints in the same vol. (pp. 593–610)
thirteen religious poems of Scotus as edited by Cardinal Mai (Class. Auct. V. 426 sqq.). B.
Hauréau has edited Scotus’s commentary on Marcianus Capella, Paris, 1861; and Cardinal Mai,
his commentary on the Heavenly Hierarchy of Dionysius Areopagita in Appendix at opera edita
ab Mai, Rome, 1871. There is an excellent German translation of the De Div. Nat. by L. Noack
(Erigena über die Eintheilung der Natur, mit einer Schlussabhandlung Berlin, 1870–4, Leipzig,
1876, 3 pts.),
II. Besides the Prolegomena and notes of the works already mentioned, see Peder Hjort: J. S. E.,
oder von dem Ursprung einer christlichen Philosophie und ihrem heiligen Beruf, Copenhagen,
- F. A. Staudenmaier: J. S. E., u. d. Wissenschaft s. Zeit., vol. I. (all published),
Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1834. St. Réné Taillandier: S. E. et la philosophie scholastique,
Strasbourg, 1843. N. Möller: J. S. E. u. s. Irrthümer, Mayence, 1844. Theodor Christlieb Leben
u. Lehre d. J. S. E., Gotha, 1860; comp. also his article in Herzog,2 XIII. 788–804 (1884).
Johannes Huber: J. S. E. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie im
Mittelalter, Munich, 1861. A. Stöckl: De J. S. E., Münster, 1867. O. Hermens: Das Leben des
J. S. E., Jena, 1869. R. Hoffmann: De J. S. E. vita et doctrina, Halle, 1877 (pp. 37). Cf. Baur:
(^1411) Encomium ejusdem S. Remigii, ibid. col. 1187-1198.
(^1412) Ebert. l.c. p. 256.
(^1413) Annalium Bertinianorum pars tertia, Migne, CXXV. col. 1203-1302. Reprint f Pertz, "Monum. Germ. Hist. Script."
I. 455-515.
(^1414) Ebert, l.c. 367, 868.
(^1415) Epistolae, Migne, CXXVI. col. 9-280.
(^1416) Carmina, Migne, CXXV. col. 1201-1202. There are a few verses elsewhere in Migne, and a poem on the Virgin Mary
in Mai, "Class. auctori e Vaticanis codicibus, " 452 sqq.
(^1417) Ebert, l.c. 257.